EDUCATION

Internship and Residency in Anesthesiology: University of Arizona Health SciencesCenter, Tucson, Arizona 1976-1979

 

Medical School: Creighton Medical School, Omaha, Nebraska 1972-1976

 

Undergraduate: State University of New York at Buffalo 1969-1972 Psychology BArequirements completed, entered medical school without obtaining BA

 

EMPLOYMENT

Staff Anesthesiologist at Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia 1979-present

 

Transitions Music 1989-present

 

SoundWell Lab board, Austin Non-profit using biotechnologies to help Parkinson’s patients

 

MEMBERSHIP

Treasurer, International Association for Music and Medicine (IAMM)

Vice President International Society for Music in Medicine (ISMM)

Founding Board of Music and Medicine, A journal published by SAGE

Editorial board, Music and Medicine

Advisory board, The Music for Healing and Transition Program (MHTP)

American Music Therapy Association (AMTA)

Sound and Music Healers Association (SAMA)

Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health

International Music Society for Prenatal Development

American Society of Anesthesiologists

Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists

 

PUBLICATIONS

Music in Medicine, Chapter in Current Research in Arts Medicine, ed Fadi Hawzi, MD. 1993

 

Perinatal Stress Reduction, Music and Medical Cost Savings, Journal of Pre- andPerinatal Psychology and Health, Winter, 1998

 

Music Listening in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Chapter in Applications of Music and Medicine, ed Cheryl Dileo, published by the American Music Therapy Association, 1999

 

The Influence of Perinatal Music and Sound on Brain Growth and Applications to the Neonatal Intensive Care, chapter in Music Therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care United, Joanne Loewy, published by Beth Israel Medical Center 2000

 

Medical Music Therapy for the Premature Baby, Chapter in Music Therapy for

Premature Infants, ed Monika Nocker-Ribaupierre, Barcelona Publisher, Gilsum, NH, 2004

 

A Pilot Study of Patients in Postoperative Cardiac Surgery, Music and Medicine, July, 2009

 

Pathophysiology of Pain and Stress: Music Therapy Implications for Perinatal,

Perioperative, and Chronic Pain Patients, Chapter in Music and Medicine: Integrative Models in the Treatment of Pain, ed Mondanaro&Sara, Satchnote Press 2013

 

Auditory medical alarms-bad perception leads to bad outcomes MEDNAX safety newsletter Schwartz, F.J. & Schlesinger,J.J. 2017

 

MEDIA INTERVIEWS

Multiple appearances on CNN TV Headline News and CNN Medical News since 1989

 

Radio interviews on PBS and BBC 2000

 

Medical spokesman for Georgia Governor Zell Miller in bringing music to newborns

 

CERTIFICATION

Board certification by American Board of Anesthesiology 1981

 

Advanced Cardiac Life Support