Texas Center
for Music and Medicine

Presented by experts in performing arts medicine and research, this unique half-day symposium will offer information relevant to the potential medical problems among trumpeters.

Thursday, May 22nd

Recognizing the distinct physical demands of this instrument, presenters will use new research findings to help explain specific risk factors including:

• mouthpiece force
• intra-oral pressures
• posture

Planned topics also include an epidemiological overview of upper-extremity problems, specific neuromuscular problems of the facial muscles and neck including:

• focal dystonia
• repetitive strain injury
• noise induced hearing loss
• prevention strategies

For further information contact:
Kris Chesky at 940 565-4126 or kchesky@music.unt.edu

Kris Chesky was born in Holyoke, Mass and holds a trumpet performance degree from Berklee College of Music (B.M. 1983) and music education degrees from the University of North Texas (M.M.E., 1988; Ph.D. 1992). His trumpet teachers included Chester Gawron, Raymond Katwika, Wes Hensel, Gregg Hopkins, Jeff Stout, Don Jacoby, and Leonard Candelaria. Dr. Chesky has developed and teaches graduate courses on music and medicine within the UNT College of Music and is an active professional trumpet player. He serves as Director of Education and Research for the Texas Center of Music & Medicine and holds a unique joint faculty position within the UNT College of Music and the UNT Health Science Center Department of Medicine in Fort Worth. Dr Chesky serves on the Board of Directors for the Performing Arts Medical Association, the Scientific Review Board for the Medical Problems of Performing Artists Journal, and the Editorial Review Board for International Trumpet Guild Journal.

Dr. Chesky's research focuses on the medical problems of musicians and applications of music in medicine. Dr. Chesky holds a U.S. patent for the development of music vibration technology and has conducted research studies within several hospitals and university-based research settings. He has received research grants including some from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and has published numerous scientific research articles in both music and medicine journals and books, including a recent chapter on musicians’ health in The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning (Oxford Press, 2002).

James Ford III, a native of Perry, GA, earned his bachelors degree from Valdosta State University in Georgia. He has earned two masters degrees at the University of North Texas (MM in Trumpet Performance and MME) as well as having served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Applied Trumpet for three years. James is presently completing the DMA at the University of North Texas. Additionally, James has served one year as a Research Assistant for the Texas Center of Music and Medicine. James has a reputation as an accomplished all-round trumpet player. He has studied with Leonard Candelaria and Kenneth Kirk. James has performed as a member of the UNT One O'clock Lab Band and performs extensively throughout the Dallas area in all musical settings: orchestral, chamber brass, jazz big band and small groups, shows and early music ensembles on natural trumpet. James was selected by national audition to participate in the programs at Disney World, Euro-Disney, and the Henry Mancini Institute.

Dr. Henoch received her BA in communication disorders and her MA in audiology from the University of North Texas. She completed her Ph.D. in audiology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Henoch's research interests have included self-perception of hearing handicap in older adults, auditory perception changes as a function of aging, and most recently, risk of hearing loss in professional musicians. She collaborates with researchers from the University of North Texas Center for Music and Medicine in identifying and investigating risk factors associated with musical performance. She is well published in her areas of interest having collaborated with Dr. Kris Chesky on a number of articles relative to prevention of hearing loss in the musician population. Throughout her twenty-eight year career in audiology, Dr. Henoch has maintained a continued interest in the rehabilitation of adults with hearing loss and as a result was elected to serve twice, in 1985 and 2000, as President of the Academy of Rehabilitative Audiology. Dr. Henoch is Director of the Doctor of Audiology (Au.D.) program in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of North Texas and teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in audiology.

