Our Mission

Our mission is simple – to humanize healthcare. Right now, where medicine and pharma stop, care stops. But it shouldn’t. It is at this point that patients need holistic support the most. We are here to change this.

Our Story

“It took me 2 minutes watching a terminal cancer patient dancing his last dance with his wife in the hospital to realize that healthcare has lost its soul. I instantly knew how powerful and necessary integrating the arts into healthcare is. This is something that no journal article or textbook had taught me or prepared me for in ~30 years of practicing medicine.

I experienced healthcare from the perspective of a doctor, patient and administrator across 3 different continents. One of the fundamental pain points that I discovered is the lack of professional resources and adequate time to address human emotions. That gap is growing, burning money, and contemporary healthcare systems have no solution for it. This is why I devoted my career to the intersection of arts and health from 2008, following my clinical and executive corporate career at the Cleveland Clinic. While at Cleveland Clinic, I lead the team who built what became one of the largest Arts & Health programs in the U.S. Now, I am using this experience to help build the Artocene.”

- Iva Fattorini MD, MSc, Founder.

“Arts in healthcare are not a luxury or commodity. They are the humble necessity.”

Iva Fattorini

WHY THERAPEUTIC ARTS?

WHY ARTS IN HEALTH?

  • Important quality differentiator

  • Unique connector for diverse and multicultural healthcare environments

  • A new culture of contemporary healthcare

WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES?

  • Implemented by non-experienced staff

  • Limited hospital resources

  • Lack of clear and tailored strategy

SOLUTION ARTOCENE

  • Team – dedicated to arts in health movement

  • Leadership – executive global expertise in leading healthcare organizations

  • Network – global arts and health worlds

CLINICAL BENEFITS

  • Lowers levels of anxiety and depression

  • Decreases stress levels

  • Improves mood

  •  Decreases perception of pain

  • Accelerates recovery in certain diseases

ECONOMIC BENEFITS

  • Staff retention

  • Shortens length of stay

  • Decreases use of pain medication

  • Higher employee and patient satisfaction scores

  • Improves overall hospital experience

OF SURVEYED PATIENTS INDICATED THEIR MOOD WAS IMPROVED BY VISUAL ART IN A CLEVELAND CLINIC STUDY

OF HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS INVEST IN THE ARTS AS A BENEFIT TO PATIENTS WELLBEING

OF HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS INVEST IN THE ARTS TO BENEFIT PATIENTS MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL RECOVERY

OF HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS INVEST TO HELP PATIENTS FAMILIES

OF SURVEYED PATIENTS INDICATED AN IMPROVED OVERALL HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE BECAUSE OF THE HOSPITAL’S ART COLLECTION IN A CLEVELAND CLINIC SURVEY

Our Team

Iva Fattorini

Founder

Anita Boles

Senior Associate

Aksana Kavaliova

Music Therapist

Bahareh Amidi

Poetry Therapist

Catherine Harmer

Cognitive Neuroscientist

Donna Betts

Art Therapist

Girija Kaimal

Research Adviser

Jill Sonke

Senior Associate

Judy Rollins

Senior Associate

Lisa M. Wong

Senior Associate

Michèle Wood

Art Therapist

Alise Leiboff

Communications Officer

In The Press

Enterprising Oxford, University of Oxford

What is your background? What made you decide to get involved in supporting entrepreneurs?

ARTS, CREATIVITY AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS

Reimagining Identity, Otherness and The Possible

ARTS AND MEDICINE. THE PATH

Oxford, May 14 , 2019 Iva Fattorini, MD MSc, Founder Artocene™

THE BENEFITS OF ARTS IN HEALTHCARE

Changes are taking place in clinical practice and healthcare. There is a growing realisation the technological developments we’ve seen in the last fifty years need to be complimented and supplemented by other interventions.

THE ART OF HEALING WITH ART AND MEDICINE – DR. IVA FATTORINI

As a doctor focused on international health, Dr. Iva Fattorini has had the opportunity to observe many patients from around the world and the ways in which they deal with their treatment. She noticed that for many patients once the medical tests are done, so much of their time is spent waiting.

DR. IVA FATTORIN & DEEPAK CHOPRA – ONE WORLD

As a doctor focused on international health, Dr. Iva Fattorini has had the opportunity to observe many patients from around the world and the ways in which they deal with their treatment.

ARTS AND MEDICINE. DO IT

As a doctor who devoted professional life to integration of arts with medicine, I am often being asked, “Why do we need arts in medicine?” and, “Why would we spend money on arts instead of more important things?”

RENEE FLEMING TALKS BIPOLAR WITH OUR PAL

American soprano Renée Fleming and I gave this presentation tonight in Orlando at the Lake Nona Impact Forum about mental wellness, and I played from music by Schubert.

    Get in touch

    Email: info@artocene.com