CANANDAIGUA – An associate professor of music therapy will be the guest speaker when UR Medicine Thompson Health’s Stroke Support Group hosts a meeting via Zoom video conferencing on Thursday, May 6, at 1 p.m.
Betsey King, PhD, LCAT, MT-BC, is an associate professor at Nazareth College in Rochester and the director of the Graduate Music Therapy Program in the Creative Arts Therapy Department at the college. She is also the co-founder of Prelude Music Therapy and the author of “Music Heard So Deeply: A Music Therapy Memoir.” The 2015 book shares stories from 30 years of musical therapy practice, including work with stroke survivors.
The title of King’s presentation for the support group is “Music and Therapy: Great Partners.”
This support group is open to individuals who have experienced a stroke, as well as their loved ones and caregivers. The group facilitator is stroke-certified registered nurse Sarah Gallagher, the stroke coordinator at F.F. Thompson Hospital.
To sign up for the May 6 Zoom meeting, email Sarah_Gallagher@URMC.Rochester.edu. Call (585) 396-6965 for more information.
F.F. Thompson Hospital is a New York State Department of Health-designated Stroke Center and recipient of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally accepted, research-based guidelines.