IADMS

Election Information
Officers and Board Members-At-Large
2011-2013

Information and Biographies of All Nominees (PDF file)
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President (President-Elect 2009-2011)

Emma Redding
Emma Redding, PhD, is a dancer, dance educator and dance scientist. She has been a member of IADMS since 1999, a member of the Board since 2005 and was Chair of the Development Committee until last year. Emma is honored to serve the association as its President.

Emma danced professionally for a number of modern dance companies and now lives in London performing on a freelance basis. She teaches contemporary dance technique at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance; however her primary focus is on the leadership of the Dance Science Department. The MSc programme, which she co-authored in 2001, was the first of its kind in the world. In 2003, she brought the 13th IADMS Annual Meeting to Laban in London.

Emma’s research interests include interdisciplinary screening programmes, pedagogical considerations in technique class and the physiological requirements of dance training and performance. She has published original research in academic journals such as the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science; Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and Social Behaviour and Personality. Recently, Emma was awarded two substantial research grants to lead a three year investigation into talent development in dance among young people and a screening and profiling project for musicians and dancers. She is a reviewer for academic journals such as Journal of Dance Medicine & Science and International Journal of Sports Sciences as well as for various funding councils and trusts and is a member of the Editorial Board of Research in Dance Education. Most recently, she co-authored the new IADMS and Trinity College London Safe and Effective Dance Practice Qualification for teachers and choreographers. Emma has a passionate commitment to the vision and mission of IADMS and looks forward to working with its staff, members and the Board in advancing the organization.

Nominees for Vice President / President-Elect (3)

There is 1 position available.

(listed in alphabetical order)

Janet Karin
I am pleased to accept nomination for the position of Vice President of the Board of IADMS. My experience as a Board member has shown me that IADMS is in a particularly exciting, but also challenging, stage of development. With established credibility in the scientific, educational and artistic fields, it is poised and ready to influence the entire care and training of dancers, students and teachers. In fact, IADMS is contributing towards a major cultural shift in dance.

Helping lead this next stage of development requires both pragmatism and imagination. We are already refining our governance and strategic development planning, and I want to be active in these crucial areas. I want to work towards establishing a secure financial situation for the organization, because we can only grow if our infrastructure is solidly based. It is also important to extend IADMS’ outreach to those less familiar with dance medicine and science.

I have been a very active Board member, contributing in a range of working groups and always carrying out my responsibilities. I chaired the hosting consortium for the 2007 Annual Meeting in Australia and am now Chair of the IADMS Education Committee. My experiences as a dancer, teacher and director, together with my history in cultural development and arts funding and my increasing involvement in research, have given me an overview of the challenges the Board will meet as we strive to fulfill IADMS’ potential. I would be extremely honored if I were given the position of Vice President, as it is a means to represent the organization’s membership and to help further IADMS’ aims.

Peter Lavine
Peter E. Lavine, MD, is an orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in the areas of sports and performing arts medicine, as well as general orthopaedic surgery, trauma, and adult reconstructive surgery. Dr. Lavine has been active in IADMS for years, serving as a Member-at-Large 2007-2009 and serving on the Editorial Board of Journal of Dance Medicine & Science. Dr. Lavine has been a contributor to the Performing Arts Medicine Association and continues to be a regular contributor and speaker at IADMS meetings. He has also been invited to speak in New York City at the Harkness Center for Dance. Dr. Lavine served as an advocate for the IADMS Washington, DC meeting.

Dr. Lavine has served as an Orthopaedic Surgery consultant for numerous ballet schools, including the Kirov & Washington Schools of Ballet. He regularly treats performers from Cirque du Soliel as well as members of world renowned professional dance and ballet companies that perform at the Kennedy Center, National and Warner Theaters. He has been selected as a member of the Washington Ballet Alliance of Medical Providers.

Dr. Lavine has numerous leadership positions as both the Past-Chairman and Past-President of the Medical Society of Washington, DC and as a delegate to the American Medical Association. He has served a pivotal role in advocating for physicians and their patients in the press, Congress and City Council.

