A series of interviews with presenters and participants at the Music and Health Research Institute's annual conference at The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. This episode serves as an introduction to the ongoing work of institute members in the field of Music and Health research and practice.

Lucas Marchand (Interviewer, Post-production, Content generation, Producer)

Learn more: https://www.uottawa.ca/research-innovation/music-health

0:02 | host introduction.
0:45 | Interview with Kayla Carter of Xenia Concerts https://xeniaconcerts.com/
4:37 | Interview with Carlotte Gagnon of Opéra de Montréal's Opera Impact Program https://www.operademontreal.com/en/outreach-and-education
7:26 | Interview with Dr. Carol Wiebe of Radical Connections https://www.radicalconnections.ca/
10:39 | Interview with Nicola Oddy https://nicolaoddy.com/
14:02 | Interview with Diane Kolin of Arts Ably https://www.artsably.com/

Original music written and recorded by Lucas Marchand

Nicole Chu from the University of Ottawa speaks with Dr. Javed Butler. Dr. Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, is the President of the Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, and Senior Vice President and Maxwell A. and Gayle H. Clampitt Endowed Chair at the Baylor Scott and White Health in Dallas, Texas. He is also the Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of Mississippi in Jackson, Mississippi. In this episode, Dr. Butler shares with us the major findings from the recent EMPACT-MI clinical trial and his perspective on the future of heart failure therapies. The EMPACT-MI trial investigated whether a medicine called empagliflozin, a SGLT2 inhibitor, helps to lower the risk of heart failure and death in people had experienced a heart attack (myocardial infarction).

Learn more about the EMPACT-MI clinical trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206286

Ryan Tu speaks with Dr. Emmanuel Stamatakis, a professor of physical activity, lifestyle, and population health at the University of Sydney, and a NHMRC Leadership 2 Fellow. Dr. Stamatakis focuses on cohort study-based research to correlate physical exercise to health. In this episode, Dr. Stamatakis explains his role in the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting and Sleep consortium (ProPASS), how this helped him lead the development of activity guidelines for the World Health Organization, and how exercise is incorporated to the daily routine.

Learn more: https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/emmanuel-stamatakis.html

Episode produced by Nicole Chu and hosted by Ryan Tu.