Medical & Law Enforcement Services.
Take care of your people so they can take care of others. Let us help.
Time-strapped medical and law enforcement personnel operate in highly visual professions and face stressful and unpredictable environments. Our goal is to empower your team’s sense of connection -- to self, mission, and colleagues -- in a creative, calming, and compassionate way. Your team sharpens their communication and observation skills, builds resilience, and reduces anxiety all while developing greater empathy for the patient or community member.
“Erin has the gift of making you see in art what you hadn’t seen before. In the same vein that a trained musician hears the orchestra’s whole and parts at once, and Arthur Conan Doyle sleuths Sherlock Holmes mysteries as a physician formulates a differential diagnosis, her approaches bring the artist’s work to life and raise endless possibilities.”
Phillip L. Pearl, M.D.
President, Child Neurology Society
Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology,
William G. Lennox Chair, Boston Children's Hospital
Institute for Music and Health, Berklee College of Music
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Visual arts based professional development.
These services can be offered virtually or in-person (or a combination!). Zoom is our preferred virtual platform.
“My dad was a career Marine, my mom worked in criminal justice and investigation, and my husband is a doctor and former EMT. I directly witnessed the sacrifices, the long hours, the dedication to serving others. So, I feel passionate about bringing my expertise to these fields.”
VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES SESSIONS
medical practitioners/healthcare workers
firefighters/EMTs
police officers
law enforcement
ARTS-IN-MEDICINE LECTURE, ACCOMPANIED
BY DR. CHRISTOPHER YUSKAITIS
Synesthesia: The Colors of Sound
Visual Thinking Strategies and Medical Applications
The Neuroaesthetics of Landscape Paintings
ARTS-IN-MEDICINE EDUCATIONAL 8-WEEK
WORKSHOP SERIES
includes Visual Thinking Strategies sessions, arts-in-medicine lectures, reflective activities, narrative medicine components, and stress relief exercises for healthcare practitioners
About Our Medical Collaborator
Christopher J. Yuskaitis, MD, PhD, is a physician-scientist studying the molecular mechanisms underlying early brain development and epileptogenesis. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction in Cognitive Science with emphasis in neuroscience at the University of Virginia. He then received his Doctorate of Medicine and Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham through the NIH supported Medical Scientist Training Program. He completed his pediatrics training in the Boston Combined Residency Program followed by child neurology residency and neurogenetics fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital. Currently, he is an Instructor of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School focusing on infantile spasms, genetics underlying early brain malformations, and the role of nutrient sensing in early brain development. Initially a music major in college, Chris discovered his interest in the intersection between music and medicine while playing the oboe in the symphony and bass drum in the drumline at the University of Florida. After transferring to the University of Virginia, he continued his work as a musician playing the oboe and English horn in the Charlottesville Symphony. Today, he’s a member of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra. He is the author of numerous medical publications and lectures nationally and internationally.