Dr. Lavine did his undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and his medical training and orthopaedic surgery residency at Georgetown University Medical Center. Upon graduation, Dr. Lavine traveled to Bern, Switzerland and Europe where he had been selected for an AO Synthes International Fellowship under Professor Reinhold Ganz, MD. His practice now includes professional and pre-professional dancers and performers. Currently, he treats patients in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC.

Helen Laws
Helen Laws has worked at Dance UK for its Healthier Dancer Programme since 1998 and has been its manager since 2001. With a remit to promote and advocate dancers’ health and performance, she has organized conferences, events and talks; produced publications and information sheets; and facilitated and carried out research in the areas of dance health and science. She manages networks for dance medicine practitioners, researchers and dance professionals, encouraging communication across disciplines and providing a point of contact in the UK for those seeking advice, information or expertise in dance medicine and science.

In collaboration with her Dance UK colleagues, she strives to ensure that dancers’ health, wellbeing and performance issues are recognized by arts funders and at government level. She studied ballet, tap, modern and contemporary dance from an early age and completed a BA (Hons) Degree in Dance at Roehampton University, London, in 1996. She has a Diploma in Arts Management and is the author of “Fit to Dance 2: The report of the second national inquiry into dancers’ health and injury in the UK.” Helen has served on various committees for IADMS since 2001 and is currently a member of the IADMS Board, Chair of the Development Committee, and co-chair of its International Liaisons Committee.

Helen writes, “Working within a small staff team for an organization that has a national remit and similar aims to IADMS provides me with valuable experience and insight that I would like to contribute to the future development and running of IADMS. My time spent on the Board of IADMS has been invaluable to gain a deeper understanding of the organization, its priorities, and how together the Board and staff can ensure these will be effectively achieved.”

Nominees for Treasurer (3)

There is 1 position available.

(listed in alphabetical order)

Gayanne Grossman
Gayanne Grossman, PT, EdM, is a physical therapist for dancers, the Director of Dance Wellness, and an Associate Instructor of Anatomy and Kinesiology at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA. She holds a BFA in Dance, a BS in Physical Therapy from the University of Utah, and an EdM in Dance Education from Temple University where she conducted PhD studies.

Her professional experience includes providing physical therapy services for Muhlenberg College Department of Theatre and Dance, Temple University Department of Dance, Princeton Ballet School, Pennsylvania Ballet and University of Utah Departments of Ballet and Modern Dance. Her teaching experience includes modern dance technique for the University of Utah Department of Continuing Education, conditioning and injury prevention workshops for several dance programs, and Kinesiology and Anatomy for Muhlenberg College and Temple University.

She has published original research on enhancing dance performance and methods to validate whole leg turnout measurement which included MRI documentation of tibial torsion values. She has published articles on management of dance injuries, screening, advocating for dance science education, and a chapter on physical therapy for dancers in Dance in My Life, a book by the National Dance Association. She lectures and conducts workshops nationally and internationally on these topics.

Gayanne served the American Physical Therapy Association by writing the hip chapter for a course on dance medicine, as a content expert for the Performing Arts Practice Analysis, on the Board and as Chair of the Nominating Committee for the Performing Arts Special Interest Group.

Gayanne has been an IADMS member for over 11 years. She serves on the IADMS Board, the Development and Educational Committees, and as Co-Editor of the IADMS Bulletin for Teachers. As a dancer, educator and physical therapist, she supports the multidisciplinary nature of IADMS and its mission.

Marika Molnar
Marika Molnar, PT, LAc, is a pioneer in dance medicine and was the first physical therapist to work on-site with a professional ballet company in the US. She has been involved in dance medicine for over 30 years both as an educator and health practitioner.

Marika is the founder and president of Westside Dance Physical Therapy, a private practice that specializes in the care of dancers. She is the director of physical therapy services for the New York City Ballet and School of American Ballet.

