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 Greater Chicago Area Chapter, American Medical Writers Association and the Illinois Woman's Press Association.

Her latest book, released in May, 2006, is The Encyclopedia of Stress and Stress-Related Diseases.

Ada plays flute in the Community Symphony Orchestra at the Music Institute of Chicago and is Third Vice President of the Evanston Music Club.

She is a member of the Board of Directors, International Fellowship of Rotarian Musicians and a member of the Rotary Club of Evanston, where she served on the Board 2002-2004, Midwest Writers Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, The Authors Guild, and is a Fellow of the American Medical Writers Association.

For more information about Ada and her books and activities, please visit www.adapkahn.com.