The Healing Art and Science of Music

Friday Panel: >From left to right. At far left - Anisa Mehdi, Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist, Music For All Seasons Board member and co-moderator.
Sitting - Lynda Smith, General Manager Roland Contemporary Keyboards division, Los Angeles.
Mary Luehrson, Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations, NAMM The International Music Products Association, New York.
Margo Hennebach, Music For All Seasons musician and certified music therapist, Connecticut.
Dr. Arthur Factor, First Vice Chair of the NJ State Council on the Arts, New Jersey.
Jim Donio, President of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, New Jersey.
Ron Borczon, Professor of Music Therapy, California State University, Northridge.
Dr. Barry Bittman, Neurologist and Medical Director of the Mind-Body Wellness Center in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Standing - Stephen Rodner, Esq. Entertainment Law Attorney, Chairman of the Board of Music For All Seasons and co-moderator.
Anisa Mehdi and Stephen Rodner were filling in for Ken & Daria Dolan who were not able to leave Florida as a result of hurricane Wilma.

Drum Circle - the drum circle opened the Saturday morning session and was facilitated by Mark Jacopec.

Peter Wilson - percussionist, is a Music For All Seasons musician and one of the several musicians performing during the breaks in the conference. Live music was an integral part of the conference.

Dr. O.J. Sahler - Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Medical Humanities and Oncology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Dr. Sahler presented a paper demonstrating that listening to music for 35-40 minutes each day not only reduced the need for pain
and nausea medication in her bone-marrow transplant patients but also significantly reduced the time needed for engraftment.

Mad Agnes - During the evening Music For All Seasons performance/demonstration, the musicians of MAD AGNES, Margo Hennebach,
Mark Saunders and Adrienne Jones, performed a song called "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" created by pediatric oncology patients
during a Music For All Seasons program. This song was a musical expression of the patient's metamorphosis into Ninja Turtles fighting
the cancer cells that were invading their bodies.

Keynote speaker - from left to right.
Dr. David Felten, Medical Director of the Beaumont Research Center in Royal Oak, Michigan, and an internationally known researcher in the field of psychoneuroimmunology was the keynote speaker for the conference.
Dr. Carole Kolber, Director of Professional Development at JFK Medical Center.
Rena Fruchter, pianist, author and Artistic Director of Music For All Seasons.
Brian Dallow, pianist, composer and Executive Director of Music For All Seasons.