40th Annual PAMA International Symposium
Live Event Thursday, June 23 – Sunday, June 26, 2022 in Chicago Illinois.
Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile
633 North St. Clair Street, Chicago, Illinois
This event was recorded and is available to attendees until January 31, 2023. Please use your login and password to the PAMA conference app to view the recordings. Simply use the agenda to move around between sessions. If you need assistance, please contact Dorry Allen at services@artsmed.org.
RegisterThursday, June 23 - Sunday, June 26, 2022
The PAMA symposium is designed to meet the research and practice needs of physicians, therapists, athletic trainers, educators, artistic directors, and other health care and performing arts professionals who seek to improve the well-being of performing artists.
The PAMA symposium fosters an environment full of education, networking, and growth all to support the health and well being of the performing artist. We hope you will join us this June at the home facility of one of our founders, Dr. Alice G. Brandfonbrener.
This event was recorded and is available to attendees until January 31, 2023. Please use your login and password to the PAMA conference app to view the recordings. Simply use the agenda to move around between sessions. If you need assistance, please contact Dorry Allen at services@artsmed.org.
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Partnership Statement
This activity is jointly provided by Your CE Source and Performing Arts Medicine Association.
Educational Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
Agenda
Faculty / Content Developers
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Your CE Source and Performing Arts Medicine Association. Your CE Source is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Your CE Source designates this live activity for a maximum of 23.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Your CE Source is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider approved by California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #16031 for 23.25 contact hours.
Disclosure Statement
Your CE Source ensures balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all our educational activities. In accordance with this policy, Your CE Source identifies conflicts of interest with its instructors, planners, content managers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of an activity.
The following faculty, planner and/or content manager reported the following financial relationship with ineligible companies whose products or services may be mentioned in this CE activity:
All faculty, planner and/or content managers and staff with Your CE Source or Performing Arts Medicine Association have nothing to disclose nor do they have any vested interests or affiliations.
Disclaimer Statement
The content, views and opinions presented in this educational activity are those of the faculty/authors and do not necessarily reflect those of Your CE Source and/or Performing Arts Medicine Association. The faculty/authors have disclosed if there is any discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA in their presentations. Before prescribing any medicine, primary references and full prescribing information should be consulted. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management.
Download Current Symposium Schedule (as of June 21) Subject to Change
7:00 am – Registration
8:00 am – Opening Session
9:15 – Noon – Lederman Lecturer; Plenary Sessions
1:15 – 5:00 pm – Panel Discussions; Workshops
5:00 pm – Adjourn
6:30 – 8:00 pm – Salons (optional registration)
8:00 am – Tribute to Alice G. Brandfonbrener
8:30 – Noon – Alice G. Brandfonbrener Young Investigator Award Presentation; Weapons Safety Keynote; Plenary Sessions
1:00 – 5:00 pm – Panel Discussions; Workshops; Methods Keynote
5:00 pm – Adjourn
8:00 – 11:45 am – Plenary Sessions; Panel Discussions; Workshops
1:00 – 3:15 pm – Panel Discussions; Plenary Sessions
3:45 pm – PAMA Annual General Meeting; Poster Winners Announced
5:00 pm – Adjourn
8:00 – 10:45 am – Plenary Sessions; Workshops
10:45 am – Symposium Closing Remarks
11:15 am – Symposium Adjourn
This event was recorded and is available to attendees until January 31, 2023. Please use your login and password to the PAMA conference app to view the recordings. Simply use the agenda to move around between sessions. If you need assistance, please contact Dorry Allen at services@artsmed.org.
All fees are in US Dollars. Click here to register.
*Student/Resident must be enrolled full-time in an accredited program and provide proof of credit hours during registration.
All fees are in US Dollars. Click here to register.
*Student/Resident must be enrolled full-time in an accredited program and provide proof of credit hours during registration.
This event was recorded and is available to attendees until January 31, 2023. Please use your login and password to the PAMA conference app to view the recordings. Simply use the agenda to move around between sessions. If you need assistance, please contact Dorry Allen at services@artsmed.org.
PAMA is thrilled to offer our attendees a great discounted rate at the symposium hotel, the Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile.
You will be able to stay where the symposium takes place in downtown Chicago. The ease of simply taking an elevator ride down to the conference area of the Hyatt is a great way to further enjoy your time in Chicago.
Click here to take a 360 tour of the hotel
Hyatt Centric Mag Mile Facility Guide
Help us meet our required room block by staying at the symposium hotel!
Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile
633 North St. Clair Street, Chicago, IL 60611
Room Rate $219
The Hyatt Centric is one block from the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab—an easy walk between buildings. We hope you will stay with us at the Hyatt for the convenience, the networking, and the excitement of it all. See you in Chicago! 
Use this link to get the PAMA discount rate!!
Dr. Nancy Byl is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at UCSF. Dr. Byl has received numerous awards including becoming a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and received the Lucy Blair Service Award. She is currently the President of the Physical Therapy Fund which supports research for young physical therapy investigators. Dr. Byl currently provides specialty lectures in the academic program, provides patient care in the UCSF PT Health and Wellness Center and is involved in multiple clinical research studies involving rehabilitation technology and exercise programs for patients post stroke and post Parkinson’s Disease.
