Jazz, Equity & Brain Health

Event Details

Join the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM), UC San Francisco Memory and Aging Center (UCSF MAC) and Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Association, in an exchange on jazz, equity and brain health.

This event will explore othering and belonging through the lens of jazz music and neuroscience; building community through jazz and brain health equity; and the power of empathy, listening, and inclusion in jazz and dementia work. Presenters will consider the ideas of resilience, empathy, improvisation, equity, inclusion, belonging—as well as the social and genetic determinants of brain health—and how they relate to jazz, a musical genre that welcomes and celebrates individual diversity and freedom.

This is the fourth event in a series produced by SFCM, UCSF MAC and GBHI. It will take place during Addressing Health Disparities, a virtual conference hosted by the Alzheimer's Association.

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Presenters

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Amelie Anna, Percussionist, Vocalist, Composer; SFCM
Maria Carrillo, Chief Science Officer, Alzheimer’s Association
Viven Lou Chen, Reporter, Drummer, Caregiver
Jennie Gubner, Ethnomusicologist; University of Arizona; Atlantic Fellow
Jason Hainsworth, Director, Roots, Jazz, and American Music; Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Jazz Saxophone, SFCM
Kai Kennedy, Physical Therapist, UCSF; GBHI Faculty; Atlantic Fellow
Josh Kornbluth, Performer, Writer, Film- & Video-Maker; Atlantic Fellow
Serggio Lanata, Neurologist, UCSF; GBHI Faculty
Bruce Miller, Co-Director, GBHI; Director, UCSF MAC
Scott Pingel, Principal Bass, San Francisco Symphony; SFCM Faculty
David Stull, President, SFCM
Victor Valcour, Executive Director, GBHI
Jennifer Yokoyama, Neurogeneticist, UCSF; GBHI Faculty