Tag: New York

John Diamond

John Diamond

John Diamond (9 August 1934 – 25 April 2021) was a physician and author on holistic health and creativity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHM0VMQCFo Diamond married three times. His first wife was Suzanne Gurvich, with whom he had three children, Ian, Kathie, and Peter. In the 1970s he married Betty Peele, and in 1994 the opera singer Susan Burghardt.[2] For many years, Diamond played drums in a jazz band which he founded, named the Diamond Jubilators. The band Read more [...]
Doctors’ Orchestral Society of New York

Doctors’ Orchestral Society of New York

Die DOSNY wurde 1938 von Ärzten gegründet und führte symphonische Musik unter Ignatz Waghalter auf. Bis zu sechs Konzerte jährlich finden in den bekannten Konzertsälen statt, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall und in der Avery Fisher Hall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k53RIK0x-zU DOSNY was founded in 1938 by physicians interested in performing symphonic music under the direction of Ignatz Waghalter. In recent years it has added community musicians representing the diverse professions in Read more [...]
Ben Schwartz

Ben Schwartz

Ben Schwartz’s path to cartooning happened by way of a long flirtation with a medical career. He entered college planning to fulfil his premed requirements, dropped that after a year (opting for a psychology major), then returned to the sciences just in time to prepare for admission to Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. Through all of his studies, one thing stayed constant: He drew. Schwartz made it all the way through his first year as a resident in Read more [...]
Richard Kogan

Richard Kogan

Richard Kogan has a distinguished career both as a psychiatrist and as a concert pianist. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Artistic Director of the Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program, he has been praised for his “exquisite playing” by the New York Times, and the Boston Globe wrote that “Kogan has somehow managed to excel at the world’s two most demanding professions.” Dr. Kogan has gained renown for his lecture/concerts that explore Read more [...]
Alexie Puran

Alexie Puran

"With JetBlue Airways’ Inflight Buddy Program, I was able to work part-time as a flight attendant while simultaneously attend medical school. My experiences as a flight attendant have helped shape the physician who I am today, a better physician." article: How working as a flight attendant made me a better physician profile Read more [...]
Tony Cicoria

Tony Cicoria

Tony Cicoria after being struck by a lightning had an out-of-body-experience and in this status was inspired with a lightning piano sonata. Later he took up piano lessons, wrote down the piece, played and recorded it and last-not-least played it in the Vienna Mozart House at the recital of a PianoMusicDocs master-class. ( www.pianoforte.best ) If you click on the youtube link below you see lots of TV-shows and interviews with him. He became president of a "near-death-experience-association". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDtYkxSCV18 web wikipedia Read more [...]
Samuel Wong

Samuel Wong

Samuel Wong (Chinese: 黃大德) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian conductor and ophthalmologist [1]. Trained at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,[1] Dr. Wong is an eye surgeon practicing in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In another career, he has conducted many international orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Seattle and Houston Symphonies, Toronto and Montreal Symphonies, Read more [...]
Samaritan Doctors Orchestra

Samaritan Doctors Orchestra

The inaugural concert was held initially in the name of the North America Medical Orchestra (NAMO) on 12/16/2017 in New York with lots of support from physicians and medical researchers. The leaders of the NAMO actually helped in 4 major concerts in Domarican Republic in 2018 & 2019 seasons. Now NAMO is reborn with the name of the Samaritan Doctors Orchestra to stretch their humanitarian activities outside of the North America. web wikipedia youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter Read more [...]
The Weill Cornell Music Medicine Initiative

The Weill Cornell Music Medicine Initiative

A collaborative student-run effort to support medical students and professionals in musical pursuits and to further the understanding of music in medicine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uyyHLTwUJY Music as Medicine Through Weill Cornell’s affiliation with New York Presbyterian Hospital, the students and faculty of the Music and Medicine Initiative are developing partnerships to integrate music into medical practice. Music in the Community Bringing music to the Weill Cornell Read more [...]