The Intersection of Music, Medicine and Innovation

Enjoy a concert by the Longwood Symphony conducted by Ronald Feldman followed by a panel discussion by some of the Musical Medical Stars!  The panel discussion will be around the intersection between Music, Medicine and Innovation.

Panelists:

Lisa Wong, MD (violin); Milton Pediatric Associates, HMS, CHB, MGH, BWH; Assistant Co-Director, Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School

Leonard Zon, MD (trumpet); Director, Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Grousbeck Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 Psyche Loui, PhD (violin); Assistant Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice, Departments of Music and Psychology, Northeastern University

Thomas Sheldon, MD (oboe and English horn); Director, Radiation Oncology Concord Hospital / President, Radiation Oncology Associates

About the LSO

The Longwood Symphony Orchestra is a unique organization that combines music and medicine to serve the community. Composed primarily of medical professionals who are also highly trained musicians, the LSO has established the Healing Art of Music program, an award-winning philanthropic model through which it uses its concerts to help nonprofit organizations raise funds for noble organizations that bring about medical and social change. In the 2019-20 season, the LSO is proud to support four distinctive organizations: Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Partakers: College Behind Bars, and THRIVEGulu.

About the Healing Art of Music™
The Healing Art of Music™ program offers each LSO concert as a centerpiece to raise funds, awareness, and long-term capacity building for Boston-based nonprofit organizations that in turn heal the community through their vital work. Since 1991, The Healing Art of Music™ program has raised more than $2,500,000 for over 50 nonprofit Community Partners to support their healing missions.