Global Music Healing Institute Mission

Our purpose is to stimulate research, increase public awareness, and enhance interdisciplinary knowledge of the medical benefits of music, "Music Medicine". The corporation serves as a forum for discussion and research on such topics as the use of music to retrieve lost memories in Alzheimer's patients, to alleviate chronic pain, to reach autistic children, to enhance movement in Parkinson's disease. The corporation seeks to apply current knowledge and implement music therapy programs in hospitals, hospices, universities, medical schools, assisted living communities, prisons, and rehabilitation programs with cutting edge technologies.

Means to accomplish our mission:

1. International conferences (Hawaii, May 21-22, 2005 and The UN, New York City, June 8-9, 2005) where basic science, music therapy, neuro-imaging, mind-body communities will be brought together in a 2-day symposium. These conferences can coincide with symphony concerts that Maestro Samuel Wong will conduct (2005 in Hawaii, 2006 in New York, 2007 in Hong Kong, 2008 in London)

2. Web site that will be a clearinghouse for current research and a forum for scientific exchange, including an e-Journal of Music Medicine.

3. Support basic science research and clinical studies of music medicine worldwide including ongoing studies in USA (Lee, Whelan), China (Wong), Germany (Wong and Hilz) and Canada.

4. Forging connections to medical schools (Harvard, Columbia, NYU, University of Toronto, University of Hawaii, Hong Kong University), music schools (Juilliard, Manhattan, Mannes), and corporations worldwide to develop music therapy programs in hospitals, hospices, assisted living communities, prisons, schools for special need children, homeless shelters, and rehabilitation centers.

5. Educating the public in benefits of music medicine through media activity in newspapers, television, radio, and the internet.