Pamela “Sat-Siri” Austin Sumler, LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT, Oral History Interview, May 01, 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
Interview Chapters
Chapter 01: A Child with a Different Perspective
Chapter 02: Scoliosis Changes Life and Perspective
Chapter 03: Exploring Massage and Raja Yoga; Cancer is a New Health Challenge
Chapter 04: Massage and Cancer Patients: A Contemplative Practice
Chapter 05: Bringing Massage to the Place of Wellness and Integrative Medicine
Chapter 06: Massage: Benefits to Patients
Chapter 07: Training Massage Therapists and Building Institutional Acceptance for Massage
Identifier
SumlerPSS_01_20180501
Publication Date
5-1-2018
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
Recommended Citation
Sumler, Pamela Sat Siri and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Pamela “Sat-Siri” Austin Sumler, LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT, Oral History Interview, May 01, 2018" (2018). Interview Sessions. 27.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/27
Conditions Governing Access
Open
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.