The Oates Journal (ISSN: 1098-1446) is a publication of the Wayne E. Oates Institute addressing issues related to spirituality, ethics, and healing from the perspective of pastoral care and counseling.

Dr. Alice Cash has worked with music as a pathway to healing for almost twenty years. Her journey as a healer began in 1990 when she joined the staff of the Arts in Medicine Program at the University of Louisville School of Medicine and started combining insights from her Masters in Social Work with her Ph.D. in Musicology to educate people in the art and science of music's unique healing properties. While with the Arts and Medicine Program, Dr. Cash conducted clinical research on the "Psychophysiological Benefits of Tone and Chant” and “The Therapeutic Use of Music with Alzheimer’s Disease."

In the late 1990s, Dr. Cash launched Healing Music Enterprises as a vehicle to offer her expertise to health care professionals, educators, students, organizations and people at large. She is a popular speaker, workshop presenter, and author on the use of music and psychotherapy to help people recover from chemical addictions, depression, anxiety and other disorders. As an accomplished musician, she is wonderfully skilled in both the demonstration and application of the most current musicology and music therapy concepts and principles.

Her primary healing focus over the past five years has been the use of music before, during, and after surgery. In 2008, she received a U.S. Patent for the Surgical Serenity Headphones she developed, which provide patients with healing music during surgery to reduce the amount of anesthesia and other drugs necessary so that the patients can have a safer surgery and a faster recovery and return to life.