Donna K. Sollenberger, Oral History Interview, September 27, 2013
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Division of Surgery and Anesthesiology; developing collaborative/efficient operations
- Vice President for Hospitals and Clinics; roles, initiatives, perspective on institution
- Leadership: development of skills; stories of leadership challenges
- Institutional reorganization in the 1990s
- Financial challenges and managed care in the 1990s
- Developing a “customer focused” culture
- The Aim for Excellence Program
- Women in healthcare leadership
Interview Chapters
Chapter 01: Stimulated By Challenging Situations; Building a Career as a Woman
Chapter 02: An Institution on the Rise Provides New Opportunities
Chapter 05: An Encouraging and Supportive Father
Chapter 06: Serving as the VP of Hospitals and Clinics: Budget Stresses and Impact on Employees
Chapter 07: Confronting Managed Care
Chapter 08: Responding to Managed Care: Moving Toward multi-disciplinary Patient-Centered Care
Chapter 09: Turning MD Anderson Around Through the Aim For Excellence Program
Chapter 10: Changes When John Mendelsohn Arrives
Identifier
SollenbergerDK_01_20130927
Publication Date
9-27-2013
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
Sollenberger, Donna K. and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Donna K. Sollenberger, Oral History Interview, September 27, 2013" (2013). Interview Sessions. 265.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/265
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About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Donna K. Sollenberger (b. 14 January 1949, Tuscola, Illinois) currently serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the University of Texas Medical Branch Health System in Galveston Texas. However, in 1991, she came to MD Anderson to serve as Division Administrator for the Division of Surgery and Anesthesiology. She remained in that role until 1993, when she became MD Anderson’s interim Vice President for Hospitals and Clinics, a position that became permanent the next year and that she held until 1997. She was the first woman to hold the position of vice president.