News

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Two new additions to the MMI team: Javin Bose is our new Associate Director and also a member of the Board of Directors, and Greg Silverman is our new Technical Advisor. Bios at the Our Team and Board of Directors pages.

Andrew Schulman  (photo on the left)has been reappointed to a second 

three-year term on the ICU Liberation Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. 

He is a member of  the Outreach and Dissemination  sub-committee.

Board member Eric Despard is now the inaugural Executive and Artistic Director of the Arts at William & Mary where he promotes the arts across campus and the local and regional communities across the Virginia Peninsula. He was previously the Director of Cultural Arts at the University of Houston-Clear Lake where he managed the Bayou Theater, the UHCL Art Gallery, and stewarded the UHCL art collection at UHCL Pearland and UHCL Texas Medical Center campuses.

Jenzi Silverman, Secretary of the MMI Board of Directors, is teaching three courses this year at the University of Minnesota Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing furthering MMI's mission. They are: Music Health, and Healing, Music for Wellbeing in Times of Stress and Anxiety, and Overview of the Creative Arts in Healing.

Andrew Schulman will be featured in Heart Beat, a new documentary film about the power of music to heal. Heart Beat will be co-directed by Emmy Award winner Carol Carimi Acutt and Mike Boidy; the films partners include the AARP.

Andrew Schulman recorded all of the music for a new study of ICU music at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. funded by a major grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. The study was completed in September 2023 and the final analysis of the data is due in the summer of 2024.

Andrew Schulman appeared on the Wellbeing Series, of the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. He discussed his book, Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul, his ten years as a Medical Musician, and the founding of the Medical Musician Initiative.

The Caritas Consciousness Project presented a two-hour Live Zoom interview with Andrew Schulman, author of Waking the Spirit: A Musician's Journey Healing Body, Mind, and Soul, discussing the art of Medical Musicianship and the founding of the Medical Musician Initiative.

Andrew Schulman will serve as a consultant to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center-Therapeutic Music in the ICU project led by Ruth Kleinpell, Ph.D RN and Joseph Schlesinger, MD.

Andrew Schulman has been appointed Visiting Artist/Medical Musician of the Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center of the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He will be involved in sharing his knowledge of critical care music and in research about music and the brain.

Andrew Schulman  attended his first meeting of the ICU Liberation Committee at the Annual Congress of the Society of Critical Care Medicine in Orlando, Florida. He has been appointed to a three-year term on the committee.