2025 world voice day
Music as Medicine
Wednesday, april 16, 2025
4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Music Hall • corbett tower
Join us for a remarkable celebration of the healing power of music at the 2025 World Voice Day: Music as Medicine event, hosted by the University of Cincinnati Department of Otolaryngology in partnership with the UC Osher Center for Integrative Health, Cincinnati Opera, Miami University, and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. This unique event will feature live performances by the Miami University Choraliers, voice students from CCM and Miami, and Cincinnati Opera artists, plus interactive demonstrations, mindfulness meditation, and more. Discover how music and voice intersect with health and wellness.
This event is free and open to all; registration is required.
2025 World Voice Day:
Music as medicine
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
4:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m
Music Hall • Corbett Tower
1241 Elm Street • Cincinnati, OH 45202
Discover how music and voice intersect with health and wellness. Admission is free; reservations are required.
guest speakers
Betsey Nuseibeh, MM, MEd, MT-BC
Betsey is a board-certified music therapist and PhD candidate in the School of Public Health, Indiana University-Bloomington. She is also an NIH T32 Fellow in Interdisciplinary Training in Biobehavioral Oncology, Indiana University-Indianapolis. Betsey has worked in the field of music and music therapy in Cincinnati for over 20 years, most recently as the founder and Executive Director of Melodic Connections, a music therapy-based non-profit. Betsey’s research focuses on improving health-related quality of life for cancer survivors using music interventions. Currently she is examining the effects of singing on heart rate variability to improve stress response and decrease symptoms of depression and anxiety with breast cancer survivors.
Sian Cotton, PhD
Sian Cotton, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, founding director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health and the Turner Farm Foundation Chair at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. A Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Division Director for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Cotton has an active research lab with ongoing clinical studies focusing primarily on mindfulness-based interventions and integrative medicine practice-based research. She is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Academic Consortium of Integrative Medicine and Health, a group of over 85 leading academic health centers and served as 1 of 8 Congress Co-Presidents for the 2nd World Congress on Integrative Medicine in Rome September 2023. Dr. Cotton is often invited to speak with community organizations and businesses, healthcare audiences, and academics about mind-body medicine for stress reduction, and preventive and wellness-based approaches to healthcare.
