World-acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming — a leading advocate for the study of the powerful connections between arts and health — leads a dynamic discussion with a panel of experts to explore the powerful connections between the arts and health.
Space is limited and REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED for this free panel event.
Panel presented by Tuesday Musical, hosted by the Hudson Library, and co-sponsored by Peg’s Foundation and Peg's Gallery in Hudson.
We’ll begin with an introduction by Ms. Fleming, highlighting the intersection of music, neuroscience, and healthcare, alongside personal stories and insights from her career. Brief presentations and conversations follow with panelists:
Herbert Bruce Newton, MD is a pioneer in neuro-oncology with a passion for music (he plays bass in classic rock bands) and the Medical Director of the Brain Tumor Center at University Hospitals’ Seidman Cancer Center. Dr. Newton studies music and brain function. In working with brain tumor patients, he has applied the benefits of music therapy. “The musical ability in our brains has been in place for many thousands of years and is heavily involved in our emotional circuits,” he says. “The human brain is ‘pre-wired’ in most people to enjoy and appreciate music.”
Violinist Arial Clayton Karas is one of Cleveland Clinic’s longest-serving Musicians-In-Residence in their ground-breaking Performing Arts Program. She has given thousands of performances in healthcare spaces for patients, families, and caregivers across Cleveland Clinic campuses and beyond. She also is the founder of OPUS 216, a multi-genre ensemble presenting hundreds of performances every year, including partnering with Tuesday Musical’s Decompression Chamber program that aims to help ease stress by bringing free concerts to homeless shelters, healthcare facilities, schools and other high-pressure sites throughout our region.
Seneca Block, Ph.D, LPMT, MT-BC is a board-certified music therapist and the Lauren Rich Fine Endowed Director for Expressive Therapies with University Hospitals’ Connor Whole Health. Having worked as both a music therapist and program developer at several large-scale healthcare systems, his clinical goals include pain and stress management through music therapy. Dr. Block is working to implement music and art therapy into standard healthcare models including both general medical and psychiatric settings utilizing his expertise in program development, pain management, and community mental health.
Tammy Shella, PhD, LPAT, ATR-BC is the Director of the Arts and Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Shella is a board-certified art therapist and holds a PhD in psychology with a specialization in health psychology. She began her career at Cleveland Clinic in 1998 with a clinical focus on behavioral health, both with the general psychiatric population and on the specialized Center for Mood Disorders Treatment and Research. Dr. Shella created and grew the medical art therapy program at Cleveland Clinic and has researched and published on the impact of art therapy at bedside on mood, anxiety and pain. Her dissertation focused on art therapy and depression in people with MS, and current interests include the Burden of Normality in post-operative patients with epilepsy. In her current position Dr. Shella is focused on continued growth of Arts and Medicine as one of the largest and most comprehensive programs in the United States.
Copies of Renée Fleming’s books Music and Mind and The Inner Voice will be available for purchasing and signing courtesy of The Learned Owl Book Shop in Hudson.
Space is limited.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
for this free panel event.
Panel presented by Tuesday Musical, hosted by the Hudson Library, and co-sponsored by Peg’s Foundation and Peg's Gallery in Hudson.
