Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine employees: Marie Grippo, administrative assistant; Dan Schteingardt, former LACMM intern and now music therapist at St. Luke’s, and International Fellow, Rieko Eguchi.
This week I had the pleasure of attending The Wonderful World of Music, a fundraiser benefitting the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine (LACMM) at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. It was a world-class event for our world-class music therapy program and I was happy to see so many from our MSBI family there.
Each year the event honors musicians, physicians, and patients who are advocates of music and music therapy. I was privileged to help introduce Dr. Charles P. Melone, MSBI professor of Orthopedics. He has changed many patients’ lives. But, I enjoyed hearing about one of Dr. Melone’s patients in particular with long-term arthritis. He was able to continue playing music thanks to the help of Dr. Melone.
I was also excited to see the honoree Jackson Browne, a favorite singer/songwriter of mine.
Our music therapy department is constantly breaking new ground on integrating music and medicine. This event raises funds for their incredible research, patient care, and educational programs. We are lucky to have them at MSBI.
What a wonderful world and what a wonderful night for our wonderful staff!
Two of the ten music therapy interns, Yi Xia and Thomas Schneider, who will spend the next nine months training with LACMM, helped out at the silent auction.
Medical Director of the LACMM Stephan Quentzel, MD and Director and Associate Professor at Icahn School of Medicine Joanne Loewy, MT-BC, LCAT introducing the honorees.
Dean of Graduate Medical Studies, Michael Leitman, MD; Charles P. Melone, MD and MSBI orthopedic surgeon; MSBI President Jeremy Boal, MD.