The Medical Musician Initiative, an incorporated 501(c)(3) nonprofit, conducts educational workshops and helps disseminate the work of medical musicians. The Medical Musician Initiative, co-founded in 2016 by Dr. Marvin A. McMillen and guitarist Andrew Schulman, is to create and conduct educational workshops in medical music, present discussions related to the work of medical musicians, and connect hospital patients and their families to the work of medical musicians. A Medical Musician is: "A professional concert level musician with pertinent training in critical care medicine, who is a member of the medical team in a critical care unit". The primary function of a medical musician in a critical care unit is to balance the brain.