Tag: performing arts medicine
Performing Arts Medicine
How lucky we are to be alive right now!
I’m young, scrappy and hungryAnd I’m not throwing away my shot! Dreams do come true. September 17 to November 26, 2023. Special thanks to the Performing Arts Medicine Association, “understudy” Frances, and the person affiliated with the production who found me. Grateful for the opportunity to have supported the performers from Hamilton Manila tour 2023! […]
Support PAMA, support me! (and our efforts to build Performing Arts Medicine in the Philippines)
A few weeks ago, the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) asked me to write a bit about my experiences with PAMA and how it has enriched my life in Performing Arts Medicine. They used a snippet for social media (no, that is not me in the photo!), but here is my entire treatise… enjoy! Grateful […]
#ASPAH2023 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
November 25, 2023 Made it to Brisbane for the the Australian Society for Performing Arts Healthcare annual conference. First in-person meeting since 2019, and learning from the pandemic: it’s a hybrid conference that is also available online! As with most formal Australian gatherings, there was a Welcome to Country ceremony from a representative of the […]
That was fun… we’d like an encore, please!
September 30, 2023 Maraming salamat, UP Symphony Orchestra! We enjoyed the collaboration between our university musicians and our Performing Arts Medicine team from the PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine in this series of three musicians’ health talks. Dr. Ria Panis and Ms. Florence Culaba (psychologist) talked about ergonomics and mindfulness, respectively, before their Saturday rehearsal […]
Musicians’ Health Series with the UP Symphony Orchestra
Proud of our PGH Department of Rehabilitation Medicine team at today’s musicians’ health series talks with the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra! We did a short slide show on optimizing performance followed by a warm-up and stretching regimen in preparation for their Saturday morning rehearsal. Grateful for the opportunity! Read about our first session […]
Symphonic Rides by UPSO
Medical school memory (perhaps in internship year?): I remember walking along Pedro Gil St. towards the College of Medicine’s entrance gates, and talking to forever block mate Lyanna about my future practice in Performing Arts Medicine. In particular, how I would get an “ex-deal” with tickets… get to watch performances for free in exchange for […]
The “M Collaborations”: U.P. Music x Medicine
A mid-August visit to the University of the Philippines College of Music: it felt like coming home! Soon after we launched our series of health talks with the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra, I attended a wonderful, productive, inspiring meeting with the College of Music dean, college secretary, faculty members and a music therapist […]
Hello, UP Symphony Orchestra!
(PGH DRM x UPSO) Establishing rapport: hello orchestra, we are the Philippine General Hospital Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and would like to be your physicians. Our team from the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine started our Musicians’ Health Series of short-ish talks this morning with the University of the Philippines Symphony Orchestra. We joined them before […]
Performing Arts Medicine Association 41st International Symposium
July 6-9, 2023. It was great to be back among “my people” in New York City after missing the first post-pandemic in-person conference (Chicago, 2022) due to illness. Bonus: we [Dave the Travel Pig and I] “met” the inventor of the Pap smear. Special thanks to the organizers, and also to my presentation co-author John […]
Performing Arts Medicine – Singapore Trip
I was chatting with my medical school classmates Fil and Mae about our research project, when Fil (Filomar Tariao, aka “doctor Fil” to his students) mentioned he would be presenting our findings at a local Singapore event: the May 2023 Sports Medicine Association Singapore – Performing Arts Medicine Special Interest Group meeting. I half-jokingly asked […]
