Welcome

My name is Miriam Burger. My roots are Asian & European, and I grew up in Germany and Austria. I have always lived with & in different cultures, places, and careers.  In my professions in Music and Medicine, I observed how pervasive imbalances are in our society. This led me to search for new horizons and new solutions. I delved into philosophy, health phenomena, and field research and traveled parts of the world to collect authentic experience firsthand, and implement new and ancient methods and wisdom into my work. These processes resulted in the founding and building of SOUND AND HEALTH. Sound And Health strives to live, share and develop these insights.

Sound And Health offers a platform and point of reference for sound, music, culture, and medicine. We support health literacy and definitions of health towards prevention and beneficial lifestyle choices - striving for a culture of reconnection, transformation, and conscious growth to foster wellbeing and sustainable societal development in an increasingly complex world.

As a professional Violinist & Musician, and Sound Artist, I have worked in the Creative Arts on diverse international projects for the last 17 years, ranging from orchestras, rock-pop bands up to the Zurich, NYC, and L.A. film industry; 

As a Medical Doctor, I have clinically worked in Vienna and Zurich, in Pain Therapy, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Public Health, with foci in Mental Health, Mind-Body Medicine, and Global Health, and Sound Medicine.

Clinical Vitae

• 2019 - Today    MEDICAL DOCTOR,  SDG3 Expert Team Member of World Health Innovation Summit, UK
  
  
• 2016 - 2018   MEDICAL DOCTOR + RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Department of Public Health and Global Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

• 2016 - 2017  MEDICAL CONSULTANT, Cancer Campaign Film Project, Mediafisch + Swiss Cancer League, Zurich, Switzerland

• 2015 - 2016  MEDICAL DOCTOR, Co-Author &Co-developer of the We Me Academy Program, Interface Marketing, Zug, Switzerland
  
  
• 2013 - 2015   MEDICAL DOCTOR, Clienia Schlössli, Clienia Private Clinics for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Teaching Hospital, Canton Zurich, Switzerland; Psychiatric management, internistic coordination. Fields of interest: Depression & Burnout, Prevention, Neurosciences, Neurology, concepts of health+disease, Music therapy & brain.
  
  
• 2010 - 2012   RESEARCH ASSISTANT, Clinical Department of Anaesthesiology & Pain Therapy, with Prof. Dr. Dr. H-G. Kress, AKH Wien, University Hospital of Vienna, Austria.
  Clinical study on the role of sphingosine-1-phosphate and interleukin-6 in chronic pain; first S1P study in humans.
  
  
• 2005 - 2011   CLINICAL INTERN, rotations in Neurology, Surgery, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Oncology, Dermatology, Gynecology, Urology, Emergency Medicine, Dentistry, Pathology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Vienna, Austria + Nürnberg, Germany.
  
  
• 2003   NURSING INTERN at Hôpital Charles Foix, Teaching Hospital, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris (Paris VI), France.
  
  

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Academic Vitae  

MEDICINE 

• 2021-2023   MASTER OF SCIENCE IN GLOBAL HEALTH, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
• 2020    MIND BODY MEDICINE Certificate, Benson-Henry Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA

• 2018    GLOBAL HEALTH DELIVERY Postgraduate Certification, cum laude (GPA 3.72*), Summer School, T.H. Chan School for Public Health, Harvard University, USA
  
  
• 2005 - 2012  MEDICAL DOCTOR APPROBATION, Graduation thesis, summa cum laude (1,0*)
  Medical University of Vienna, Austria;  Fields of interest: Music and Medicine, Synesthesia, Cell-derived biological sounds, Neuroscience, Neuro-Biochemistry.
  
  
• 2011   ACUPUNCTURE Studies, Austrian Society for Acupuncture, AKH University Hospital Vienna
  
  
• 2003 - 2005  DENTAL MEDICINE, Propedeutics, University of Vienna, Austria
  
  

MUSIC 

• 2015 - 2016  MUSIC COMPOSITION, ZHDK, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
  
  
• 1996 - 2002   CONCERT VIOLINIST,  Junior Student with Prof. Konstantin Vardeli, Fellowship by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Arts, + magna cum laude (24/25*) Jugend Musiziert, David-Oistrach Akademie Ingolstadt, Germany
  
  
• 1994 - 1996   CONCERT VIOLINIST, Junior Student with Prof. Oliver Colbentson, Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg (Ex-Meistersinger Conservatory), Nuremberg, Germany

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Additional qualifications & training 

COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE + PREVENTION

• Neurosomatic Reprogramming (Switzerland)
• Kundalini Gong Mastery  (Asia)
• Biofield Tuning (USA)
• Soundscaping (Austria, USA)
• Music Theory (Switzerland)
• Sound Meditation (Spain, USA, Asia)
• Ayurveda Lifestyle Coaching (Switzerland)
• Mind-Body Medicine (Harvard University)
• Global Health Delivery (Harvard University)
• Global Health (University of Geneva) i.t.
• Stress Management (MD Training, Mental Health, FMH Psychiatry Switzerland)
• Burnout Management (University of Zurich, FMH Psychiatry Switzerland) 

COLLABORATIONS

Sound And Health integrates transformative and creative methods for health and education, supporting the sustainability goals SDG#3 #4 and #5 with various consulting mandates and collaborations with WHIS (for the U.N., Vatican, WHO) while fostering cross-sectoral work. 

We are embedded in/or an active partner of

• primary care, complementary medicine and specialists in Switzerland & UK
• Global Social Prescribing Alliance 
• Concerts For Humanity (U.N.)
• Vatican Covid-19 Commission Support Team
• Academic institutions (Harvard Univ., Univ. Zurich, ZHDK, Univ. Geneva)
• The World Health Innovation Summit (UK, international collaboration)
• the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals Network to design Smart Cities Programmes 2020-2030, implementing new concepts for health and wellbeing globally.

FOCUS

We support you with psycho-acoustically and vibro-acoustically effective frequencies to foster your innate self-healing properties.

Professional focus

• Western Medicine (Mental Health, Global Health)
• Sound Healing + Sound Therapy
• Music + Sound Performance

Sound And Health practices: 

• Consciousness Practice 
• Sound Art Immersion
• Sound Meditation
• Sound Baths
• Soundscapes
• Teaching
• Stress Management
• Transformative Coaching