Keeping the Beat
Healthy Aging Through Amateur Chamber Music Playing

Ada P. Kahn, Ph.D.

Award-winning writer Ada P. Kahn, Ph.D., is the author of more than a dozen books including The Encyclopedia of Work-Related Injuries, Illnesses and Health Issues and Stress A-Z. She is co-author of Facing Fears, The Encyclopedia of Mental Health, The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, and Phobias (Scholastic), Empower Yourself: Every Woman's Guide to Self-Esteem, Midlife Health, and others.

Keeping the Beat has won awards from the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) and the Illinois Woman's Press Association. She is a Fellow of the AMWA.

Ada is President of the Evanston Music Club (2009-2010) and a member of the North Shore Musician's Club and the Highland Park Music Club. She plays flute in the Community Symphony Orchestra at the Music Institute of Chicago. She is a Director of The International Fellowship of Rotarian Musicians. See www.ifrm.org.

Other activities:

• Vice President, Evanston Community Media Center (Evanston, IL)
• Member, Evanston Mental Health Board

Other memberships:

• Illinois Woman's  Press Association
• Midwest Writers Association
• National Federation of Press Women
• American Society of Journalists and Authors
• The Authors Guild

For more information, please visit www.adapkahn.com.