Carmen Escalante, MD, Oral History Interview, May 23, 2014

Carmen Escalante, MD, Oral History Interview, May 23, 2014

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Description

Major Topics Covered:

  • Roles heading the Department of Internal Medicine
  • Experiences as a woman professional in medicine
  • Evolving status of women at MD Anderson

Identifier

EscalanteCP_03_20140523

Publication Date

5-23-2014

Publisher

The Historical Resources Center, Research Medical Library, The University of Texas Cancer Center

City

Houston, Texas

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 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

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.

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Carmen Escalante, MD, Oral History Interview, May 23, 2014

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