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The 1st Annual Wright State University Music and Medicine Symposium: Improvisation in Music, Medicine, and Life

When: Monday, June 1, 2009, from Noon to 6:00 pm
   
Where: Gandhi Auditorium, White Hall, 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.

The program is open to the entire WSU and surrounding community. Admission is free.

 
Biographies of Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke
 

Program

Prelude:    12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Jim McCutcheon, M.M.
Guitar Performance
     
Overture: 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm  
  12:30 pm – 12:45 pm Glen Solomon, M.D.
Welcome and Introductions
  12:45 pm – 1:15 pm Arthur Pickoff, M.D.
The Prevalence of Musicians Among Physicians:
We Gotta Be Outperforming the Lawyers
  1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke
The Science of Music
  2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Mary T. White, Ph.D.
Managing Uncertainty:
Music, the Brain, and Ethics
  2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Jerald Kay, M.D.
Improvisation in Psychotherapy

     
Intermission: 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm  
     
Duets: 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm  
  3:15 pm – 3:40 pm Melvin Goldfinger, Ph.D.
Brenda Ellis, Ed.D.
Neurological Disorders of Musicians
  3:40 pm – 4:05 pm

Beth Berrettoni, M.D.
Jim McCutcheon, M.M.
Performance Related Injuries of Musicians

  4:05 pm – 4:30 pm Gary Onady, M.D., Ph.D.
Ryan Tarjanyi, M.M. 
Communication Through Improvisation from Music to Medicine in Real Time
     
Finale: 4:30 pm – 5:45 pm  
  4:30 pm – 5:15 pm Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke
Thinking Outside the Box: Improvisation in Music, Medicine, and Life
  5:15 pm – 5:45 pm Ryan Tarjanyi Jazz Quartet in the White Hall Atrium
     
Encore: 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm WSU Concert Hall
    WSU Department of Music
“Fight Club”
    Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke