Kay L. Hermes, Oral History Interview, January 22, 2018
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background and education
- Comments on post WWII culture; life of young women in the 50s, 60s
- The Department of Epidemiology: early years, work processes in the 60s, 70s
- Perspectives on Eleanor MacDonald, PhD: impact on the institution; leadership; gifts as an analyst; acceptance of as a leaders, as an epidemiologist
- The Texas Cancer Registry Project: data collection; use of data; travels in Texas to collect data; training of individuals at hospitals to collect data
- Perspectives on R. Lee Clark, MD, Clifton Mountain, MD
- Work on lung cancer staging studies
Identifier
HermesKL_01_20180122
Publication Date
1-22-2018
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
Hermes, Kay L. and Rosolowksi, Tacey A. PhD, "Kay L. Hermes, Oral History Interview, January 22, 2018" (2018). Interview Sessions. 203.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/203
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About the Interview
About the Interview Subject
Mrs. Kay Hermes1 (b. 6 August 1928, Fargo North Dakota, née Loram) came to MD Anderson in 1950 and worked for epidemiologist Eleanor MacDonald, PhD [oral history interview and video interviews] until 1956, when she took a hiatus from work to raise a family. She returned to MD Anderson in 1973 to assist Clifton Mountain, MD with his research on lung cancer staging. She worked with him until his retirement from MD Anderson in 1993 and continued to assist him as researcher in a freelance capacity as after he left the institution.