Expert advice
Many members of the World Doctors Orchestra provide specialist healthcare to professional musicians as well as other professionals working in the performing arts. It is within this context that the orchestra has developed an information resource of organizations across the world that have developed to enhance healthcare to musicians and other performing artists. The below represent a sample of internet links to national and international centres and organisations providing medical and therapeutic information, training and support to musicians and other performing artists.
International resource organisations
International Society for Arts and Medicine (ISfAM)
Performing Arts Medicine Association
British Association of Performing Arts Medicine
Australian Society for Performing Arts Medicine
German Association for Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine
Austrian Society for Performing Arts Health & Music Psychology (ÖGfMM)
French Association of Arts Medicine
Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, American Psychological Association
Performing Arts Special Interest Group (PASIG), American Physical Therapy Association
Medical Problems of Performing Artists (Scientific Journal)
Academic and research centres
Berlin Center for Musicians Medicine (BCMM)
Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians' Medicine, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media
European Association of Cognitive Sciences of Music
German Society for Music Psychology
Texas Center for Performing Arts Health
Performing Arts Medicine MSc, University College London
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