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
Interview Chapters
Chapter 21: Changes for Women at MD Anderson
Chapter 23: Refining Policies While Serving on Executive Committee of the Medical Staff
Chapter 24: A Girl Scout Leader Pursues Her Passion for Women’s Advancement
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
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 23, 2014" (2014). Interview Sessions. 121.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/121
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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.