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Christine Kurczaba-Aquino, PA-C MMSc

Physician Assistant / Museum Studies Student / Artist
Museum Studies Student Oakton / Volunteer Our Heart Speaks
Downers Grove, IL, United States

Christine Kurczaba-Aquino obtained her Physician Assistant and Masters of Medical Science training at Midwestern University in Downers Grove. She completed Internal Medicine Residency Program for Physician Assistants at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Her Masters of research Thesis completed at Chicago Institute for Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch was entitled "Modified Nucleosides as Detection Markers for Brain Tumors." She has worked in clinically in Otolaryngology and Cardiology and with clinical research for pacemakers, defibrillators and cochlear implants at University of Chicago Medicine. A life long interest in art disciplines connected her to volunteering as Community Outreach at Our Heart Speaks -a non profit dedicated to sharing a video platform of narratives about patient stories of post traumatic growth as a result of disability or acquired medical disability. The experience of learning how arts exposure, immersion, and process of creating can promote healing motivated her to complete an Artist Teacher Fellowship at Intuit The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago. She is currently transitioning to Medical Arts Advocacy - making hospital connections to showcase the ART of Patients (some artists and some self taught artists) in HC clinics (set up of mini hospital Museums). Additionlly she is a promoter of art making for patients and providers. She is pursing a Museum Studies program. One of her intentions is to introduce slow art interpretation movement into the medical community so complex patients and providers can benefit; by feeling heard within "community." Specifically she is interested in the neurocognitive and neuroplastic changes that occur after looking at ART, in person- at Art Institute, Museum or live art etched in Nature; in all patients. She is researching Pareidolia and interested in exposing patients to ART in a Museum versus Pareidolia like images in Nature and evaluating live brain (via EEG or FMRI) and/or subjective changes.

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