She also educates other health care professionals and delivers lectures and workshops in New York and internationally. As Program Coordinator of Creative Arts at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine Service, she serves pediatric and adult patients and their families. Details Or fastest delivery February 15 - 21.

She studied music education at Ohio University before earning a Master of Arts degree in music therapy at New York University. Music as Medicine: Deforia Lanes Life of Music, Healing, and Faith by Deforia Lane (): : Books Buy used: 14.95 3.99 delivery February 17 - 24. She is a board-certified music therapist. and licensed creative arts therapist. Here, Karen Popkin gives us an inside look at the role music therapists play. Music therapists provide services to help people cope with a cancer diagnosis and its treatment. In the Spotlight On series, we talk with some of these health care professionals to learn more about their jobs and the role they play in providing high quality cancer care. When you walk into a doctor’s office, hospital, or cancer center, you may encounter doctors, nurses, physician assistants, social workers-the list goes on. If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, you will interact with a number of different members of the health care team at various times during treatment. This article from Cancer Net is a good overview: Lane's work was more individual, going into a hospital room to work with a single patient. Occasionally they sit on Shapiro 9, but they are few in number, work part-time, and are responsible for both campuses. If you spend any time at BIDMC, you are likely aware of the harpists who play in various spots around the hospital. I was completely enthralled and convinced by her presentation and have wished ever since that we had a similar program here. Years ago I was a conference and heard a marvelous talk by Deforia Lane who was a music therapist in Cleveland.

Music as Medicine by Deforia Lane