Docs always like to conduct others.
Some of them become even conductors:
either of a doctor orchestra with (semi-)professional MusicDocs like Dieter Pöller
or even of a professional musicians´ orchestra like Boyd Neel

[Born 1905, died Toronto 30 Sep 1981]

see one of his CDs

1) Giuseppe Sinopoli is ConductorDoc and ComposerDoc

Biography Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatoire and at Darmstadt, including being mentored in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen. He also obtained a degree in medicine from the University of Padua, and completed a dissertation on criminal anthropology.

ConductorDoc

Sinopoli was appointed principal conductor of the Philharmonia in 1984, and served in this position until 1994, making a number of recordings with them, including music of Edward Elgar and the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler.[3] He became principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden in 1992. He is best known for his intense and sometimes controversial interpretations of opera, especially works by Italian composers and Richard Strauss. He received criticism for his slow tempi in his conducting of symphonic works. In April 2001, Sinopoli died of a heart attack while conducting Giuseppe Verdi's Aïda at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. His last recordings included Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Friedenstag, as well as Dvorak's Stabat Mater.[4] Sinopoli died in Berlin, Germany at age 54, survived by his wife Silvia and two sons.

See on his DocPresentation page!

2) Samuel Wong M.D. is music director of Honolulu Symphony

and an ear, nose and throat doctor!

His resume at the Orchestra site. The Harvard-magazine published a nice article about him. Click here to read it.

http://www.globalmusichealing.org/index.html   Another nice article about him: page 1, page 2

HIS official homepage: http://www.samwongmd.com

3) Jany Renz from Basel / Switzerland see his own presentation

is a professional conductor. One of his recordings with the Hungarian State Orchestra playing the 9th symphony of Bruckner has been a great hit in the United States of America.
available at http://www.ondine.fi 

4) Jeffrey Tate is a well-known conductor, too. And he did medicine:

".....In 1970 Jeffrey forsook medicine and joined the music staff at Covent Garden as a répétiteur (rehearsal pianist and vocal coach) until 1977. He worked with Maria Callas during these years. Jeffrey Tate’s rise to prominence followed his 1978 conducting debut of “Carmen” at the Gothenburg Opera in Sweden...."  Citation from the Old Farnhamian´s Organisation  

a very good resume is here: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:56158~T1

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Tate

5) Otmar Desch is PianoDoc, TheatreDoc, ConductorDoc and ComposerDoc

Applause after Desch's  "Aufruf des Dalai Lama" Melodram

There is little to say about my professional career. Music, piano and composition studies were runing parallel with the medical studies.....
[remark from Wolfgang Ellenberger: Right, Otmar, nothing easier than that!]
After my medical exam I was working at the theatre in Münster/Germany for 15 years (my parents were frightened), then I went to Berlin to have an own office as a general practitioner
(and NOT give up to compose and give recitals in the Berlin area). As I had planned I sold the office at age 60 and from end of 2001 I am musical director, pianist and composer at the theatre in Stendal/Germany. www.tda-stendal.de

(......)

...this much for today!
Desch

Read about his resume in his presentation!

6) Simon Schindler is ConductorDoc

born in 1976 in Fulda he got music lessons at age 5. With 8 he began studying Cello at the local music school, then he did a lot with chamber music and worked himself into orchestra literature. His autodidactical conducting abilities were completed by studies with KMD Gunther-Martin Göttsche and Prof. Peter Winkler. After his "Abitur" (about high school degree) he wrote music critics and conducted a lot of sacred music recitals with amateur ensembles. Then he founded the Fulda Symphony Orchestra together with Karsten Aßmann, Dorothea Heller and Albert Flügel in 1999. For his cultural work he got the "Paul-Harris-Fellow" award by the local Rotary club. From 1997 to 2003 he studied medicine in Würzburg/Germany, since 2004 he is scientific assistant at the neuro-surgical university hospital Würzburg.

http://www.symphonisches-orchester.de

7) Ching-Hong Kao is ConductorDoc

See the report about the phantastic PCOT Physician Chamber Orchestra of Taiwan!
On their site they have a huge collection of online Videos to watch!

8) Gert Feser is ConductorDoc

 Gert Feser is conducting the "ensemble con brio", one of the leading amateur orchestras in Würzburg/Germany. He is medical doctor and professor for music therapy and understands making music as a fountain for joy and prevention of diseases and protection of human spirit and creativity. Thus his rehearsals are often making the participants enthusiastic.....

Feser has studied with Prof. Reinartz at the Würzburg music academy and passed his exam as conductor. He took classes with Sergiu Celibidache in Bologna and with Michael Gielen in Frankfurt. In 1970 he received a prize of the "Deutscher Musikrat". Now he holds master classes in Germany, France and Italy.

http://www.ensembleconbrio.de/orchest.html

http://www.sinfonia-da-capo.de

9) Lothar Löser is ConductorDoc and OrganDoc

	Lothar Löser is specialised in anesthesy, runnin ghis office in Hamburg, he is OrganDoc and he had worked with a former doctors orchestra in Erlangen several years ago....
	..in attachment two pictures from my "wild times" - Brandenburg Concerto no.5 with myself at the cembalo! And: my own Erlangen barock orchestra in the "Wassersaal" (water hall) of the Orangerie in Erlangen castle.
German: Im Anhang zwei Bilder aus meiner wilden Studentenzeit - Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 5 mit meiner Wenigkeit am Cembalo! Und: Mein eigenes "Erlanger Barockorchster" im Wassersaal der Orangerie in Erlangen.

10) Harri Hyppölä is ConductorDoc

and founder of the Finnish Tahdistinorkesteri in Kuopio/Finland.

http://www.tahdistinorkesteri.fi

conductor Harri Hyppölä
+358 (40) 512 47 72, email: harri.hyppolafimnet.fi

Intendentti Maija Tusa
+358 (50) 413 26 51, email: maija.tusauku.fi

11) Frido Mann is ConductorDoc, TheologyDoc, PsychologyDoc, WriterDoc and "RollerCoasterDoc"

His father was  a well-known musician (viola), his mother from a factory owner´s family and his grandfather german Nobel Prize winner for literature. Frido Mann, favourite grandson of Thomas Mann gives a rare impression of one of Germany´s best-known families.

Born in 1940 as child of emigrants in California he finds warmth in Thomas Mann´s family - but suffers from the fact that his "fictional alter ego" dies in Mann´s roman "Dr. Faustus" - he feels "killed" and overcomes this feeling only in later years.

He owns a czech, then US-american and at last a swiss passport, he gets a conductors diploma, becomes a thologist and psychologist - and reaches the pre-clinical exam in medicine. Therefore the title of his book is "Roller Coaster" - it is written in present time and thus involves the reader in this interesting life.

See original at http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/archiv/artikel.asp?src=heft&id=61005

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