About

Miriam is a Psychiatrist-Physician, Musician, Sound Therapist, Global Health and Mental Health Tech Advocate, and on a mission to contribute to health care and human potential. 

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Credentials:

- Global Health and Psychiatry (Specializations, Swiss FMH Candidate);
- Fully certified Clinical Physician, 2012 (Dr. med. univ., Medical University of Vienna); 
- Global Health, 2024 (Master of Science, University of Geneva); 
- Global Health Delivery, 2018 (PG-Certification, Harvard School of Public Health); 
- Science Communication, 2023 (PG-Certification, University of Geneva); 
- Mind Body Medicine, 2020 (PG-Certification, Harvard Medical School)
- Music Composition Trainee, 2016 (Certification, University of the Arts Zurich);
- International Violinist with > 30 years of music performance, production and industry experience.
- Violin prodigy 1989-2002, fellow/scholarship, the Bavarian State Ministry (Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, David Oistrakh Academy Ingolstadt, University for Music and Theatre Munich).

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* Field research in >30 countries with strong focus on South East Asia and the Far East, leading to
* Developing personalized Neuroacoustic method & Sound protocols;
* Meditator + Yoga practitioner since 2016;  trained in several meditation methods;
* Neurosomatic Programming certified, 2016;
* Sound Therapist 3x certified, 2019; 
* Ayurveda Coach certified, 2021;
* Acupuncture Training 2010-2011;
* Integrative Practice /Studio, Zurich.

Miriam has worked on a variety of projects: As an SDG 3 advocate and Medical expert at the World Health Innovation Summit on health innovation and sustainability mandates in support of the Pope Francis COVID-19 commission in 2020, on the 25+5 SDG Cities Leadership Platform at World Economic Forum Davos in 2020 and 2022, the World Urban Forum 11 in 2022,  as well as Arts-for-SDGs projects with the World Health Organization, and the Global Social Prescribing Alliance. As a Neuromusician she focuses on the development of sonic technology. Her latest publication covered an analysis and suggestions for COVID-19-related strategic priorities of the Swiss healthcare system.

As a physician and researcher, Miriam gained clinical experience in the fields of pain therapy & neuroimmunology at the University Hospital Vienna AKH, and in mental and global health at the University of Zurich,  University of Geneva,  Harvard University, Cambridge USA and private clinics.

In her early career as a concert violinist on the stage and music composer, the creative arts were playground for collaboration and self-expression. Between 2005 and today, Miriam has co-created/co-composed various international projects ranging from classical orchestra performances to rock-pop band recordings to different roles in the film industry in Berlin, Zurich, London, New York,  and Los Angeles. 

In 2015, she began with meditation & sonic healing practices on an ongoing quest to understand human nature. Music is a way to experience our sense of self. Over the past decade, Miriam gradually gained extensive meta-knowledge and in-person and/or remote training as a sound & meditation practitioner,  with internationally recognized meditation teachers and programs such as with Sadhguru, Sharon Salzberg, Joan Halifax, Jon Kabat Zinn, Don Conreaux, Joe Dispenza, Olga Klimecki and many others around the globe.

Miriam spent extensive phases in diverse ethnocultural contexts, especially SE Asia & the Far East, on her journey beyond what meets the eye and into Asian ancestry. This deep reconnection widened into a diversity of knowledge. Miriam strives for a culture of conscious growth to promote sustainable transformation in an increasingly complex world.
 

OUR WORK FOLLOWS A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO HEALING, CONVERGING MUSIC, MEDICINE, NEUROSCIENCES, AND TECH

• We strive to stay at the forefront of scientific rigor, while additionally sourcing from original ethnocultural evidence. We are continually optimising and refining our method whenever possible. We are collaborating with high standard research institutes in Switzerland, currently in stealth mode

MUSIC & SOUND THERAPY

• 2019 - today
  Zurich-based Studio - Dr. Miriam Lee
  Music Production, Mentoring and Sound Meditation Immersion: in person, hybrid, remote, digital, Music Composition (in-house composition, production, live performance). Past Clients: ALL HERE Geneva, ALPS Foundation, Dr. Janna Scharfenberg Academy, Dr. Claudia Nichterl Academy, SDG Lab WEF Davos, and private individuals.
  
