Webinar: Music Therapy Intervention with MusiCure – Music as Medicine

Speaker: Anne Taylor

Anne Taylor, RN, BSN is the CEO & Founder of Scandic Health

Wellbeing is something we all strive to achieve. This is especially true for patients, caregivers and all members of the healthcare team. Today there are technologies in place that can be used to reduce stress, anxiety and fear. This webinar will demonstrate the evidence-based science around MusiCure – music as medicine and how it can assist patient advocates and consumers in their daily lives. Anne will tell her story as an RN, mother and now advocate for mental health. The participants will come away with tools, ideas and hope. A point about the importance of self- care for caretakers and advocates will be highlighted.

Program Objectives:

1. The focus will be on my story how I went from a mom and nurse to a mental health advocate. The goal will be to share my story and to create a light for others to see. Advocacy comes from personal experiences and its stories from the trenches that create change, create support and create hope for recovery.
2. The participants will gain knowledge of evidence-based music intervention and a detailed overview of the science behind MusiCure – music as medicine will be taught, the focus will be on the application of MusiCure – music as medicine within the healthcare sector but also privately. I will focus on the importance of a healing sound environment both for patients and their advocates to improve recovery.

Anne Taylor’s mental health challenges in her family pushed her into advocacy. In recovery she was introduced to the evidence-based MusiCure – music as medicine as a way to calm the mind. She promotes a calming sound environment in healthcare to lower anxiety and improve patient’s mental health. Anne has been interviewed for podcasts about mental health and entrepreneurship. She has contributed with articles to ThisIsMyBrave.org and Ecophon.com about mental health and the importance of a healing sound environment in healthcare. Anne is born in Copenhagen, Denmark and an RN, BSN living with her family in Northern Virginia.

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Webinar: A Revolution in Musculoskeletal Care

Speaker: Dr. Ronald Donelson

Credible data documents that the care of musculoskeletal pain, including low back (LBP) and neck pain (NP), has been worsening with more people suffering from chronic pain, more drugs being dispensed, more injections, and unnecessary surgeries. The results are not positive. With current conventional treatment, we have more people with disabilities and spiraling healthcare costs. Today, there is equally credible data that documents that a highly innovative clinical assessment identifies characteristics of each patient’s condition that also identifies standardized, predictably-effective self-treatment that produces rapid, easy, risk-free, inexpensive recoveries for 80-90% of patients. This session will explain the evidence and assist patient advocates and consumers in understanding better options when dealing with acute and chronic LBP and NP.

Ronald Donelson, MD, MS, DipMDT, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon who specializes in and has researched non-operative spine care for 30 years. He is Founder/President of SelfCare First, an organization that seeks to globally improve the value of spinal/musculoskeletal care. Dr. Donelson has published numerous research studies, chapters, review articles, and two books on the topic: “Rapidly Reversible Low Back Pain: An Evidence-Based Pathway to Widespread Recoveries and Cost Saving” and “Solving the Mystery: The Key to Rapid Recoveries for Most Back and Neck Pain”

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A Week in the Life of a Palliative Care Doctor: What we really do

Speaker: Dr. Gary Pasternak - 

Dr. Gary Pasternak is medical director at Mission Hospice and Home Care and co-director of the Mission House, a residential hospice home in San Mateo, CA. He is board certified in hospice and palliative medicine and internal medicine. He completed a palliative care fellowship at the San Diego Hospice in 2010 and has been practicing palliative care full time with Mission Hospice since then. He assisted in the design and implementation of Mission’s policy regarding physician assisted dying as well as Mission’s partnership with Stanford University in teaching palliative/hospice care in the home and at Mission House. He completed chaplaincy training at the Chaplaincy Institute in Berkeley in 2008 and enjoys working with hospice multidisciplinary teams.

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