Linda Elting, PhD, MPH, Oral History Interview, March 5, 2015
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Research on treatment for infections, value of care, effects of health policy, Texas health care systems
- Training clinicians and researchers to take a population focus on treatment and care delivery
Interview Chapters
Chapter 08: A Study of Thrombosis Opens New Research Niche in Side Effects
Chapter 09: Departing from Epidemiology and Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Studies
Chapter 10: Research on Health Effects of Policy Decisions and a Study of Childhood ALL
Chapter 11: Providing Data to Inform Policy Makers
Chapter 12: Training Laboratory and Clinical Researchers in a Populations Perspective
Identifier
EltingLE_02_20150305
Publication Date
3-5-2015
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
Elting, Linda E. MPh and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Linda Elting, PhD, MPH, Oral History Interview, March 5, 2015" (2015). Interview Sessions. 114.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/114
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About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Linda S. Elting (b. 10 February 1951, Houston, Texas) came to came to MD Anderson in 1970, working in coding and data collection in the Department of Epidemiology. She joined the faculty in 1991 as an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology and today holds joint appointments in the Department of Biostatistics & Applied Mathematics, the Department of Health Services Research, and the Department of Health Disparities Research. Dr. Elting is best known for conducting research on the value of care and the effects of health policy on delivery of care. Trained as an epidemiologist, Dr. Elting has brought a populations-based focus to research on MD Anderson patients and Texas cancer patients in general.
Dr. Elting retired to part time in January 2014. She served as Chief of the Section of Health Services Research in the Department of Biostatistics and Applied Mathematics from 2001 until her retirement. She worked with MD Anderson’s Institutional Review Boards for many years and served as Chair of IRB IV, created to review protocols for non-clinical and community based research.