  SOUND THERAPY | ACOUSTICS | MIND-BODY MEDICINE

1.  Digital Sound Baths | Deep Listening Soundscapes | Sound Meditation | Composition, Production, Live Performances - In-person, hybrid, or remote (contexts corporate, well-being, wellness, medical practices)
2.  Mentor and Teacher in Sound-Meditation 
   
   

• 2005 - today
  Independent Music Professional: full professional violinist & composer (strings)
  aka Miriam Lee Eicher. Worked internationally in EU/USA, i.e. Vienna, London, NYC, L.A., and Zurich for film, commercial, orchestras, concert galas, studio recordings, live events, and substituting violinist in world-class orchestras i.e. 21st Century Orchestra at KKL Lucerne, Berlin Youth Symphonics, Udo Juergens Orchestra, a.o. ; Performing in the genres: Classical, singer-songwriting, gypsy, pop-rock - performance, and writing pop-rock string arrangements. (More details) 
  
  

CONSULTANCY

• Dec 2024 - ongoing
  Sound Medicine & Burnout Prevention for Healthcare Staff, in-house project at Clinique La Source Lausanne
  Ongoing consultancy and Project development: mental health/burnout prevention personalized for clinical staff and employees; together with the Directory of Innovation LaSource.
  
  
• 2023 - Mar 2024
  Blame Documentary, Science Communication, Swissfilms, Christian Frei Filmproduktion
  at Dr. Christian Frei (Director, Filmproducer), one of the most acclaimed Swiss documentary filmmakers, is known for his films Genesis 2.0 (2018), Space Tourists (2009), The Giant Buddhas (2005) and War Photographer (2001). He is a Sundance Awardee and 74th Academy Awards Nominee .  Blame film world premiere on 04/04/2025 

• Oct 2019 - June 2024
  Expert/Advisor, Mental & Global Health, Music Interventions, World Health Innovation Summit UK
  Due diligence and advisory on healthcare-related integrative health and musical projects. WHIS is a platform that brings public and private partnerships together to fund and deliver healthcare solutions globally, providing research and analysis, peer and expert-led knowledge-building, strategic networking, and deal flow in healthcare and life sciences.

• Nov 2022 - Dec 2023
  Medical Advisor, Sonic & Frequency-based Technologies for Brain Health / Mental Health, Convergence Partners AG, Venture Capital
  Convergence Partners is a European venture capital firm that invests in founders building high-impact companies in healthcare sectors with large unmet needs. 

• 2016 -2017 
  Medical Film Consultant, 8 Cancer Campaign Films with the Swiss Cancer League
  Music & Film Content Strategy,  together with Mediafisch, Fidelio Films & The Swiss Cancer League, Zurich, Switzerland; developing 8 short films for the Special Program at the Zurich Film Festival 2017-2019

• 2015 - 2016 
  Medical Co-Author, We Me Academy Program (High-Performance Coaching Program)
  Co-Author & Content Developer, responsible for medical/neuroscientific/music content; with Ex-President of the Swiss Athletics Federation Patrick K. Magyar,  Zug, Switzerland
  
  

CLINIC 

• 2016 - 2018   
  RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE,  Infectious Diseases/Travel Medicine
  under Prof. Christoph Hatz, and Prof. Jan Fehr. Department of Public Health and Global Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland -  contributing to Swiss TPH/UHZ/BAG travel medicine.

• 2013 - 2015   
  RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
  Focus Depression and Stress-related mood disorders, brain health and music, CBT-psychotherapy. Clinic Schlössli, Clienia Private Clinics for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Teaching Hospital, Canton Zurich

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• 2010 - 2012   
  CLINICAL INTERN, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
  Pain Therapy, Anesthesiology & Neuroimmunology
  with Prof. Dr. Dr. H-G. Kress, AKH Wien, University Hospital of Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Conducted a clinical study on the role of sphingosine-1-phosphate and interleukin-6 in chronic pain. First S1P study on pain perception in humans.
  Publication: Clinical study on the role of sphingosine-1-phosphate and interleukin-6 in chronic pain
  
  
• 2005 - 2011   
  ROTATING CLINICAL INTERN
  continuous clinical intern 2009-2011, in Surgery, Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Oncology, Dermatology, Gynecology, Urology, Emergency Medicine, Dentistry, Pathology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Vienna, Austria + Nürnberg, Germany.

• 2003   
  NURSING INTERN, Geriatric Medicine
  Charles Foix Teaching Hospital, Sorbonne University, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France, (January 2003)
  
  

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MEDICINE | HEALTH

• 2024
  Original Research Thesis
  A Scoping Review of Music Interventions to Prevent Burnout and Enhance Well-Being among the Healthcare Workforces. Policy Recommendations for Switzerland. 
  University of Geneva

• 2023
  Complete Health Needs More Than Medicine
  Social Prescribing for Health and Wellbeing: The Austrian public health magazine Periskop interviews Dr. Burger on Social Prescribing as a systemic solution for tomorrow's healthcare system - and the possibilities of Social Prescribing and sustainability for society. 

• 2022
  Protecting The World From Future Pandemics
  More efficient and reactive health systems: how digitalizatiom will change healthcare. // Four visions for more equity, capacity and paradigm shift among global health systems by 2040. With this timely policy brief we introduced four visions for more equity, capacity and paradigm shift among global health systems by 2040 during the World Health Assembly 2023 in Geneva. It proposes four visions and policy plans to protect the world from future pandemics such as COVID-19, and calls for the improvement of health systems’ capacity, more efficient monitoring of infectious agents, more equitable manufacturing and distribution of pandemic-related countermeasures and asks the international community to address the root causes of pandemics.

