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A friendship between a local physician and a famous New York opera singer has led to an unusual collaboration and an ongoing exploration of the relationship between music and medicine.
The Fourth Annual Music and Medicine Symposium, slated for Tuesday, Sept. 11, and Wednesday Sept. 12, at Wright State University, will open with a concert featuring medical school faculty and international opera performers Rodrick Dixon and Alfreda Burke, stars of PBS’s “Hallelujah Broadway.”
The Wednesday symposium “Professionalism in Medicine and Music” will include Dr. David Bronson, president of the American College of Physicians and president of Cleveland Clinic Regional Hospitals, and Dr. Nicholas Rizzo, a clinical instructor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and author of the book “Championship Nutrition and Performance: The Wrestler’s Guide to Lifestyle, Diet and Healthy Weight Control.”
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