CONDUCTORCISE Comes To Newark

UMDNJ and New Community Corporation Introduce Newark Seniors to David Dworkin’s CONDUCTORCISE®

NEWARK – Up to 100 seniors will learn how to lead a symphony orchestra, exercising their upper bodies while conducting 17th century compositions, on May 22 when the UMDNJ-Institute for Complementary & Alternative Medicine and New Community Corporation (NCC) host Maestro David Dworkin, creator of CONDUCTORCISE®.

Dworkin will lead the seniors, who live in New Community housing, through his acclaimed “symphonic aerobics” workout from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at NCC’s Extended Care Facility, 266 South Orange Avenue, in Newark.

Combining the musical, educational, and aerobic, CONDUCTORCISE® gets participants enthused about classical music and keeps them engaged, thinking, and in motion. “Those are key components necessary for healthy aging and staying fit,” said Dr. Adam Perlman, MPH, executive director of the UMDNJ-Institute for Complementary & Alternative Medicine (ICAM).

“We are very excited to join UMDNJ in hosting this unique event, especially during national fitness month,” said Monsignor William J. Linder, founder of NCC.

CONDUCTORCISE® is being offered as part of the grant-funded Enhancing Memory & Wellness Program, which Dr. Perlman and NCC care coordinators jointly developed to serve more than 1,600 senior residents in NCC’s eight facilities.

“There is research which shows that exercise, along with other healthy lifestyle factors, can help to maintain the brain and memory,” said Lynn Miller, JD. CHC, CYT, director of education of UMDNJ-ICAM and coordinator of the NCC wellness program.

Dworkin created CONDUCTORCISE® after making the transition from accomplished clarinetist and orchestra conductor to fitness guru. He has successfully brought his program to people of all ages, from pre-school children and teenagers to healthy seniors and those in assisted-living facilities, as well as stroke and Alzheimer’s patients.

This will be the first time Dworkin presents CONDUCTORCISE® in Newark.

Reporters interested in covering this presentation or interviewing Dr. Adam Perlman or Lynn Miller should contact UMDNJ’s Zenaida Mendez at (973) 972-5000 or Kara Lane at New Community 973-485-2246.

Visit http://www.conductorcise.com/ for more information on Dworkin and his program.

New Community Corporation is the largest community development corporation in the United States and Newark’s largest nonprofit in housing, which shelters 7,000 low-income residents.

UMDNJ is the nation’s largest free-standing public health sciences university with more than 5,700 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and a school of public health on five campuses. Annually, there are more than two million patient visits at UMDNJ facilities and faculty practices at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, a statewide mental health and addiction services network.