With forty-one years of experience in the musical products industry, C. Terry Lewis was Executive Vice President of the Yamaha Corporation of America until 2008 and was in charge of U.S. musical instrument operations in the U.S., the largest in the industry. He also served as President of two Yamaha subsidiary companies, Yamaha Artist Services, Inc. in New York City and President of Yamaha Corporate Artist Affairs, Inc. in Franklin, Tennessee.

He is now President of International Business Resources, Ltd., a consulting practice serving the music industry, and he also serves as Chairman of the Yamaha Music and Wellness Institute which he co-founded in 2005 with CEO and noted neurologist Dr. Barry Bittman and the late Karl T. Bruhn.Mr. Lewis has been frequently quoted in trade, news and business journals and other media including The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Business Radio Network, Newshour, CNN and PBS. Mr. Lewis holds an MBA from Pepperdine University and occasionally serves as guest faculty for the school. He lives near San Diego in Bonsall, CA with his wife, Sue.

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Art of Healing

Barry Bittman, MD is a neurologist, author, international speaker, award-winning producer/director and inventor. AS CEO and President of the Yamaha Music & Wellness Institute, Dr. Bittman has served as the principal researcher for several peer-reviewed, published scientific investigations focused on the impact of creative musical expression in the bio-psychosocial and genomic realms.

As the host of the first nationally-syndicated integrative medicine weekly Public Radio program, Mind-Body Matters, Dr. Bittman interviewed 115 of the world's leading visionaries. Dr. Bittman's more than 250 articles on a host of integrative medical topics have been published in his newspaper column, Mind Over Matter. Dr. Bittman has been featured on CNN Headline News as well as in numerous leading publications throughout the world, including USA Today, Business Week, Time, Prevention, Discover, O (Oprah Magazine), the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, Scientific American and numerous other leading publications.

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Art of Healing

Cities and Art and culture fascinate Eduardo Garcia.His interest in how art, in all of its forms, unites humanity in an increasing “Global Village”. He has two degrees in Architecture, A Bachelor of Architecture and A Masters in Experimental Architecture from the University of Colorado in Denver.

He wrote and produced a film entitled “Llama la Luna” – “ The Pull of the Moon”. Exploring the relationship between utopian architecture and human desire and told through his original flamenco compositions, his film won the Premio Mesquite award from the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Cine-festival.  Additionally, he is a recipient of several awards, including the San Antonio Business Journal- Forty under Forty award (received at age 25), Texas Downtown Association Design awards and Design Excellence award for his design of Artisans Alley in San Antonio.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation recognized him for his efforts through receipt of the National Emerging Preservation Leaders Award. He has been appointed to serve on the board of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, and the mayoral appointment to the City of San Antonio Public Art Board, where he also serves as a member of the executive committee.

While in San Antonio, Eduardo has designed and worked on several large-scale projects ranging from the University of Texas at San Antonio-Downtown Campus and design assistance/project management at Main Plaza where he has written and implemented public art plans. Presently Eduardo is on the design team for the $650 Million Dollar University Hospital in San Antonio.  In addition to contributing to the design of the project, he leads the efforts to write and implement a public art and design enhancement plan for the hospital, allocating $6 Million Dollars for this component. This responsibility helped him form the organization Salud-Arte as an art in healing program along with curator Allison Hays Lane. He recently traveled to Germany to work on a gift of art from the City of San Antonio.

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Art of Healing


 

Maegan Morrow graduated from Sam Houston State University and received her advanced fellowship training in Neurologic Music Therapy at the The Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, maintained at Colorado State University.  She is a Board Certified Music Therapist with the American Music Therapy Association and she works at TIRR/Memorial Hermann. She is also a Certified Brain Injury Specialist and has spent most of her career with the Brain Injury and Stroke population in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. She is also an internship supervisor on the National Roster of Internship sites under the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). She has been practicing for eight years as a clinician. She is also a performing artist and guitar teacher. She is well known for her work with the recent patient and congresswoman at TIRR/ Memorial Hermann. She has been featured in the media including: Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s medical interviews on CNN, Newsweek, and on the Grammys.com.

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Art of Healing

Daniel Stover is a woodwind performer from Houston, TX.  In July 2008, he suffered a near-fatal hemorrhagic stroke which left him unable to use his left hand and took away his ability to play.  While he returned to teaching in October 2009 at a much reduced capacity, not being able to play was leaving a large sense of musical emptiness and led to Daniel having his saxophone converted to the toggle-key system developed by Jeff Stelling and David Nabb of Kearney, NE as part of the One-Handed Woodwinds project (onehandwinds.unk.edu).

Upon completion of the conversion of his saxophone in January 2012, Daniel has finally been able to play again and is working arduously to develop his competency on the new mechanism, with the goal of returning to professional concert performance, as well as a more normal teaching schedule.

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Art of Healing