Marika has been a member of IADMS from its inception and served as its Vice President from 1997-1999 and President from 1999-2001. She has continued to support IADMS by serving on various committees and is currently the Treasurer. She is a member of the IADMS Program Committee and the Development Committee. She is the Associate Editor for Rehabilitation for the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science. Marika lectures extensively nationally and internationally and recently has begun an educational series called Dance Medicine Practicum.

Matthew Wyon
Matthew Wyon, PhD, CSCS, is a Reader in Performance Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton, UK where he works in both the sport and dance departments. At the University he is the Course Leader for the MSc in Dance Science and Director of Studies for four dance science and medicine doctoral candidates who have all presented at IADMS in recent years. He was recently appointed an associate professor for Artez Dance academy in Arnhem. He is the chair of the IADMS Research Committee and serves on the Medical Advisory Committee of Dance UK. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (NSCA) and is the exercise physiologist for the Birmingham Royal Ballet and English National Ballet. He has worked with numerous dancers and companies within the UK as an applied physiologist and fitness trainer.

Matt has been a member of IADMS for the last eleven years and is currently a Board member. He chaired the host committee of the 2010 Annual Meeting in Birmingham. He has published over 40 peer reviewed and 8 professional dance science articles and has presented at the last eight IADMS meetings.

Matt brings passion and drive to the Board with a desire that research should be applied and beneficial for dancers and that it is disseminated back to the profession in an understandable format.

Nominees for Members-At-Large (18)

There are 10 positions available. You may vote for up to 10 candidates for Member-At-Large.

Note: The four candidates marked with an asterisk (*) below have also been nominated to run for an officer position. If any of these candidates is elected to an officer position, any votes cast in the Member-at-Large election for that person will be ignored.

(listed in alphabetical order)

Annabelle Couillandre
Annabelle Couillandre, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense in France where she mainly teaches biological and health sciences to students involved in physical activity and sport sciences. She has been a member of IADMS since 2003 and is currently serving on the Research Committee. She regularly collaborates with Peter Lewton-Brain in Monaco on dance biological and pedagogical issues. Their work has provided an example for collaborative research, pointing out the benefits of interdisciplinary research.

At her university, Annabelle is conducting research on motor control, getting strong inspiration from the dance field. The Centre National de la Danse in Paris has invited her to give scientific lectures on different themes. She has recently explored the interaction between dance and health in a new perspective, looking at dance for health, and presented her work at the last Monaco Dance Forum and French physiotherapy society conference. Her work was very much appreciated and has been presented on TV and radio and published in professional journals for MDs and PTs. Currently, she is setting up a collaboration with a rehabilitation centre which is taking care of injured professional ballet dancers.

Annabelle writes, “I have the feeling that my expertise and interest for human movement as a researcher but also as a dance lover could be useful to the field of dance science, developed by IADMS these past years. I would also like to help IADMS establish itself in French speaking countries, and maybe host the Annual Meeting one day in Paris.”

Jan Dunn
It has been a privilege to have been associated with IADMS since the beginning – since before the beginning. The idea that eventually became IADMS originated in the early 1980s, with a handful of people from both the medical and dance education fields, who were concerned with the health and well being of dancers. I was fortunate enough to be at the “right place at the right time” with these founding dance medicine professionals – individuals such as Allan Ryan, MD, Marika Molnar, PT, Janice Plastino, PhD, Ruth Solomon, Professor Emeritus and Martha Myers, MS, among others. As a dance educator, I was caught from the beginning by the vision of what dance medicine could mean for the average dancer and teacher, and I continue to be inspired by that same vision.

IADMS grew from an original effort in the late 1980s to establish a dance medicine component of the National Dance Association (USA), through the efforts of Dr. Allan Ryan and myself, with the invaluable help of Dr. Janice Plastino and Ruth Solomon, then on the National Dance Association Board. That effort, though successful, did not reach out internationally; thus IADMS was conceived as a worldwide dance medicine organization. Dr. Ryan, the founding force behind IADMS, asked me to serve on the Board, to specifically represent dance educators. I was honored to do so, and have endeavored for many years to continue to fulfill that mission. All of our amazing work in dance medicine can only benefit the dancer when it reaches out to integrate into the thousands of schools worldwide who provide the early education for these students. My goal in seeking to be voted onto the IADMS Board is to continue to represent and foster this crucial component of our organization.

