Month: November 2024
Music and Health Workshop with the Strings and Chamber Music Department
The Philippine General Hospital Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Performing Arts Medicine team held a Music and Health Workshop with the University of the Philippines College of Music Strings and Chamber Music Department on November 26, 2024. Such a fun afternoon of learning about keeping musicians healthy and preventing injury. Looking forward to more collaboration in […]
Dance and Music Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease
Today’s event (November 27, 2024): honored to be part of the Movement Disorders Module focusing on Parkinson’s Disease at the national meeting of the Philippine Neurological Association. Very grateful for the opportunity to share how dance and music can help our patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s Disease. #physiatry #dancetherapy #musictherapy #rehabilitation #parkinsonsdisease #pd #neurology
Older Adults and the Built Environment
Mini-thesis from 2021, now finally an actual published journal article. This narrative review was written in my final semester at the Australian National University’s Master of Culture, Health and Medicine degree program. The draft was revised several times in preparation for publication. Very grateful! View the article here: https://doi.org/10.47895/amp.v58i20.8512Or here: https://actamedicaphilippina.upm.edu.ph/index.php/acta/article/view/8512This is part of a […]
Cross-cultural Healing and Ancestral Practices Panel at the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AAPMR) annual assembly
Cross-cultural healing and ancestral practices panel: We talked about bringing biomedicine + “other medicine” together = integrative medicine. 1 hr and 15 mins was not enough, people stayed for more discussion after we formally ended. Wow! Many thanks to colleagues on the panel: Drs. Glendaliz Bosques, Irene Estores, Deborah Bernal, Zainab Al Lawati, and Monica […]
