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Rutgers University Medical School | The psyche-soma connection: Helping babies with medical illness and their families tell their story through their nonverbal “bodily-felt” experience (New Jersey)

Thursday, March 16, 2023
9:00 AM 10:30 AM

Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 125 Paterson Street Room D203 New Brunswick, NJ, 08901 United States (map)

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The psyche-soma connection: Helping babies with medical illness and their families tell their story through their nonverbal “bodily-felt” experience

Time:

Thursday, March 16, 2023

9- 10:30 AM

Location:

Hybrid event offered in-person at the Rutgers University Robert John Woods School of Medicine in New Brunswick, NJ and online on Zoom.

Course Description:

Dr. Suzi Totora and Dr. Miri Keren present work from their new book, “The psyche-soma connection: Helping babies with medical illness and their families tell their story through their nonverbal “bodily-felt” experience” at psychiatric grand rounds at Rutgers University Medical School.

About the Instructors

Suzi Tortora Ed.D., BC-DMT, CMA, LCAT, LMHC, NCC, is the Founder/Director of Dancing Dialogue, a private creative arts psychotherapy practice in Cold Spring, NY and NYC, specializing in parent- infant/child and family therapy; trauma; medical illness; and adult chronic pain. She is the International Medical Creative Arts Spokesperson for the Andréa Rizzo Foundation, having created in 2003, and is the senior dance/movement therapist for Integrative Medicine Service, MSK Kids, NYC. She teaches & holds faculty positions nationally and internationally and offers an International Webinar Training Program for dance/movement therapists and allied professionals. She has published extensively and her book, The Dancing Dialogue: Using the communicative power of movement with young children is used widely in DMT training.

Miri Keren, M.D., was the founder and past director of the community-based infant mental health unit, affiliated to Geha Mental Health Center in Petah-Tiqwa (1996-2020). She implemented and supervised 6 units of Infant Psychiatry across Israel. She is in the position of Clinical and Research Consultant at the Bar Ilan University Affiliated University Hospital, at the Beit Izi Shapira Center for disabled infants and toddlers, and at the FTT unit of the Schneider Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Keren served as President of the World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) in the years 2012-2016, and received the WAIMH Leibovici Award in June 2021.