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Katherine Ewalt
My passion for performing arts medicine began in 1991 after sustaining a life altering injury. Following surgery and a year of focused rehabilitation, I re-entered the world as a better, smarter mover, with the ambition to help others prevent and overcome similar experiences.

I obtained my Bachelor of Arts in Athletic Training. My professional work in the arts began as the Certified Athletic Trainer for Indiana University Ballet Theatre. I completed a Master's of Science in Kinesiology/Athletic Training and was a Graduate Scholarship recipient for my work with dancers. I earned my Pilates, massage therapy and holistic health practitioner credentials fusing complementary and alternative medicine practices with traditional western approaches. In my private practice I work with individuals, schools and professional dance companies collaborating with clinicians in the US and internationally. I have worked in university, recreational, professional and Olympic sports as well as for the US Marine Corps and apply concepts from sports to dance.

Additional positions: Active member National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA), International Association for Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS), Performing Arts Medicine Association; Professional presenter; Author columns/scholarly articles; Founding member: NATA Performing Arts Work Group; Subject Matter Expert NATA Professional Education Council; Coordinator IADMS “Physical Therapists and Athletic Trainers’ Workshop/Special Interest Groups Day;” Guest editor for the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science; Peer reviewer for the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science; member of the IADMS Development Committee; Dance USA Taskforce on Dancer Health; Development/instruction “Body Modalities and Injury Prevention” San Diego City College.

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Nancy Kadel
I am honored to have served on the IADMS Board of Directors. As an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in foot and ankle reconstruction, my academic interest, and passion, is the care of dancers. I studied dance as well as science at Sarah Lawrence College, USA, was a scholarship student at Jacob’s Pillow, and performed with several small dance companies. I graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, fulfilled my residency training in Boston at the Harvard Orthopaedic program, and completed a Foot and Ankle fellowship at the New England Baptist Hospital. I have taught ballet and modern dance classes, and choreographed several works.

While in San Francisco this past three years, I served as Medical Director of the Healthy Dancers’ Clinic, a free injury prevention and screening clinic for dancers sponsored by University of California-San Francisco and housed in the ODC Dance Commons. I have lectured internationally on dance injury prevention and published original research on stress fractures and dance biomechanics.

As an IADMS member since 2003, I have attended all of the Annual Meetings, and serve as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science. I worked to get Continuing Medical Education/CEU accreditation for the Birmingham and Washington, DC meetings. I am currently Chair of the Dance USA Taskforce, and I sit on the Board of Directors for the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) and served as co-chairman for their 2008 annual meeting.

If elected to the Board, I would strive to maintain the high quality of the IADMS meetings, help promote access to our members’ work, through our website or journal. I would work to continue the multi-disciplinary aspect; it is the contributions from Dance Educators, Physical Therapists, Movement Practitioners, Physicians and Surgeons, and Dance Researchers that makes IADMS unique and powerful.

Janet Karin
I am pleased to accept nomination for re-election to the Board of IADMS because my experience over the past term has shown me that there are many ways I can contribute towards the organisation. IADMS is at an exciting stage of development. With established credibility in the scientific, educational and artistic fields, it is poised an ready to influence the entire training and care of dancers and students and of teachers themselves. IADMS is contributing towards a major cultural shift in dance.

I have been a very active Board member, contributing in many areas such as strategic planning and Annual Meeting planning procedures and always carrying out my responsibilities in a timely manner. The overview I gain through board membership also helps me, as Chair of the Education Committee, to maximize the usefulness of this important aspect of IADMS’ work.

