Perspectives in Performing Arts Medicine Practice II

Performing Arts Medicine (PAM) is a multidisciplinary specialization that combines the fields of performing arts and healthcare fields, addressing the health and wellness of performing artists. This book’s theme focuses on performing arts medicine as an occupational health issue that impacts wellness in public health and imparts the arts in healing. It presents the treatment and care of mental and physical health of the performing artists and environmental factors that impact prevention and care, drawing on scientific knowledge in practice. It aims to share knowledge from experienced practitioners, novel research findings, region-specific dance experiences, and support for using body-mind movements for healing. An experience-based narrative is emphasized and supported by theory-based knowledge. Conversely, experimental and observational science is backed by practical implications and classroom usage.
The text is structured into three parts: Occupational Health Perspectives, Physical Health and Wellness, and Social-Behavioral Health and Care. Part One begins with a chapter on hazards in performing arts with vivid illustrations of the risky stage setups and long hours of bodily abusive practice. It concludes with a chapter that explores the new conceptual frame of neurophenomenology as a philosophy and methodology in musician training and rehabilitation of impaired musicians. The second part includes information on voice assessment and individualized care plans, the use of joint hypermobility, and a case study on a fifth metatarsal fracture of a professional ballet dancer and her length of recovery. The final part opens with chapters on performance anxiety and continues with information on resilience, performance traumatic stress disorder, and implementing trauma-informed care into practice with musicians, and ends with chapters on communal healing with Drumming as medicine and Parkinson’s Disease in dance movement and an interprofessional collaboration between athletic training and dance.
Written as a counterpart to 2020’s Perspectives in Performing Arts Medicine Practice, this second volume utilizes theory-based practices that fill a gap by making them easily accessible to the multidisciplinary constituents of performing arts medicine, including healthcare professionals, performing artists, and educators.

Dr. Sang-Hie Lee, Professor of Music at the University of South Florida, is a music performer, researcher, and interdisciplinary administrator. Lee is the author of Scholarly Research in Music: Shared and Disciplinary-Specific Practices, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2022). She is the leading editor of Perspectives in Performing Arts Medicine: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Springer 2020). She authored 74 scholarly publications, presented 85 conference papers, keynotes, and lectures, and hosted seven international conferences. Sang-Hie has performed solo and chamber music in the USA, South Korea, China, Serbia, Brazil, Italy, and Canada; her music is captured on six Compact Discs by the Ravello, Centaur, Capstone, and Albany labels.
Dr. Ruth Huntley Bahr is a Professor and Dean for the Office of Graduate Studies. She graduated from the University of Florida with a doctoral degree in experimental phonetics. Her primary research interests include voice production in individuals with vocal disorders, identification of vocal biomarkers, between and within speaker variability in forensic situations, spelling and written language, and the nature of phonological representations in dialect speakers and second language learners. She has edited two books and published numerous articles and book chapters. She has also been working in the field of Forensic Phonetics for over 35 years, where she has specialized in speaker identification, tape authentication, and gunshot analysis, as well as testifying in numerous trials. She is a Fellow in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the International Society of Phonetic Sciences.
Dr. Steven Specter joined USF-PAMC around 2014 and has served as a vital messenger and critical link between the arts and medical communities. Known throughout his 39-year career as a “steady, wise and constant” leader, whose philanthropic work has amassed $860,000 in endowed scholarship funds for Morsani College of Medicine students. As dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Specter worked hard to increase Student Scholarship from $450,000 to over $4.5 million during his tenure as dean of Students. Dr. Bryan Bognar, Vice Dean of the Office of Educational Affairs, calls Dr. Steven Specter “one of the quiet heroes of the College.” At USF-PAMC, Dr. Specter has been the driving force in garnering support from various units within the University.
Dr. Candace Burns is the Major Professor and Chair of post-master’s DNP student projects and PhD student dissertations at the USF College of Nursing. As the Deputy Director of the Sunshine Education and Research Center (SERC), Dr. Burns has received over $20 million in federal grant funding, published more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, monographs, and book chapters, and delivered 114 presentations at international and national professional organizations. Dr. Burns served as the director of the adult nurse practitioner program and assistant dean at the USF College of Nursing. She served as a Principal Investigator of multiple successful training grants and maintained 11 years of continuous funding for the Quentin Burdick Interdisciplinary Training in Primary Care in Rural Areas.
Dr. Marzenna Wiranowska received an MS degree in Medical Microbiology/Immunology/Virology, with research focused on interferon biochemistry. Applying her interferon research experience to neuro-oncology and brain tumor models, she studied the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and interferon delivery via biodegradable, biocompatible polymers using in vivo orthotopic models of glioma, and examining glioma biology in in vitro models. Recently, in collaboration with an Engineering professor, she developed nano-drug delivery models to cancer cells, such as glioma and ovarian carcinoma (co-inventor of awarded patent and April 2020, published data in the Springer journal Cancer Nanotechnology). Dr. Wiranowska received Morsani College of Medicine Distinguished Educator award.