Alumni Reunion Weekend 2008

Saturday, May 17, 2008
DEAN’S DAY PROGRAM

9:00 am
Breakfast with Dean Lee Goldman, MD
Executive Vice President for Health & Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences & Medicine
Donald F. Tapley Faculty Club, 630 West 168th Street, 4th Floor (Between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)

10:15
Welcome
Lee Goldman, MD, Executive Vice President for Health & Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences & Medicine
P&S Alumni Auditorium, 650 West 168th Street (Between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue)

A Musical Salute to Medicine—
A morning of narrative, instrumentals and vocals.
Host, Kenneth A. Forde ’59, Jose M. Ferrer Professor Emeritus of Clinical
Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons

K e y n o t e
Music’s Healing Powers
Samuel Wong, MD, Ophthalmic Surgeon in Private Practice
Founding President, Global Music Healing Institute
Dr. Wong has conducted many of the world’s great orchestras and operas, after famously substituting for Leonard Bernstein at a concert in 1990. In his journeys, he has found ways to help his patients by harnessing the power of music in rehabilitating stroke victims, evoking memories and alleviating pain. Inhabiting the professional worlds of music and medicine, Dr. Wong offers unique insights across the two fields.
Solo Violin Performance Shanti Serdy ’98
Classical Piano Performance Lamont Barlow ’09
Performance by the Apgar Memorial Quartet
Performance by the Ultrasounds
Piano—Viola Duet June Wu ’96 and John Austin, MD
Performance by Singer-Songwriter Scott Fruhan ’10
Performance by the Bard Hall Players

K e y n o t e
Musicophilia:
Clinical Tales of Music and the Brain
Oliver Sacks, MD, Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry,
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons,
Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institute, and Consulting Neurologist, Little Sisters of the Poor, NYC Dr. Sacks is a world-renowned neurologist and psychiatrist and best-selling author who has devoted his career to studying patients trapped by conditions ranging from encephalitis lethargica (the
subjects of his book Awakenings), to Tourette’s Syndrome, autism, parkinsonism, musical hallucinations, phantom leg syndrome, schizophrenia, retardation and Alzheimer’s disease. He has documented this work in a number of neurological case histories, including Musicophilia. He has also written about his experiences as a physician in Migraine and as a patient in A Leg to Stand On. He has recently joined the faculty at P&S.

1:00 pm
Luncheon
Donald F. Tapley Faculty Club, 630 West 168th Street, 4th Floor
Special dessert prepared by Thomas Lo ’08
Wines selected by Norman Kahn, DDS, PhD

Welcome
Jacqueline A. Bello ’80, President, P&S Alumni Association

Remarks
Lee Goldman, MD, Executive Vice President for Health & Biomedical Sciences, Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences & Medicine

2:30
Tour of the Health Sciences Campus
Leaving from Donald F. Tapley Faculty Club, 630 W 168th Street, 4th Floor

SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2008

7:00
Gala Celebration
Gala Reception, Dinner Dance and
Presentation of the Gold Medals
Tavern on the Green, Central Park West at 67th Street • Black Tie