Composer, General Health, Health Song, Music, Music and Medicine, Music Composer, Stay Well Cards
Today I was guest speaker at the Stanford University Department of Ob/Gyn on the subject of How To Reach, Teach and Motivate Patients in 2012. My goal was to teach doctors and medical students new ways to explain health information. Here’s what one of the...
Composer, Early Menopause, Health Song, Memory, Music and Medicine
I’ve noticed for a long time that patients with Alzheimer’s Disease seldom forget the music they love most, even though the memories of loved ones and major memories slip away. It’s also known that music is used to remember the alphabet and the state...
Composer, Health Song, Music and Medicine
National Infertility Awareness Week begins today. It’s been 30 years since I performed the first in-vitro fertilization in Massachusetts, one of the first in the country. I wrote this poem then as a tribute to infertility patients and the invisible loss they...
Cancer, Composer, Health Song, Menopause, Music and Medicine, Music Composer
Please see my new blog on the Huffington Post. It’s about how a song can save your life.
Composer, General Health, Health Song, Music, Music and Medicine, Music Composer
I was recently interviewed by a website that asks different professional what they do for a living in order to help kids in high school pick a career. It’s called JobShadow. We talked about combining being a health expert and a professional musician and music...
Composer, General Health, Hot Flashes, Menopause, Music, Music and Medicine, perimenopause, Sleep, Stress
Is getting enough sleep keeping you up at night? If so, here are seven sleep tips the Sandman approved. Sometimes simple lifestyle strategies and relaxing music go a long way to improving minor sleep disturbances, especially for women as they enter perimenopause and...