Dr. Kondraske is Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington and founding director of the Human Performance Institute. He also holds academic appointments at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Texas Woman's University. Since receiving his doctorate, he has conducted human and systems performance research sponsored by NIDRR, NSF, NASA, DOE, USAF, NIH, the Veterans Administration, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, as well as a number of other agencies and industrial firms. He is widely recognized for his work in human performance modeling and measurement. Key contributions include the development of a Human Performance Capacity Measurement System (now commercially available and in use in nine countries), General Systems Performance Theory, and the Elemental Resource Model for human performance which have provided new insights into performance prediction and analyses to identify limiting performance resources. He has applied these tools to problems in medical rehabilitation, ergonomics, sports, music, information technology based training systems and other areas. He has authored over 200 publications on these topics. In 1986, he was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Award" and received the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Career Achievement Award in 1989. He was also elected a Fellow of the IEEE with a citation "for contributions to the quantitative understanding of human performance through modeling and the development of instrumentation". Dr. Kondraske is an accomplished accordion player and specializes in Polish polka music.

Dr. Lederman received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1960, and graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1966 with M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. His subsequent training included two years of internal medicine at Bronx Municipal Hospital Center in New York; two years of research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland; and three years of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Since 1973, he has been a member of the Department of Neurology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. His academic appointments include Associate Professor of Neurology at Ohio State University College of Medicine and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Lederman is active in the field of Performing Arts Medicine, serving as Director of the Cleveland Clinic Medical Center for Performing Artists. He was co-Director of the Annual Symposium on Medical Problems of Musicians and Dancers at Aspen, Colorado from 1984-1995 and was founding Vice President and subsequently President of the Performing Arts Medicine Association. Dr. Lederman has served on the editorial board of the journal, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, since its inception in 1986. He has written extensively on neuromuscular problems of instrumental musicians and is a co-editor of Performing Arts Medicine, now in its 2nd edition.

Boni Rietveld was born in Rotterdam in 1952. In 1976 he graduated as a trumpet teacher from the Royal Conservatoire of Music in The Hague. In 1978 he graduated from the Medical Faculty at the University of Leiden. In 1987 he was certified as an orthopaedic surgeon being trained at Leiden University Medical Centre in The Netherlands and in the U.S.A., where he had extensive training in dance-orthopaedics working with William G. Hamilton, M.D., orthopaedic surgeon of the New York City Ballet Company. Dr. Rietveld is the head of the first Dutch Medical Centre for Dancers and Musicians, which he founded in the Westeinde Hospital in The Hague on April 1st, 1993. As an orthopaedic surgeon, he devotes all his time to the health care and cure for dancers and musicians. He is a frequently invited speaker at international Performing Arts-Medicine conferences and is member of several national and international Performing Arts-Medicine Associations. As a musician, he performs regularly as a trumpeter, both in classical and in old style jazz. His band "The Original Michigan Ramblers of ArraWara" was founded in 1972 at Leiden University and has made several recordings and toured The Netherlands, France, Switserland and the U.K. He is a former Board member of the World Harp Congress inc., was a (founding) board member of the Dutch Harp Society and is a member of the International Trumpet Guild.

Dr. Rubin is Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Rheumatology at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. He graduated from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1976. His residency in internal medicine was at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pa. Following that he completed a fellowship in rheumatology at Thomas Jefferson University and a fellowship in clinical immunology at Hahnemann University. He later completed a Masters in Public Health at UNTHSC. He is board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, American College of Osteopathic Internists, and American College of Rheumatology. His areas of interest include the molecular basis of connective tissue diseases. This includes the accumulation of abnormal proteins in rheumatoid arthritis and the production of autoantibodies in syemic lupus erythematosus. Hopefully, enhanced knowledge of the molecular basis of these diseases will provide new methods of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. His clinical research studies focus on the psychological components of rheumatic diseases and the evaluation of new potential therapies for osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoporosis, particularly involving the use of osteopathic manipulation in treatment programs. Dr Rubin is a clarinetist, and the Medical Director and co-founder of the Texas Center for Music & Medicine. He is actively involved in evaluation, treatment, and prevention of health problems of musicians. He has worked with Drs Chesky and Krondaske for several years in their shared research efforts.