Toronzo Cannon’s music was described by the Chicago Tribune as “deep, contemporary Chicago blues…razor-sharp guitar and compelling, forceful singing.” Over the last decade, Toronzo has emerged as an international ambassador for Chicago Blues. He’s been nominated for ten Blues Music Awards, the Grammy of the blues world. Toronzo has cut five career albums, the last two for Chicago’s famed Alligator Records. His most recent, The Preacher, The Politician Or The Pimp was released just before the pandemic. He’s writing now for another album and expects to be in the studio in the next few months.
A Chicago boogie woogie innovator and master, has been forging his own piano music legacy. Erwin has been playing and performing for over forty years. The sounds and personalities of past boogie woogie and blues pianists have nurtured Erwin's musical growth. For many years, Erwin accompanied Mama Yancey, the wife of Chicago blues piano patriarch Jimmy "Papa" Yancey, and later recorded one album with her. He was also mentored and influenced by Cripple Clarence Lofton, Speckled Red, and Sunnyland Slim. Erwin has the chops, the feel, and the drive of the masters but he also pushes the "classic" blues piano music forward in a totally new direction. He performs regularly at Chicago clubs and annually at the Chicago Blues Festival garnering rave reviews from publications such as The Reader and Chicago Magazine.
Bruce Iglauer is the president and founder of Alligator Records, the largest contemporary blues label in the world. Iglauer founded the Chicago-based label in 1971, at the age of 23. Alligator’s catalog contains over 350 CDs, over 120 produced by Iglauer. 26 of the albums he’s produced have been nominated for Grammy Awards. Alligator releases have won dozens of Blues Music Awards, the highest award the blues world presents. Bruce has managed the careers of Koko Taylor, Lonnie Brooks, Albert Collins, Son Seals and others. He has also toured extensively with Alligator artists. In addition, he is a founder of the Chicago Blues Festival. Iglauer is also the co-author of “Bitten By The Blues,” published in 2018 by University of Chicago Press. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1997.
J. Matt McCrary, PhD is a multidisciplinary researcher with diverse expertise in music physiology, exercise science, clinical research, and music performance. His current research at the Institute of Music Physiology and Musicians’ Medicine in Hannover, Germany aims to better understand the physiologic effects of playing and listening to music to: 1) inform healthier and more productive practice planning in high-level musicians; and 2) determine how playing and listening to music can be used to reduce non-communicable disease risk (e.g. cancer; heart disease) in the general population. His research has been recognized and supported by Fulbright (US/ Australia) and Humboldt (US/Germany) Fellowships and grants and awards from performing arts medicine, neuroscience, cancer, biomedical science, and music performance organizations in Australia, Germany, the UK and the US.
Flynn Smith has been working in the film industry since 2006. Originally based in Saint Louis, he has lived and worked in various locations across the United States including Wilmington NC, New Orleans, and currently, Chicago. Most notably he has been The Assistant Property Master for the NBC television show Chicago PD since 2016, working closely with actors and stunt performers in the use of firearms on set.
We are thrilled to bring back the PAMA Participant Performance! This highly anticipated event is a fantastic way to showcase the many talents of our attendees and presenters.
If you have a performing arts talent and you would like to perform during the Participant Performance on Saturday evening, please send your information to Deanna McBroom at mcbroomd@yahoo.com
The PAMA symposium is designed to meet the research and practice needs of physicians, therapists, athletic trainers, educators, artistic directors, and other health care and performing arts professionals who seek to improve the well-being of performing artists.
All professionals and students are encouraged to submit an abstract. Submissions are not restricted to PAMA members. For information about what type of abstract you should submit, please download and read the guidelines below.
Authors are responsible for submitting abstracts that follow the published guidelines. Please download and read the guidelines before submitting your abstract.
Download the PAMA Abstract Guidelines (.pdf – includes blinding instructions)
Download the Abstract Worksheets (.zip)
Download the Presenter Guidelines (.pdf)
Questions:
PAMA Research Committee Chair at artsmedresearch@gmail.com
Dorry Allen at services@artsmed.org
The Alice G. Brandfonbrener Young Investigator Award, (AGB Award), is given to an investigator in recognition of recently completed original research. The recipient is either still enrolled or is a recent graduate of an educational, training or residency program. The research and paper is usually the result of one of the first significant studies made by the author. The research and paper is not previously published to be considered for this award.
A $300 honorarium is awarded to the recipient of the AGB Award. In addition, a stipend is provided for travel expenses to the Symposium on Medical Problems of Performing Artists to present the paper.
At the Symposium, the time allotment for presentation is 25 minutes for the lecture and an additional 5 minutes for questions. The President of PAMA will introduce the award winner and present the award.
For more information or questions, contact:
Julie Massaro executive@artsmed.org
This scholarship is in memory of the late Dr. Martin Brandfonbrener of Chicago, Illinois.
Criteria for selection:
The award includes:
