GCSOM Hosts Schemel Forum Collaborative Program
From left, are: Julie Byerley, M.D., president, Geisinger College of Health Sciences and executive vice president and chief academic officer, Geisinger; Richard Kogan, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and artistic director of Weill Cornell Music and Medicine; George Aulisio, Ph.D., Dean of the Weinberg Memorial Library at The University of Scranton, and Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, Ph.D., provost, and senior vice president for academic affairs at The University of Scranton.The University of Scranton’s Schemel Forum Collaborative Program with Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (GCSOM) presented the concert lecture “Ragtime: The Mind and Music of Scott Joplin.” The talk was presented by Richard Kogan, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and artistic director of Weill Cornell Music and Medicine, who interspersed his narrative with performances of “Maple Leaf Rag,” “The Entertainer” and other ragtime classics. The event took place on Apr. 25 at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
