Joseph Schlesinger, MD, FCCM

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A professor's quest to bring music and medicine together in the ICU | NPR (WPLN News)

Publication - Designing Novel Visual Physiologic Monitor Displays for Patient Care

Doctor combines love of music and medicine in Nashville - News Channel 5 (Nashville)

Publication - Comparing auditory and vibrotactile alarms to inform clinicians of patients' vital signs under varied workload conditions

Publication - Perception of Therapeutic Music in Community Settings

Publication - Auditory and visual alarm designs impact clinicians’ perceived cognitive workload - Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing

Publication - The future of music and arts in medicine and health

Publication - Sonic overload, Alarm annoyance and its ripple effects on clinicians and patients

Publication - Detection and Discrimination of Auditory Alerts in Single- and Dual-Task Conditions: Use of a Free-Response Method | Military Medicine | Oxford Academic

Publication - Utilizing virtual reality to improve ICU visual displays

Publication - Improved pointer in auditory alarms enhances response accuracy

Dr. Schlesinger featured in Scientific American - Making Alarms More Musical Can Save Lives

Conference Proceedings - Amplitude Envelope and Timbre in Medical Alarms

Watermelon Man performed by Dr. Schlesinger viewed with an EEG Spectrogram

Dr. Schlesinger featured in EW (The Netherlands) - Het ziekenhuis mag wel wat stiller

Publication - Patients’ Perceptions of Virtual Live Music in the Intensive Care Unit

Publication - A Spatiotemporal and Multisensory Approach to Designing Wearable Clinical ICU Alarms

Press Release - Therapeutic Music Program with the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) & AARP

Proceedings of Acoustics Week in Canada 2023 Conference

Publication - Effects of altering harmonic structure on the recognition of simulated auditory arterial pressure alarms

Press Release - Discoveries in Medicine - CanaryBox Improves OR Team Reaction Times

Publication - Ten Years Later, Alarm Fatigue Is Still a Safety Concern

Publication - Music in Medicine: Novel Use of an Ancient Medium

Publication - Auditory roughness: a delicate balance (BJA)

Publication - Medical Alarms: Critical, Yet Challenging

Publication - Improving auditory alarms: Reducing perceived annoyance with musical timbre (a randomized trial)

Publication - Multisensory alarm to benefit alarm identification and decrease workload: a feasibility study

Publication - Detectability of alarms and amplitude envelope (British Journal of Anaesthesia)

Publication - Formal music training and speech comprehension

Publication - Smartwatch auditory icons

Publication - Music volume modulation in the OR

Publication - Haptic alerts for ICU nurses

Publication - Auditory icons improve attention shifting across sensory modalities

Publication - Filtering alarm sounds out of the patient experience

Publication - Alarms can be softer than background noise

Joe Schlesinger Jazz - YouTube

International Association for Music & Medicine - (Vice President)

Dr. Schlesinger with Yoko Sen - The Experience Lab

Dr. Schlesinger in the New York Times - Auditory Icon Alarms

Dr. Schlesinger on CNN - The Science of Sleep

Dr. Schlesinger featured on 99% Invisible - Sound and Health

Dr. Schlesinger featured in WIRED UK - Music in the OR

Dr. Schlesinger on Noise Annoys - WHYY (NPR)

1.) Dr. Schlesinger featured on Global News (Canada - BJA publication)

2.) Dr. Schlesinger featured on Global News (Canada - BJA publication)

Dr. Schlesinger featured in Medical Economics (BJA release)

Dr. Schlesinger featured with Dr. Michael Schutz and the MAPLE Lab on Canadian TV