Conference combines music with medicine...
The Fort Wayne area is known in some regional circles for its music and its medicine, but not so much for the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that could advance efforts to combine the two for patient treatment or wellness promotion.
That could change at a Sept. 12-13 conference at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.
The university will be the site of the third-annual international conference organized by the Alliance for Research in Music Medicine. General admission for the conference is $75 and includes dinner.
The alliance is expecting a diverse group of 75 to 100, “but it’s very hard to say,” said Nancy Jackson, director of music therapy at IPFW. “It’s Indiana, and this is very new to Indiana folks. But it started here, so it should come home here.”
The conference’s theme this year is “Music and Medicine: Composing the Science of Healing.” Author and physicist Claude Swanson will keynote the event, kicking it off with a view of quantum physics that will take the audience on a musical journey into the body’s physiology and biochemistry.
An alliance statement on the conference said its presentations and panel discussions will share the latest research on music’s impact on chronic disease, inflammation and new treatment strategies.
Questions and ideas relating to sound and body frequencies will be among the more intriguing topics covered at the conference, Jackson said.
“We know that all matter vibrates. All matter has some sort of frequency to it, and the cells of our body certainly are included in that,” she said.
“With the appropriate technology, we can probably have a computer picture of what those frequencies in the body are. We know lots of pieces and those pieces just have to be brought together.”
Speakers at the conference who aren’t medical doctors all have Ph.D.s. “If you look at the lineup, we have a very diverse group of people, all with very excellent credentials,” Jackson said.
“It’s not about one person or one viewpoint being the authority. We are all bringing our own expertise in to look at our common problems,” she said. “We’re looking at ways we can start to do research together and not have missing pieces in the studies we have done.”
ARIMM was co-founded by Jackson and a local doctor who chairs its board, Angela LaSalle of Fort Wayne Endocrinology.
LaSalle had graduated from IPFW, and when she had the idea for the conference, she contacted Jackson about it because she remembered the university had a music therapy program.
The first ARIMM conference took place at the University of Arizona through contacts LaSalle had developed when she was there for its integrated medicine program. This year, the conference is hosted and co-sponsored and by IPFW’s Music Department.
“We expect some students here and we expect some professionals here. There are people in the community who are very interested,” Jackson said.
“We’re going to have folks who are just intrigued and professionals who really want to get involved in this. We need lots and lots of ideas and viewpoints.”
That could change at a Sept. 12-13 conference at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.
The university will be the site of the third-annual international conference organized by the Alliance for Research in Music Medicine. General admission for the conference is $75 and includes dinner.
The alliance is expecting a diverse group of 75 to 100, “but it’s very hard to say,” said Nancy Jackson, director of music therapy at IPFW. “It’s Indiana, and this is very new to Indiana folks. But it started here, so it should come home here.”
The conference’s theme this year is “Music and Medicine: Composing the Science of Healing.” Author and physicist Claude Swanson will keynote the event, kicking it off with a view of quantum physics that will take the audience on a musical journey into the body’s physiology and biochemistry.
An alliance statement on the conference said its presentations and panel discussions will share the latest research on music’s impact on chronic disease, inflammation and new treatment strategies.
Questions and ideas relating to sound and body frequencies will be among the more intriguing topics covered at the conference, Jackson said.
“We know that all matter vibrates. All matter has some sort of frequency to it, and the cells of our body certainly are included in that,” she said.
“With the appropriate technology, we can probably have a computer picture of what those frequencies in the body are. We know lots of pieces and those pieces just have to be brought together.”
Speakers at the conference who aren’t medical doctors all have Ph.D.s. “If you look at the lineup, we have a very diverse group of people, all with very excellent credentials,” Jackson said.
“It’s not about one person or one viewpoint being the authority. We are all bringing our own expertise in to look at our common problems,” she said. “We’re looking at ways we can start to do research together and not have missing pieces in the studies we have done.”
ARIMM was co-founded by Jackson and a local doctor who chairs its board, Angela LaSalle of Fort Wayne Endocrinology.
LaSalle had graduated from IPFW, and when she had the idea for the conference, she contacted Jackson about it because she remembered the university had a music therapy program.
The first ARIMM conference took place at the University of Arizona through contacts LaSalle had developed when she was there for its integrated medicine program. This year, the conference is hosted and co-sponsored and by IPFW’s Music Department.
“We expect some students here and we expect some professionals here. There are people in the community who are very interested,” Jackson said.
“We’re going to have folks who are just intrigued and professionals who really want to get involved in this. We need lots and lots of ideas and viewpoints.”
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