Mayo Clinic's Music is Good Medicine Program will Host Jeanette Morelan, Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2010

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

WHAT: Glenn Harman, M.D., a Mayo Clinic consultant in Medical Oncology, and an accomplished pianist, will accompany Jeanette Morelan, Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2010, during her vocal performance for May's Music is Good Medicine program. Dr. Harman has a "secondary career" performing on the piano and oboe/English horn. He has played throughout North America, Hungary and the Philippines as a solo pianist and as a duo-pianist. He and his former duo-piano partner, Jeffrey Arnold, were invited to perform a recital in New York's Carnegie Hall in 1995. In the past six months he has performed the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with three different organizations in Ohio, North Carolina and Minnesota.

As Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2010, Morelan is traveling the country raising funds for the organization and encouraging others to volunteer. Recently Morelan was chosen to serve as a youth adviser for fundraising and volunteering on the Teen Advisory Council for Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

WHEN: 12:15 p.m. Thursday, May 20, 2010

WHERE: Nathan Landow Atrium, Gonda Building
100 Third Ave. S.W.

NOTE: The program is free of charge and open to the public. Sponsored by the Officers and Councilors of Mayo Clinic, Music is Good Medicine is intended to share musical talents of voting and consulting staff with patients and employees, an expression that music is truly good medicine.

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