Month: April 2025

al-Kindi

al-Kindi

Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (/ælˈkɪndi/; Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Latin: Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab Muslim polymath active as a philosopher, mathematician, physician, and music theorist. Al-Kindi was the first of the Islamic peripatetic philosophers, and is hailed as the "father of Arab philosophy".[4][5][6] Al-Kindi was born in Kufa and educated in Baghdad.[7] He Read more [...]
Abu Bakr al-Razi

Abu Bakr al-Razi

Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, also known as Rhazes[a] (full name: أبو بکر محمد بن زکریاء الرازي, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī),[b] c. 864 or 865–925 or 935 CE,[c] was a Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age. He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of medicine,[1] and also wrote on logic, astronomy and grammar.[2] He Read more [...]
Katherine Zhou

Katherine Zhou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhC0-OseRKI https://medicine.duke.edu/profile/katherine-zhou What are your interests outside of medicine?I like to play the carillon. I haven't made it to the Duke Chapel carillon yet, but I hope to sometime. I also like traveling with family, and watching shows with my fiancé in our free time. katherine.i.zhou@duke.edu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgKBNCyll6E&pp=ygUXS2F0aGVyaW5lIFpob3UgY2FyaWxsb24%3D Read more [...]
Josef Wyser

Josef Wyser

In northern Switzerland, near Solothurn, lies the village of Nennigkofen, where the family doctor takes his leisurely rides in his carriage. That looks like fun!

Grace Chan

Grace Chan

Organist and carillonist Grace Chan is a PhD Candidate at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music researching organ and carillon performance/ culture in Australia. Grace has performed on all three carillons Australia. She was a carillon student at the National Carillon, Canberra from 2018-2022. In July 2019, she was invited to perform the world premiere of an Australian carillon work at the Palau de la Generalitat Carillon, Barcelona. Grace has performed for Sydney University Graduation ceremonies Read more [...]
Andrea McCrady

Andrea McCrady

Canada’s dominion carilloneur says her students practise in the Peace Tower and their mistakes are broadcast to Parliament Hill. Andrea McCrady has been playing the bell instrument since 1971. (Oct. 13, 2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU4LPFSA6as Dr. Andrea McCrady was appointed Dominion Carillonneur of the Peace Tower Carillon in 2008. She began playing the carillon in 1971 at Trinity College, Hartford, CT (B.A., 1975). While in Europe on a post-graduate fellowship, she studied Read more [...]
Gunther Strothmann

Gunther Strothmann

Dr. Gunther Strothmann worked as a doctor in Kiel until the end of 2006. After graduating from high school in Bremen, he took piano, organ, improvisation, and composition lessons from Ernst Hörbe (1921–2012), among others. After studying medicine in Kiel, he began his musical activities as a performing organist. In 1977, he founded the Melsdorf Symphony Orchestra, an amateur ensemble that has since grown to more than 80 players as a project orchestra. In 1999, Strothmann founded the Klassikensemble Read more [...]
Tom Tarter

Tom Tarter

A decade out of med school, Tom was confident in his ability to handle any case that came into the emergency department at Bloomington Hospital. In need of some doctoring NOVA: Are you glad you became a doctor? Tom Tarter: I couldn't imagine myself doing anything else but what I do. Well, that's not entirely true—I could be a mechanic. But I do love emergency medicine. I just love it. Q: I can tell. You light up when you talk about it. Tom: Yeah. Q: Can Read more [...]
Thomas Edwin Ellenberger

Thomas Edwin Ellenberger

Wolfgang, I enjoyed viewing the hobbies listed on your website.  Most are more high-minded than mine.  In recent years I have resumed an old hobby from my mispent youth that might be properly characterized as "grease monkey-doc."  I restore old Porsche 911s in my spare time (attached photos) and find it to be very relaxing working with my hands. With Regards, Tom Read more [...]
Eric Schendel

Eric Schendel

Brief AutobiographyCopyright © 1998-2002 byEric Schendel, M.D. (Reproduced with permission) Hello! I am Eric Schendel, owner of The Lifestyle Doctor. I am a personal technology consultant and I also teach people how to successfully run a business from their home on their computer. Here is a brief summary of my background and interests. My family moved down to Mexico when I was seven and we lived there eleven years, mostly in a little town called San Miguel de Allende. When we returned Read more [...]