Discipline:
Researcher
Healthcare Provider
Organization/Affiliation (no abbreviation):
University of California San Francisco
Location:
San Francisco, CA 94110
United StatesEmail:
Short biography and a description of your interest(s) in music and health:
Rebecca Menza is a nurse scientist who explores the use of self-selected music for symptom management in critical care and after trauma. During her doctoral work ('UCSF 22), Rebecca conducted a mixed methods pilot study examining the effects of a self-selected recorded music listening intervention in the ICU. She plans to translate these findings into post-doctoral work focused on clinical outcomes such as delirium, coma, post-traumatic stress, mood, and cognitive function.
After obtaining a Bachelor’s in Science from the University of Vermont in 1994, Rebecca began her nursing career as an inpatient oncology nurse and later transitioned to surgical critical care. Rebecca maintains a practice as an acute care nurse practitioner (UCSF 2006) on the trauma and critical care service at San Francisco General Hospital.
After obtaining a Bachelor’s in Science from the University of Vermont in 1994, Rebecca began her nursing career as an inpatient oncology nurse and later transitioned to surgical critical care. Rebecca maintains a practice as an acute care nurse practitioner (UCSF 2006) on the trauma and critical care service at San Francisco General Hospital.
Collaboration Interests:
Rebecca is keen to collaborate with clinicians, scientists and musicians exploring the use of music for health-related outcomes in critical/acute care, after trauma, traumatic brain injury, or coma. She is interested in increasing access to complementary integrative health interventions in acute care, in order to improve both short term experiences and long term sequalae of acute care hospitalization and trauma. In her pursuit to identify reliable measurements of music interventions, Rebecca seeks partnership with researchers knowledgeable in variability analysis, symptom science, cognitive neuroscience, sociology, and health equity.
Keywords:
music, critical care, trauma, traumatic brain injury, coma, symptoms, post intensive care syndrome, delirium, pain, anxiety, sleep, cognition, equity, variability measurements, social determinants of health