Chris Eberle was still in the thick of her breast cancer treatments \u2014 chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy \u2014 and it had been a long day. \u201cThere are so many people, all rushing around,\u201d she says. \u201cYou\u2019re getting shot up with all these drugs, and it\u2019s constant commotion and constant stress. It blows your nervous system out of whack.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then she stepped into Roswell Park\u2019s brand-new art gallery. As she remembers that moment, her shoulders relax and she lets out a long sigh of relief. \u201cIt was peace. It was quiet. It was instant stress relief, sitting on a bench and staring at a work of art.\u201d A longtime volunteer with the\u00a0Roswell Park Alliance Foundation Art Committee<\/a>, Eberle had been invited to tour the gallery with other committee members, to learn about the artwork and the gallery\u2019s goal: to give patients a focus beyond their cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyone who knows Khurshid Guru will not be surprised to learn that he was the guy behind the art gallery project. He\u2019s constantly on the lookout for ways to do things better. He co-invented a simulator<\/a> that enables surgeons to refine their skills in robotic surgery before operating on a patient. Inspired by street performers using marionettes, he developed the \u201cmarionette stitch\u201d to give surgeons better access to the organs they need to reach. Five years ago, he introduced a summer program<\/a> that helps prepare high school students to enter the healthcare professions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because of his work in robotic surgery, Guru understands the strong connection between the eyes and brain. He wondered if the same connection could impact the healing process. \u201cI thought,\u00a0We have such beautiful art,<\/em>\u201d he recalls.\u00a0\u201cMaybe we should build a gallery.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Many patients find it difficult to take their mind off their pain, emotional stress, and physical disabilities after cancer treatment. This hospital found a way to integrate a peaceful space for their patients to release some of that burden. How can artists, designers, and others find ways to take focus off such stress-inducing experiences through their work and experiential designs?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" View the original article here, a related article here, and another related article here Suliann Ben Hamed Chris Eberle was still in the thick of her breast cancer treatments \u2014 chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy \u2014 and it had been a long day. \u201cThere are so many people, all rushing around,\u201d she says. \u201cYou\u2019re getting shot up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,30],"tags":[98,154,155,117,153,104,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-1045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts","8":"category-arts-featured","9":"tag-art","10":"tag-cancer","11":"tag-gallery","12":"tag-patient","13":"tag-relief","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-stress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/art_gallery_july_27_2018_4-1024x683.jpg\")
Connecting the Eyes and the Brain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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