I have attended every Annual Meeting since 2002, and presented many papers. I believe that these experiences, together with my history as a dancer, ballet teacher and somatic educator, and my increasing involvement in research, have enabled me to represent many of our members and to help further IADMS’ aims.

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Moira McCormack
Moira has been attending IADMS Annual Meetings for the last 12 years and has presented numerous times. She is Head of Physiotherapy at the Royal Ballet in London. However, her interests lie not only with care for professional dancers but also technique, prevention of injury and teaching young dancers.

Moira is dedicated to the mission of IADMS and is committed to this vibrant, multidisciplinary and international organization.

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Sanna Nordin-Bates
I am a research fellow based at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, UK, working on a project entitled "The development of dance talent in young people: An interdisciplinary longitudinal research project.” I lead the psychology side of the project, researching variables such as perfectionism, disordered eating, motivational climates, and creativity. In my freelance time, I work as a dance psychology consultant for the Royal Ballet Upper School and for English National Ballet in London.

Prior to working at Trinity Laban, I completed a BSc in Psychology and Sports Sciences and a PhD in Dance Psychology, both at the University of Birmingham. My PhD was in the area of dance imagery. Since then, I have also achieved chartered status with the British Psychological Society. I have taught dance psychology on the MSc programmes both at Wolverhampton University and at Trinity Laban as well as guest lectured for various dance and sport organizations.

I have attended every Annual Meeting of IADMS since 2005 and consider it my main outlet for new research data. I also support students to attend and present. Doing so is important to me because I am passionate about dance psychology as a subject in need of growth and promotion. If I were elected to the IADMS Board, I would work to promote dance psychology both in terms of research excellence and applied practice. My background in general sports science and my current work on an interdisciplinary project means that I see the value of all IADMS’ sub-disciplines.

Although I am currently living and working in England, I plan to move to Sweden during the 2011-2013 term. Dance science is as yet a small area in Sweden, and I am very committed to the promotion of our subject and of IADMS once there.

Judith R. Peterson
Judith R. Peterson, MD, has been actively working to promote dancer health for many years. She has presented numerous times to IADMS on topics ranging from foot issues to bone health. She is the Guest Editor of a special issue of the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science concerning the hip to be published in 2011. She and Gayanne Grossman have filed a successful application to Muhlenberg College to assess the long term health consequences of dance in a study with Institutional Review Board approval. Her book, Dance Medicine-Head to Toe, will be published this year by Princeton Book Publishers. She continues to actively treat dancers for a wide variety of health concerns in her clinical practice. She would be honored to serve on the Board of IADMS to continue to work to promote health in dance.

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Karen Potter
Karen Potter, MFA, has been a member of IADMS since 2000 and has attended every Annual Meeting since 2002. She presented or served as a moderator at every meeting from 2002-09. In addition to showing her support as a co-producer of the Annual Meeting in Cleveland in 2008, she served on the IADMS Education Committee in London (2003) and San Francisco (2004) and then as the chair of the Education Committee and central organizer of “A Day for Teachers” for the meetings in Stockholm, West Palm Beach, and Canberra (2005-07). She co-authored the Education Committee’s Resource Paper on Screening and more recently, a paper for the IADMS Bulletin for Teachers.

Ms. Potter co-founded the Dance Wellness Programs at Long Island University and Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in the US. The CWRU program has been used as a model for the development of similar programs at many universities. She has been an active member of the dance medicine and science community by helping screen dancers and/or train dance wellness teams to conduct screens at several universities across the US. As an active participant with the Dancer Wellness Project, she has consulted on performing arts wellness initiatives internationally.

Currently, Ms. Potter is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at CWRU. Prior to her appointment, she enjoyed an extensive professional career performing and teaching internationally. In addition to being privileged to dance works by Martha Graham, Erick Hawkins, Lucinda Childs, Albert Reid, James Clouser, and Pascal Rioult, she has had the honor of dancing with the companies of Erick Hawkins, Nancy Meehan, Space Dance Theater, and Martita Goshen to name a few. She has taught in Brazil, France, Switzerland, and Turkey where she was the first American female to teach and perform on a USIA grant in Ankara.

