Category: Performing Arts Medicine
Injury prevention and the overall health of performing artists
Slay and Sashay Away: We Wrote a Paper on Drag Queen Health
From data collection and analysis in 2017, to poster presentation in 2018 and oral presentation in 2023 at the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) Annual International Symposium… our paper on health issues in drag queens is finally published! What a long and winding road, but here we are. And a webinar is in the works […]
University of the Philippines College of Music Dean Mauricia D. Borromeo, 1939-2025
My piano teacher (my last lesson was in 1993 or 1994 but I still consider her my piano teacher) passed away yesterday from a recurrence of breast cancer. I went to the first night of her wake tonight, where her family, friends, colleagues and students gathered to celebrate her life. As musicians, it was but […]
July 2025: Adventures in Academia, USA Edition
A productive (but tiring) trip to the USA. Whew! Conference #1 of 2: (Please don’t) Break a Leg: an Introduction to Performing Arts Medicine. Ran a little over time because I asked the audience to stretch after sitting through 60 minutes of lectures from other people. But they needed it! Grateful for the opportunity to […]
Dancing the Afternoon Away with Experiential Learning and Wellness
Our Philippine General Hospital Department of Rehabilitation Medicine did some experiential learning last Friday, coupling two short talks on dance with ballroom dancing. We started with a talk from physiatrist and lifelong dancer Dr. Ria Panis, who brought her dance + medicine expertise with an introduction to dance medicine. I followed this with a “rehearsal” […]
Injury Prevention at Artists En Pointe Dance Studio
Third in a series: today Dr. Ria Mikhaella Panis and I visited Artists En Pointe Dance Studio once again in Alabang, Muntinlupa for the much anticipated talk on Injury Prevention, after January’s Nutrition for Dancers and February’s Dance Anatomy presentations. BRAVA Doc Ria, for delivering a comprehensive but very easy to understand presentation via hybrid […]
Musika at Ginawa (Music and Comfort): Holistic Health for Music Teachers and Students
Musika at Ginhawa (Music and Comfort): a two-day symposium focusing on the holistic health of tertiary level pre-professional musicians brought to you by the University of the Philippines College of Music and the PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. The first day (Monday, March 17, 2025) was for an audience of music teachers in the UPCMu […]
Clinic Now Open to the Arts and Letters Cluster!
Yesterday was our first clinic with an expanded population serving the University of the Philippines Diliman Arts and Letters Cluster – the Colleges of Human Kinetics, Fine Arts, Media & Communication, Arts & Letters and of course our host, the College of Music. We had patients from 3 of the colleges so I guess that’s […]
Dance-specific Physical Therapy (Physiotherapy) Collaboration… Woohoo!
This past week, my Rehabilitation Medicine colleague Dr. Ria Panis and I met up with En Pointe Health and Wellness Center owner and physical therapist (physiotherapist) Arlene Mackinlay. We are grateful to have finally met Arlene in person, after connecting through Dr. Mandy Zhang, a Singaporean physician colleague who specializes in sports medicine and performing […]
The Society for Strategic Education Studies National Conference 2025 (S4SES: Ehs-for-sehs)
I enjoyed the last two days (Februrary 27-28, 2025) at the Society for Strategic Education Studies National Conference at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in Diliman, Quezon City. The theme for this year’s S4SES (prounounced “ehs-for-sehs”) was “Enhancing Cultural and Arts Education with Critical Discourse on the Interface of Ecological Issues, […]
Sinag: the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (PARM) Annual Conference
PAMANA PH represent! After last year’s session on dance medicine, we are grateful for the opportunity to shine the spotlight on musicians this year during the Performing Arts Medicine track at the Philippine Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine (PARM) and ASEAN Rehabilitation Medicine Association joint convention in Manila. The three talks on the performing voice by […]
