Carmen Escalante, MD, Oral History Interview, May 14, 2014
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Research: deep venous thrombosis, dyspnea and risk models, cancer-related fatigue
- Clinical activities in the chemotherapy service
- Establishing: the Cancer Fatigue Clinic, the Inpatient Hospitalist Program,
- Creation of the Department of General Internal Medicine
- The Emergency Medical Service
- The Chemotherapy Clinic
Interview Chapters
Chapter 13: General Internal Medicine: From a Section to A Division and Department
Chapter 14: Section Chief and Department Head: Learning to Lead
Chapter 15: A New Department is Created: Growing the Department
Chapter 16: The Hospitalist Program
Chapter 17: Developing Educational Initiatives in the Department of Internal Medicine
Chapter 18: Developing Station 19 and the Emergency Medical Center
Chapter 19: A Chemotherapy Clinic to Serve the World’s Largest Ambulatory Clinic Center
Identifier
EscalanteCP_02_20140314
Publication Date
5-14-2014
Publisher
The Historical Resources Center, Research Medical Library, The University of Texas Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Topics Covered
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas System. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Escalante, Carmen MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Carmen Escalante, MD, Oral History Interview, May 14, 2014" (2014). Interview Sessions. 122.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/122
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About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Carmen Escalante, M.D. (b. 30 August 1959, Raceland, Louisiana) joined the faculty of MD Anderson in 1988 as an instructor in the Section of General Internal Medicine. She has served as Chair of the Department of General Internal Medicine since 2005. Dr. Escalante was involved in the first initiatives to set up a formal General Internal Medicine service at MD Anderson. Her research has focused on deep venous thrombosis; dyspnea and the development of risk models that predict imminent death for acutely ill patients with this condition; cancer-related fatigue. In 1998 she set up the first clinic for cancer fatigue in the nation.