Anna Schwartz (she/her) just completed her first year of medical school at NOSM University in Thunder Bay. Originally from Fort Frances, Ontario, she has been grateful to have the opportunity to pursue several research projects in the past year combining her two passions: medicine and the arts. Anna completed her undergraduate degree in piano performance and music education in April 2023, and after graduating, she oversaw over thirty thousand dollars of successful grant applications for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra during her two-year tenure as a grant writer.  Anna presented her project on the history of music therapy in Canada at the University of Calgary’s “History of Medicine Days” in March 2026, and also in March, she was privileged to be invited to speak to students at Trinity Western University about her multi-disciplinary project, Spectrum. This unique research-adjacent marriage of art and science focuses on the neuroscience of synesthesia and intersects with the arts through a visual arts presentation alongside the music of a live orchestra.

Anna is thrilled to working with the Dr. Gilles Arcand centre this summer on a project that hopes to bring the lived experience of menopause into brighter light through creative mediums, such as music, visual art, dance, and spoken word.