Lisa M. Wong, M.D. is a musician, pediatrician, and past president of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Wong graduated from Harvard University in East Asian Studies in 1979, and her M.D. from NYU School of Medicine in 1983. After completing her pediatric residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1986, she joined Milton Pediatrics Associates and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Along with her colleagues Dr. David Jones and Dr. Susan Pories, she co-chairs the newly created Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School.
Although she retired as President of the LSO in 2012 after her twenty-year tenure, Dr. Wong continues her involvement with the orchestra as a violinist in the section. In May 2016 she received an Honorary Doctorate in Education from Wheelock College and gave the Graduate Commencement Address. Her first book Scales to Scalpels: Doctors Who Practice the Healing Arts of Music and Medicine, co-written with Robert Viagas, was published in April 2012 by Pegasus Books. It was released as a paperback in May 2013, and recently translated into Chinese.
We are excited to hear Dr. Lisa Wong at our Virtual Event on May 9th as a guest speaker on music and mental health!
