Pamela “Sat Siri” Austin Sumler, LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT, Oral History Interview, May 1, 2018
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Education and personal background; experience of cancer and disease; spirituality and meaning
- Meditation and yoga as a life practice and spiritual orientation; massage, meditation, and teaching as spiritual practices
- Massage for oncology patients; working with patients undergoing treatment; developing guidelines for massage;
- Massage at MD Anderson; building a service and its evolution; developing acceptance/addressing resistance of patients and clinicians; developing a training program for massage therapists
- Stories of work with patients
- Participation in research studies
- Hope for the future of alternative medicine under Peter Pisters
Publication Date
5-1-2018
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
Sumler, Pamela Sat Siri LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Pamela “Sat Siri” Austin Sumler, LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT, Oral History Interview, May 1, 2018" (2018). Interview Sessions. 171.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/171
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About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Pamela “Sat Siri” Austin Sumler (b. April 23, 1958, New Haven, Connecticut) came to MD Anderson on a contract basis in 1999 to provide patients with massage through the Integrative Medicine Program. She is a board certified in therapeutic massage and bodywork, a licensed massage therapy instructor, certified lymphedema therapist and an experienced teacher in the field of yoga. Since 2003 she has been a massage therapist offering her services through the Department of Integrative Medicine. She helped developed a massage training curriculum. In 2018 she received an Outstanding Employee Award from the University of Texas Board of Regents; in August 2017 she earned a Heart of MD Anderson Award.