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Wright State University Department of Music is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)

Wright State University Department of Music is a proud OMEA

4th Annual Music & Medicine Symposium
When: Tuesday and Wednesday
September 11 & 12, 2012
   
Where: Schuster Hall, Creative Arts Center, Wright State University
   
Sponsors: WSU Department of Music
WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine


Although music is considered an art and medicine a science, there is a scientific basis to music and an “art” to medicine. This symposium showcases the WSU collaborative program between the Department of Music and School of Medicine.

Registration

The program is open to the entire WSU and surrounding community. Admission is free, but space is limited. Register via email. Send the following information:

  1. Name
  2. Any special dietary needs for lunch (lunch is provided free, compliments of the Boonshoft School of Medicine)

Send this information to music@wright.edu, with the subject line "Music and Medicine Registration".

To insure you are registered and will receive a lunch, registrations need to be emailed by Thursday, September 6, 2012.

 
Biographies of Guest Performers

 

Program

The Concert
Tuesday, September 11
Schuster Hall, Creative Arts Center
7:00 pm

Featuring PBS’s Hallelujah Broadway stars Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke, along with Boonshoft School of Medicine faculty and colleagues

     

The Symposium:
The Symposium: Professionalism in Medicine and Music

Wednesday, September 12, 2011, 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Schuster Hall, Creative Arts Center

8:30am Welcome

 

8:45am The Symposium: Professionalism in Medicine and Music

David Bronson, M.D.
President,
Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals
President,
American College of Physicians

9:30am

A Literary History of Medical Professionalism

Barry Milligan, Ph.D.
Interim Chair and Professor of English, Wright State University Department of English    Language and Literatures

10:00am Stories from the Trenches—Professionalism in Music

Rodrick Dixon
and Alfreda Burke

10:30a.m Break  
10:45am Personal Development of Professionalism

Nicholas Rizzo, M.D.
Instructor, Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

11:15am Physician as Patient—What Do Doctors and Their Families Look for in Their Physicians?

J. Walton Tomford, M.D.
Staff Physician, Infectious Diseases
Department,
Cleveland Clinic
Gretchen Hallerberg
Director, Cleveland Clinic Alumni Library

11:45am Lunch  
12:30pm

Master Class, Vocal Music

 
1:45pm

Break

 
2:00pm

Panel Discussion: Teaching Professionalism

Randall Paul, D.M.A.
Alfreda Burke
Roderick Dixon
Howard Part, M.D.
Virginia Wood, M.D.

3:30pm WSU Student Performance  
4:15 pm End