Adding a Powerful Voice to Health Care

ASPR produces the weekly syndicated interview program “Conversations on Health Care,” which recently featured acclaimed opera star Renée Fleming.

She’s received worldwide praise for singing at the Super Bowl, during a presidential inauguration and regularly for The Metropolitan Opera, but we helped her find a way to share her voice in a new way. Fleming is the editor of “Music and Mind,” a curated collection of essays from leading scientists, artists, creative arts therapists, educators and health care providers about the powerful impacts of music and the arts on health and the human experience.

Fleming appeared on “Conversations on Health Care” to explain how she discovered her own music and mind connection early in her career when she had back pain and how a dinner with three Supreme Court justices led her to become an unexpected advocate for neuroscience.

Fleming, a five-time Grammy award winner, also told hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter what happened when she saw the results of a functional MRI experiment she took and what it means for all of us.

This special edition of “Conversations on Health Care” continued with guest Dr. Francis Collins, the former National Institutes of Health director, who wrote the foreword to the book. https://chcradio.com/episode/Ren%C3%A9e-Fleming/721