Rachel Rist
I have a Masters degree in Performing Arts and many years teaching experience as a classical ballet teacher. As a dance educator and director of an elite performing arts school, I have always focused on improving knowledge from dance medicine and science in the dance studio. I believe that the resources that IADMS provides, can keep dancers dancing longer and stronger. I was deeply honored to have been the first ballet teacher who became President of IADMS (2003-05). On retirement from my role as President, I founded the “Safe and Effective Dance Practice” qualification to provide an IADMS generated benchmark of quality for dance teachers, and a long lasting income for IADMS. This worldwide qualification, already being taught internationally, will teach generations of dance teachers of all genres, ensuring that they have the appropriate knowledge to teach dance safely and therefore improve the standard of training of dancers everywhere.

In my subsequent role as Chair of the Education committee, (2007-10) I formed the sub-committees that produced the IADMS Teachers Bulletin, the Posters based on the Resource Papers, and the commissioning of many more Resource papers. I have attended IADMS meetings for the last 16 years, and have had the distinct pleasure of knowing where IADMS has come from and where it is going to. I believe that this important organization, founded on the shoulders of giants in their field, and with the wisdom of some world class leaders and lecturers, is continuing to develop as it should. I would like to be a continuing part of that development.

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Jeffrey A. Russell
In 2002, with 20 years of experience in sports medicine, orthopaedics, and international healthcare, I decided to change my professional field to dance medicine because I could not reconcile that dancers at the university where I taught at the time received virtually no healthcare compared to the university’s athletes. In partnership with a deeply interested dance faculty, I used my skills as a Certified Athletic Trainer to build a performing arts medicine program that mirrored the university’s sports medicine program. In 2005 my family and I moved to the UK so that I could pursue a PhD in dance medicine and science. Having completed that, I now serve as Assistant Professor of Dance Science at the University of California, Irvine. At UC Irvine I also offer a Dance Injury Clinic and lead the Musculoskeletal Dance Science Research Group comprising 20 undergraduate, graduate, and medical students.

I have presented at least one oral paper or poster at every IADMS Annual Meeting since 2004 and have mentored student research for presentations at the 2009 and 2010 meetings. I was appointed to the Research Committee in 2006, the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science reviewer panel in 2007, and the journal’s Editorial Board in 2008. I have coordinated the Annual Meeting’s poster competition since 2006 and reviewed Annual Meeting abstracts since 2009.

A strength of IADMS is its multi-disciplinary nature that embraces a wide range of students and professionals in a non-threatening way, regardless of one’s field or level of knowledge. It is my intention to continue to develop this richness, to participate wholeheartedly in implementing the operational enhancements required of a rapidly growing international organization, and to identify new alliances that will enrich IADMS’ global stature and improve dancers’ access to high quality health information and healthcare.

Selina Shah
I am honored to be nominated for the Member-at-Large position. With its diverse membership, IADMS provides the perfect forum for promoting dancer health.

I am a sports medicine and internal medicine physician specializing in caring for all athletes, including dancers and performing artists. As a former professional dancer, and as the Director of Dance Medicine at the Center for Sports Medicine, my passion is to advance the healthcare for dancers. In the San Francisco Bay Area, I have had the opportunity to do so through a variety of free programs including a regular lecture series, research, health screenings, and 24-hour access to care for several small professional companies including performance coverage, and medical care for uninsured dancers.

I have been an active member of IADMS since 2002 attending all of the meetings and lecturing regularly, most recently giving a lecture on Vitamin D in 2010 in Birmingham, UK. I have also been an active member of the IADMS Research Committee since 2007. Furthermore, I have lectured internationally and nationally, conducted original published research, written review articles, and contributed book chapters on a variety of dance medicine topics. My publications have appeared in Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, Current Sports Medicine and Reports, the Physician and Sportsmedicine, and Netter’s Sports Medicine.

