Pamela “Sat Siri” Austin Sumler, LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT, Oral History Interview, September 10, 2018

Authors

• Pamela Sat Siri Sumler LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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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

9-10-2018

Publisher

The Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection, The University of Texas MD Anderson 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

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.

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, September 10, 2018" (2018). Interview Sessions. 172.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/172

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Open