Host Dr. Connie Corley of "Experience Talks" interviews musician/author/educator Christine Stevens

Posted by Hilary Edwards on Wed, Dec 05, 2012

Stevens is an internationally acclaimed speaker, author, and music therapist. Holding masters degrees in both social work and music therapy, Stevens inspires people all over the world with her message of music for holistic health, spirituality and wellness. Stevens is the author of Music Medicine, The Healing Drum Kit, and The Art and Heart of Drum Circles book and DVD. She has recorded two play-along CDs; Reviving Rhythms, and Drumming Up Diva.

Stevens is the founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, offering diversity training, teambuilding, and wellness presentations world-wide. She has trained facilitators and led workshops in more than twenty countries, including Iraq, Hong Kong, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, and Western Europe.

Stevens trains HealthRHYTHMS facilitators throughout the United States, England and Japan through Remo, the world's largest drum company. A leader in the music and wellness movement, Christine also serves on the editorial board of Explore: A Journal of Science and Healing. 

Dr. Corley is a Professor at Fielding Graduate University and California State University Los Angeles (and Associate Director of Lifelong Learning, Applied Gerontology Institute).  She completed her graduate degrees at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds certification from the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC and is adjunct faculty at Saybrook University. Dr. Corley's 100+ publications and national/international presentations have spanned the fields of aging and the arts, geriatrics, rehabilitation, spirituality, and substance abuse.  She  has been a mentor in Geriatric Social Work Initiatives funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, and also a mentor in the New Ventures in Leadership program of the American Society on Aging (ASA). She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), Past President of the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGE-SW),  a recipient of the AGE-SW Leadership Award, and in 2004 was the Inaugural recipient of the West Coast Gerontological Social Work Career Award from the Institute for Geriatric Social Work.  Cal State LA named Dr. Corley a Distinguished Woman in 2008. She is in "Who's Who in America” and “Who’s Who of American Women.” 

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Telemedicine broadens the DPT classroom experience

Students in Elon's Doctor of Physical Therapy program are using telemedicine to connect with physical therapists and patients across the country.

Elon DPT students observe and engage a patient and physical therapist at a wound care center in Nevada.

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The Elon DPT students file into the Francis Center classroom with laptops open and ready to record the events of the day.

Today they’re sitting in on a wound consultation. They’ll ask questions and observe the action as Doug Herron, PT, fits a patient with a total contact cast. The patient has diabetes and the cast will help to heal a foot ulcer.

The procedure is relatively common but the circumstances aren’t exactly what they seem.

The Elon students and their professor, Daryl Lawson, are active participants but their vantage point in the Francis Center is 2,600 miles and three time zones away from the Reno, N.V. wound care center where the consultation is taking place.

This is telemedicine and its benefits are broad and far-reaching.

Lawson, associate professor of physical therapy education, initiated the project when he visited Renown Health Advanced Wound Care a few weeks ago. The center provides wound care to 40-50 patients per day across the state, many from rural backgrounds.

The use of video conferencing technology is increasingly common in medical schools. It puts students in real-life situations early in their education, and also allows them to learn from patients and clinicians from backgrounds they might not typically encounter. It also allows real time communication with the patient and clinician during the procedure.

Lawson’s students will spend 30-45 minutes each week in a teleconference as they track and interact with patient and the clinician during the rehabilitation process. They’ll watch the healing process in real time, rather than learning through theory or photo slides. The experience will grow their expertise, but also broaden their network as they learn from and converse with clinicians across the country.

Beyond expanding the classroom experience, Lawson also hopes to utilize telemedicine to better serve patients at a pro-bono physical therapy clinic he’s opening in Appalachia. When he’s not at the clinic, he anticipates using telemedicine techniques to follow-up with patients in research projects around the country.

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Host Dr. Connie Corley of "Experience Talks" interviews musician/author/educator Christine Stevens

Posted by Hilary Edwards on Wed, Dec 05, 2012

Stevens is an internationally acclaimed speaker, author, and music therapist. Holding masters degrees in both social work and music therapy, Stevens inspires people all over the world with her message of music for holistic health, spirituality and wellness. Stevens is the author of Music Medicine, The Healing Drum Kit, and The Art and Heart of Drum Circles book and DVD. She has recorded two play-along CDs; Reviving Rhythms, and Drumming Up Diva.

Stevens is the founder of UpBeat Drum Circles, offering diversity training, teambuilding, and wellness presentations world-wide. She has trained facilitators and led workshops in more than twenty countries, including Iraq, Hong Kong, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, and Western Europe.

Stevens trains HealthRHYTHMS facilitators throughout the United States, England and Japan through Remo, the world's largest drum company. A leader in the music and wellness movement, Christine also serves on the editorial board of Explore: A Journal of Science and Healing. 

Dr. Corley is a Professor at Fielding Graduate University and California State University Los Angeles (and Associate Director of Lifelong Learning, Applied Gerontology Institute).  She completed her graduate degrees at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds certification from the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC and is adjunct faculty at Saybrook University. Dr. Corley's 100+ publications and national/international presentations have spanned the fields of aging and the arts, geriatrics, rehabilitation, spirituality, and substance abuse.  She  has been a mentor in Geriatric Social Work Initiatives funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation, and also a mentor in the New Ventures in Leadership program of the American Society on Aging (ASA). She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), Past President of the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGE-SW),  a recipient of the AGE-SW Leadership Award, and in 2004 was the Inaugural recipient of the West Coast Gerontological Social Work Career Award from the Institute for Geriatric Social Work.  Cal State LA named Dr. Corley a Distinguished Woman in 2008. She is in "Who's Who in America” and “Who’s Who of American Women.” 

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