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Named for its founder, Dr. Wilma Bulkin Siegel, a retired oncologist and active artist, "Wilma's Studio" is an art program that brings artists to the hospital weekly to work with children in a creative setting. Children in the Pediatric Oncology and the Pediatric Neurology Clinic paint, sculpt, build, and draw with the encouragement and guidance of specially trained artists. These weekly sessions offered in clinic waiting rooms engage patients and their parents and siblings in meaningful self-expression, improving the entire clinic experience.

"Since the arrival to our clinic of the fine artists Barbara Marco and Linda Zarchin Oifer, the atmosphere of our clinic has changed as if from night to day. Both the children and their parents we serve have been more than delighted with their presence."

Dr. Richard Koenigsberger MD
Senior Physician, Pediatric Neurology Clinic

Our medical students participate and benefit from working in the clinics.

"I have loved this experience and have learned so much. It is so easy to see the child as a patient and label them for what is wrong medically, without thinking about their interactions with their 5 brothers everyday and how the mom has to balance the whole family along with having a child that is sick. There is so much more to these kids than a medical chart and it is our job as physicians to see past a diagnosis and see the kids for who they are and really understand how we can make them better. I didn't know much about arts in medicine and I am so glad I was exposed to it because I can see how it is helping these children, as well as their parents and siblings, every week."

Kristal Larsen
Medical Student

DONATIONS FOR WILMA'S STUDIO

"Wilma's Studio" is funded entirely by private donation and we are grateful to all our donors:

• Dr. Wilma Bulkin Siegel and Mr. Jessie Siegel
• Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine
• Cloe Foundation/Jesse Forst
• The Coles Family Foundation
• Roz and Robert Perlmutter/Pearl Paint
• Barry and Sally Mandel
• Ginny Dawes

Help us reach more children. Make a donation to our program by writing a check to:

Columbia University Medical Center and noting on memo line: Arts-in-Medicine Project

and mail to:

Brian Zumbano
Development Officer
Columbia University Medical Center
630 W. 168th Street, P&S 2-421
New York, New York 10032

212-342-0091 (p)
212-342-0098 (f)
e-mail: bjz2105@columbia.edu