“Music is embedded into everyday life for Alexander Pantelyat, MD,” writes Lola Butcher in June 20’s Neurology Today, published by the American Academy of Neurology. Pantelyat, a trained violinist who is co-director of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Movement Disorders Fellowship program, is working to create “a new medical subspecialty: musicians’ medicine. Q: When did you get interested in music? … Pantelyat: We immigrated to the US [from the Soviet Union] when I was 9…. I played in the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra.… At [the University of Pennsylvania], I was in the Hippocrates Trio, which consisted of me, a Penn dental student who was a cellist, and an MD/PhD student who was a pianist. Q: What is the focus of the Center for Music & Medicine’s work? Pantelyat: … Music as medicine is what I focus on, but equally important for us is medicine for musicians. Q: How do you see music as medicine evolving? Pentelyat: This is the most exciting time I can think of in terms of research into music and rhythm-based interventions for the brain, in part because of the incredible Sound Health partnership between the Kennedy Center and the National Institutes of Health, which started in 2017.”
Posted July 3, 2019
