Anahita Navab dedicates skill and time to children by combining music, medicine and teaching Her petite figure and delicate features would hardly convince strangers that such a frame could hold an 85-pound instrument powerful enough to help treat the sick and uninspired. And yet third-year psychology student Anahita Navab, whose stage name is Ana Caravelle, holds her harp at the bedsides of children several times a week in an effort to provide what she deems to be an effective healing tool: music therapy. Navab, daughter of celebrated cardiologist, Mohammad Navab, and the sister to a current UCLA medical student has no intention of following her family into the field of medicine, but admits that she is enamored of the possibilities that music can be a supplement to the medical field. “(Music therapy) really works. It takes...
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