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Health Through Art: Patients At UK HealthCare Benefit From Gift
Allergist, immunologist, and art lover Beth Miller has dedicated her professional life to healing. A faculty member in the College of Medicine since 1996, the Ohio native came to Lexington to train in her medical specialty and decided to stay in the area.
Dr. Miller recently became involved with Women & Philanthropy where she discovered a way to give to the university in a way that reflected both her love for art and her belief that “aesthetics and environment impact not only mood, but health.” She decided to contribute to the new Arts in HealthCare program, designed to bring the visual and performing arts into the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital.
“It’s an opportunity to make a difference in other people’s lives,” says Dr. Miller. The program will include visual arts in permanent and rotating exhibits, performing arts that engage, inspire, and comfort patients, their families, and caregivers, and interactive opportunities for art that promote creative expression.
Dr. Miller looks forward to helping nurture the program. “Sometimes women are hesitant as caretakers to give,” says Dr. Miller, “But there is a great feeling of empowerment through giving.”