• 2022
  Music and medicine: innovations by the next generation
  Vienna. PERIGROUP The Austrian public health magazine Periskop reports on innovative, systemic solutions in medicine, and how Dr. Burger coined the term Sound Medicine. Insights on sustainability in healthcare systems, the power of music, and sound therapy for health, wellbeing, and resilience. 

• 2022
  Music for Health and Wellbeing : Sound Meditation and Music Therapy
  Sound Therapist Dr. Miriam Burger talks about ways of  alleviating stress and anxiety through the power of music therapy and sound meditation. As well as walking us through her own journey into the field, she describes what exactly happens in sound healing sessions, along with its numerous benefits, as supported by scientific research.
  
  
• 2022
  Original Research Article
  Future Strategic Priorities of the Swiss Decentralized Healthcare System: A COVID-19 Case Study
  Institute of Global Health, Campus Biotech, Geneva & Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva;
  
  
• 2010 - 2012   
  Original Research Thesis
  Sphingosine-1-phosphate and interleukin-6-plasma levels in patients with chronic pain in comparison to controls
  Department for Pain Therapy, Anesthesiology & Neuroimmunology, Medical University of Vienna / University Hospital of Vienna - AKH Wien, and University of Innsbruck, Austria.
  
  

CERTIFICATIONS

• 2023
  SCIENCE COMMUNICATION Certification
  University of Geneva Summer School, complementing my skillset in global health, and interest in collective dynamics & planetary evolution, to competently communicate scientific content in projects, public and policy matters.

• 2021-2024
  Master of Science in GLOBAL HEALTH (M.Sc.),
  Campus Biotech & Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva,  Switzerland. In-depth MSc on healthcare research, - systems, - innovation, - policy, - governance, - law, - diplomacy, - finances, and globalization.

• 2020
  MIND-BODY MEDICINE  Certification
  MD Postgraduate Training, Benson-Henry Institute,  Harvard University, Cambridge USA; Focus Meditation, Mindfulness, the Neuroscience of contemplative practices. The Fundamentals of Mind Body Medicine | Using Mind Body Techniques | Cognitive Reappraisal

• 2018   
  GLOBAL HEALTH DELIVERY Certification
  Harvard University, Cambridge. Postgraduate Certification, magna cum laude (GPA 3.72). 
  Global Health Program on Management, Epidemiology, and casework in Global Health. In-depth training led by global health specialists and business leaders from Harvard Business School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School for Public Health, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Last Mile Health, Abundance Foundation, Global Seed, etc. Unique composition of hands-on and theoretical framework training. In-person, selection/admission-based program. Spearheaded and taught by Prof. Paul Farmer, and Prof. Rebecca Weintraub, Prof. Joia Murkherjee. 

• 2005 - 2012 
  MEDICAL STUDIES Diploma (M.D., Dr. med. univ.)
  Medical University of Vienna, Austria. MD THESIS (1,0* Austrian grading) "Sphingosine-1-phosphate and interleukin-6-plasma levels in patients with chronic pain in comparison to controls", Department for Pain Therapy, Anesthesiology & Neuroimmunology, Medical University of Vienna / University Hospital of Vienna, Austria. under led by Prof. Dr.-Dr. HG Kress
  
  
• 2003 - 2005 
  DENTISTRY, propedeutics
  Medical University of Vienna, Austria
  
  ASIAN CULTURE & LANGUAGES
  Extracurricular studies (Sinology, Koreanology, Japanology, Hindi, Philosophy, Film) University of Vienna, Austria

• 2002 - 2003
  BIOCHEMISTRY, Guest Student, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany

MUSIC | PERFORMANCE + STUDIO + STAGE

• 2015 - 2016 
  MUSIC COMPOSITION STUDIES (Film Theatre Media track), Postgraduate Training
  ZHDK  Zurich University of the Arts,  ZHDK, Switzerland

• 1995 - 2002  
  CONCERT VIOLINIST,  Junior student
  age 11y-17y, with Prof. Konstantin Vardeli, David-Oistrach Akademie Ingolstadt, Germany.
  Fellowship by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research, and Arts
  
  
• 1994 - 1996   
  CONCERT VIOLINIST, Junior student
  age 9-12y, with Prof. Oliver Colbentson, Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg (formerly Meistersinger Conservatory Nuremberg), Germany
  
  
• 1994/1996/1998
  JUGEND MUSIZIERT Competition, Deutscher Musikrat
  Solo Violinist, 5x participation at regional & federal level, with 2x "outstanding success" on regional levels, and 2x "very good success" on federal level

• 1990 - 1994
  VIOLIN, Junior student
  age 5-9y, Suzuki Method at the Public Music School, Fürth, Bavaria, Germany