Carmen Escalante, MD, Oral History Interview, March 6, 2014
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Evolution and growing acceptance of the internist’s role at MD Anderson
- Research: deep venous thrombosis, dyspnea and risk models, cancer-related fatigue
Interview Chapters
Chapter 01: A Sketch of a Family
Chapter 02: Encouraged to Get an Education and Leave a Small Town
Chapter 03: Deciding to Practice General Internal Medicine
Chapter 04: Selecting a Medical School
Chapter 05: Uncertain about a Career at MD Anderson
Chapter 06: The New Section of General Internal Medicine in the Late Eighties
Chapter 07: Choosing to Stay at MD Anderson
Chapter 08: Learning to Build a Research Career
Chapter 09: Research into Dyspnea
Chapter 10: Research into Cancer-Fatigue
Chapter 11: Research into Venous Thrombosis
Chapter 12: Research on Hypertension, A Side Effect of Inhibitors
Identifier
EscalanteCP_01_20140306
Publication Date
3-6-2014
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, March 6, 2014" (2014). Interview Sessions. 123.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/123
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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.