VIRTUAL Harkness Center Saturday Series: Decoding the U.S. Health System

Please note this event is VIRTUAL ONLY. Find details below.

Harkness Center for Dance Injuries is proud to offer the Harkness Center Saturday Series of workshops led by our clinical staff, featuring various topics on dancer wellness and injury prevention. Most Saturday workshops take place in person at our physical therapy clinic. However in summer 2024, Saturday Series workshops will be offered virtually!

All members of the dance community are welcome (dancers under age 16 are strongly encouraged to attend with a parent/guardian*).

Our June 2024 workshop will be Decoding the U.S. Health System.

This workshop will be a practical guidebook for anyone who must access healthcare in the United States, in particular dancers, and will consider how you can best advocate for yourself. Specifically we will define terms, types of physicians, and healthcare provider categories; compare insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid; and discuss important questions that patients can ask their healthcare providers.

About the instructor:

Harkness Center for Dance Injuries physical therapist Patti Cavaleri, PT, DPT received her bachelor of science from the University of Wisconsin—Parkside and her doctor of physical therapy from Columbia University. She successfully completed the Performing Arts Physical Therapy Fellowship at the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries. She has a background in competition dance and is an instructor in full apparatus for classical Pilates. She has experience in treating people of all ages and has provided backstage physical therapy care for multiple Broadway shows.

*We strongly encourage participants under 16 years of age to attend with a parent/guardian. If a parent/guardian plans to drop off a minor, please make sure you have corresponded with the Harkness Center in advance.

Refund policy: We cannot provide refunds after the event has taken place.

Questions: Contact Kristen Stevens, program coordinator, Kristen.Stevens@nyulangone.org

About the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries: NYU Langone's Harkness Center for Dance Injuries (www.DanceInjury.org) is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of dance professionals by providing breakthrough approaches to injury prevention, medical treatment, education and training, and research. Founded in 1989 through a partnership between the Harkness Foundation for Dance and the Hospital for Joint Diseases (now NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital), the Harkness Center provides world-class clinical care for dancers of all types and levels. The scientific foundation for this expert care comes from research into understanding the dancer’s body in motion coupled with workplace requirements. The Harkness Center’s evidence-based practice has produced globally accepted approaches to the recognition, treatment, and prevention of dance injuries.

In addition to caring for injuries, an integral part of the Harkness Center’s mission is providing education. For the dance community, Harkness offers injury prevention workshops, online courses, and screenings, including its long-running, free Injury Prevention Assessment (IPA) program. For fellow dance medicine professionals, Harkness is actively engaged in sharing clinical best practices through academic training with live and online continuing education courses. Since 2015, Harkness Center has offered DanceMedU, its digital learning platform (www.DanceMedU.org), which now offers over 20 lectures on dance medicine and dancer health.