If elected, I will work hard to uphold the IADMS mission and further the collaboration between the science and dance communities. I will continue to promote the advancement of the health and well-being of dancers on a global level.

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Ruth Solomon
Ruth Solomon’s career as dancer and choreographer spanned many years and many countries. As administrator she was assistant director of the dance program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and established the dance program at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her teaching technique has been documented in an hour-long video, “Anatomy As a Master Image in Training Dancers.” She has taught throughout this country, Europe and Asia. She is co-editor of the groundbreaking book East Meets West in Dance: Voices in the Cross-Cultural Dialogue. Ms. Solomon has been a member of IADMS since its inception, and has continually served on its Board of Directors and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science. Her articles, “Arthroscopic Debidement of Labral Tears in Dancers” and “A Proposal for Standardized Psychological Screening of Dancers” appeared in JDM&S. Her research has been published in many of the major medical journals. Her Preventing Dance Injuries, one of the classic texts in the field of dance medicine and science, was published in a revised edition in 2005. The Proceedings/Abstract Books of the IADMS Annual Meetings, which she co-edited, are currently on sale through the IADMS website, as is her Fifth Edition of the Dance Medicine and Science Bibliography (2011). Ms. Solomon’s lifelong work in dance, as performer, choreographer, teacher, program director, and researcher, has been honored with a number of awards, including the National Dance Association’s prestigious Heritage Award, for “meritorious service of international significance to the dance field.” She has done annual three-month “residencies” at the Division of Sports Medicine, Boston, for the last 30 years, and is a Certified Medical Assistant. In 2010 she was named Honorary Fellow in the Division of Sports Medicine, Harvard Medical Center. She is currently the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science.

Winnie Darani Tsao
I have consented to my nomination as a Member-at-Large of the IADMS Board for the following reasons:

I am a keen supporter of dance, and am personally keen to see the area of dance medicine and science grow and develop in Asia;

IADMS has an established track record in the area of dance wellness, ranging from physical wellness to the emotional and psychological issues facing dancers. I feel that we have a lot to learn from the research and methodology already developed, and we can work with IADMS to adapt this for our local context; I would like to act as the bridge between IADMS (and its members) and the various dance schools and organizations in Singapore and Asia, and to work to increase Asian membership within IADMS;

There is currently no Asian representation in the IADMS Board. Issues facing Asian and Western dancers are different due to different body structure, diet, lifestyle and dance forms. Asian representation on the IADMS Board would bring some of these issues to the forefront, for discussion, review and research;

I am keen to increase the cross-exchange of ideas and information between East and West, and to facilitate the increased involvement of IADMS in Asia, which I am both willing and able to do;

My commitment to the IADMS mission can be seen in my repeated bids to host the IADMS Annual Meeting in Singapore, first in 2007 in Canberra and, more recently in 2010 in Birmingham.

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Margaret Wilson
I am seeking election to the IADMS Board of Directors as a Member-at-Large. I have been a member of IADMS in good standing since 2000, and have actively participated yearly at Annual Meetings presenting papers, mentoring student research, and helping to organize special interest group days. I am an assistant professor at the University of Wyoming where I combine my interests in the art and science of dance in my teaching, choreography and research. I have conducted biomechanic research looking at specific dance movements and the joint forces acting on the body, and have been instrumental in developing a screening program for dancers at the University of Wyoming as well as a BFA in Dance Science.

As a member of the IADMS Board of Directors, I would represent dance science and dance education and the interface between the two. I would actively solicit student involvement from my own institution and surrounding states to help develop the future of the organization. I would actively promote the mission and objectives of IADMS in all venues, local, regional, and international. I would like to serve to enlarge the educational component of IADMS and integrate smaller organizations (such as the Dance Kinesiology Teachers group) into the larger IADMS field. My strengths lie in collaborative work – bringing teams of individuals together to combine their expertise to a larger project. I would bring these skills to the Board of Directors but also would like to facilitate this manner of working within the membership at large.

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