Art in Medicine
Training Medical Students
in the Use of Creative Expression to Improve Elder Care
Instructors
Gary Glazner,
Alzheimer's Poetry Project
505-577-2250
garyglaznerpoet@gmail.com
Brief Bio
Gary Glazner is the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, (APP). The APP was the recipient of the 2013, Innovations in Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiving Legacy Award and the 2012 MetLife Foundation Creativity and Aging in America Leadership Award. The National Endowment for the Arts listed the APP as a “best practice.” NBC's “Today” show, PBS NewsHour and NPR's “All Things Considered” have featured segments on Glazner’s work. Glazner is the author of Dementia Arts: Celebrating Creativity in Elder Care, 2014. The APP has provided programming in 26 states and internationally in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Poland and South Korea.
Cynthia A. Standley, PhD
Professor, Basic Medical Sciences
602-827-2148
cstand@email.arizona.edu
Brief Bio
Cynthia A. Standley, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanism at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. Dr. Standley is an accomplished medical educator with more than 20 years experience teaching physiology to both osteopathic and allopathic medical students. She was formerly among the inaugural faculty at Midwestern University’s Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine (AZCOM) and also an inaugural faculty member at the School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona (SOMA) associated with A T. Still University.