NSGR - Medical Problems of the Musical Masters – at the Keyboard
At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:
- Correlate the medical illnesses of the musical masters with their creative output.
- Coordinate the history of medicine and music through the lives of the musical masters.
- Apply neurohumanities to their study of medicine.
About the presenter:
Phillip L. Pearl, MD
Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
William G. Lennox Chair, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Music and Health Institute, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
Phillip L. Pearl, MD, is director of epilepsy and clinical neurophysiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and the William G. Lennox Chair and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. He attended Johns Hopkins University, the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, followed by a fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Pearl previously served as division chief of neurology at Children’s National and professor of neurology, pediatrics and music at George Washington University School of Medicine before returning to Boston in January 2014. His primary research interest is inherited metabolic epilepsies, with a particular focus on disorders of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) metabolism.
Dr. Pearl has published more than 280 peer-reviewed manuscripts and more than 160 chapters and reviews. He also has written or edited eight books, including one translated into Chinese and another into Japanese.
He is a member of the Music and Health Institute at Berklee College of Music in Boston, a board member of the International Child Neurology Association and a past president of both the Professors of Child Neurology and the Child Neurology Society.