Laurel Pickering in the Wall Street Journal

An article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal quotes Laurel Pickering, NYBGH's Executive Director, as she participated last week in a roundtable hosted by the Foundation for Art & Healing. The article showcases how art can help people heal and can be found here. Convening thought leaders from the medical, academic, public health, arts, and business communities, the Arts and the Heart Campaign roundtable was held to explore the relationships between creative expression and healing while also discussing how greater recognition and practice of the concept can happen. Some of the other roundtable participants included Robert Butler, MD, the founder of the International Longevity Center; Steven Safyer, MD, CEO of Montefiore Medical Center; and Edward Hirsch, a poet and the President of the Guggenheim Foundation.