Chapter 16: As Physician in Chief: Building the Survivorship Program and Pharmacy Support
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In this chapter, Dr. Burke first explains that he hired Alma Rodriquez to head the Survivorship Program and gave her a mandate to build that program. One of the first projects undertaken was information gathering to discover what issues and needs patients had as they entered survivorship and long-term survivorship. Dr. Burke describes the feedback from patients and how the Program went about addressing those needs. He notes that today the Survivorship Clinics see thousands of patients. He explains his hope that a freestanding survivorship clinic will be built someday (the institution was closed twice).
Next, Dr. Burke explains the complexity of pharmacy needs at MD Anderson, how these have been addressed, and how his office is currently building a training program in cancer related pharmacy.
Identifier
BurkeTW_02_20140318_C16
Publication Date
3-18-2014
Publisher
The Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
Interview Session
Topic Covered
The Interview Subject's Story - The Administrator; The Administrator; Building/Transforming the Institution; Patients; Patient, Treatment, Survivors; Offering Care, Compassion, Help; Discovery and Success; This is MD Anderson; Understanding the Institution; The History of Health Care, Patient Care; MD Anderson Culture; MD Anderson Mission and Values
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Burke, Thomas W. MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Chapter 16: As Physician in Chief: Building the Survivorship Program and Pharmacy Support" (2014). Interview Chapters. 932.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/932
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Open
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