Louise Villejo, MPH, MCHES, Oral History Interview, May 7, 2015
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Description
Major topics covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Development of leadership and activist perspective
- The Patient Education Office: history, evolution, functions
Interview Chapters
Chapter 01: A Family that Modeled Service to Others
Chapter 02: College, Activism, and a First Taste of Leadership
Chapter 03: Working with Community Health Centers
Chapter 04: A Masters in Public Health and a Focus on Education
Chapter 06: The Patient Education Office in the Eighties; Services Provided and Funding Challenges
Chapter 07: Expanding the Patient Education Office: The Learning Centers
Identifier
VillejoL_01_20150507
Publication Date
5-7-2015
Publisher
The Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection, The University of Texas MD Anderson 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
Villejo, Louise and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Louise Villejo, MPH, MCHES, Oral History Interview, May 7, 2015" (2015). Interview Sessions. 269.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/269
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About the Interview
About the interview subject:
Ms. Villejo came to MD Anderson in 1982 as a health educator in the Patient Education Office. She advanced quickly to Director and has been known in the institution for creating innovative, patient-responsive educational materials and for imbedding patient education into the provider culture. Until her retirement this year, she served as Executive Director of the Patient Education Office.