International Association for Music & Medicine

Welcome to IAMM With You - Fall Edition!
2021-09-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
For our first session in this series, we will look back at the wonderful events we hosted in the previous season of IAMM With You: In Conversation. Additionally, we will give you a preview of what is coming up for the Fall Edition of IAMM With You.

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Leading scholars, researchers, educators, therapists, musicians, practitioners, and other visionaries offer their expertise in various specialties through an online interview or concert/presentation and open discussion. In the first 30 minutes, they present their current work, its development, and perspectives on the future of music and medicine/health, then respond to questions and comments for another 30 minutes.
These experts will also provide reading lists, playlists, websites, or audio/video files for future reference and investigation. Explore the full schedule here.
This event is free and open to the public. Simply register below!

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IAMM Book Club - Experiencing Race as a Music Therapist
2021-08-23 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for this talk with Susan Hadley, PhD, MT-BC on August 23rd at 12noon Eastern Daylight Time.
Experiencing Race as a Music Therapist: Personal Narratives is a compilation of critically engaging narratives that grew out of conversations with 17 music therapists living in different parts of the world, from various racial groups, about their experiences of their racialized identities in the therapy setting. The music therapists describe the raced and cultural contexts in which they were born and describe the racial demographics of the places they have lived at various times in their lives. The countries in which the individual music therapists spent their formative years include Australia, Canada, Iran, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States, with many of them also having traveled to other countries.
The music therapists discussed their specific experiences of their racialized identities when they were studying music therapy and how they experienced their racialized identities in their professional lives. Many of them also described the differences they were aware of in terms of how they experienced themselves as raced or how they experienced the therapeutic relationship when they were working with people of their own race compared with working with people who were from a different race. From these narratives, we can see that our life experiences shape how we understand ourselves and others, our assumptions and biases, and the effort with which we form relationships with different groups of people. The music therapists in this book have shared their experiences in the hope that we can learn how to sit in our discomfort, without judgment, lowering our defenses, in order to learn more about ourselves and others, so that we can deepen our understandings and our relationships across racialized lines.
Susan Hadley, PhD, MT-BC, is professor of music therapy at Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania. She is the co-author, editor, or co-editor of several books including Sociocultural Identities in Music Therapy (2021), Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about their Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes ​(2016), Experiencing Race as a Music Therapist (2013), Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip Hop (2012), Feminist Perspectives in Music Therapy (2006), Narrative Identities: Psychologists Engaged in Self-Construction (2005) and Psychodynamic Music Therapy: Case Studies (Barcelona, 2003). She is currently co-editing a book on Colonialism and Music Therapy. She has published numerous scholarly articles, chapters and reviews,serves on the editorial boards of several journals, and is co-editor-in-chief of Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy and Qualitative Inquiries in Music Therapy.

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IAMM Book Club - Scales to Scalpels
2021-08-09 12:00 - 13:00
Join us for this talk with Dr. Lisa Wong on August 9th at 12noon Eastern Daylight Time.
In Scales to Scalpels, Dr. Lisa Wong chronicles how the music acumen of physicians affects the way they administer healing and, in turn, how their medical work affects their music. The book attempts to answer the question, “How does practicing the art of music transform the art of practicing medicine”?
Dr. Wong tells the story of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble of talented Boston-area physicians, med students and health-care professionals. The orchestra’s musicians inspire the reader to learn more about doctors who practice the healing arts of music and medicine and the fascinating interplay between medicine and music. Scales to Scalpels is available on amazon.com.
Dr. Lisa Wong is a pediatrician, musician, and author dedicated to the healing arts of music and medicine. She is a violinist, violist and pianist who has worked at Milton Pediatric Associates since 1986 and is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School, where she is the Associate Co-Director of the Arts and Humanities Initiative.
Dr. Wong will be joined by Dr. Psyche Loui, music neuroscientist and Director of the MIND (Music Imaging and Neural Dynamics) lab at Northeastern University for a lively discussion on the challenges and changes in the field during the current pandemic. Dr. Loui is also Chair of the IAMM Task Force on Music & Neuroscience.
This event is a member benefit and no additional registration is required. All active members will receive the Zoom link via email.

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IAMM Book Club - Music As Care
2021-07-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
We invite you to our second IAMM Book Club meeting on July 19th at 12 noon (EDT) for an engaging discussion with authors Sarah Hoover and Moisès Fernández Via discussing Hoover’s newly-released “Music as Care: Artistry in the Hospital Environment,” a book providing an overview of professional musicians working within the healthcare system. This volume considers the interactions within the clinical environment between artist and patient, exploring how musical careers and artistic practices can develop safely and effectively through work in a hospital setting.
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IAMM Book Club - Sing You Home
2021-07-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join our first IAMM Book Club meeting on July 13th at 12pm EDT for a conversation with Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven novels. 5 of Jodi’s books have been made into movies including “My Sister’s Keeper” starring Cameron Dias. She was also featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show for her book “Sing You Home.” She has won many awards and recognitions including the Sarah Josepha Hale award.
This event will be free and open to the public, please register here.

IAMM With You: In Conversation with Isabel Tan, Kenneth Lam, and Calvin Eng
2021-06-29 09:00 - 10:30 | Online
How might we envision the day when music is at the forefront of holistic health care? In this conversation, we will introduce The Association for Music Therapy Singapore, and St Luke’s Hospital, and our common vision to not only make music therapy services accessible, but to further explore how music and the arts may play a vital role in improving Healthcare, Quality of Life, Well-Being, and Society.

Isabel Tan, RMT, graduated from the University of Queensland with a Masters of Music Therapy in 2014 and has worked as a private practitioner, clinical educator towards interns and guest lecturer in HELP University in Malaysia. She is currently pioneering the Music Therapy department in St Luke’s Hospital in Singapore and continues to expand the music therapy services in the hospital through inpatient and outpatient work, education and training.
Kenneth is currently the Deputy Director of Operations and Rehabilitation at St Luke’s Hospital. Beginning as a physiotherapist in the late 1990s, Kenneth has worked collaboratively with numerous medical and allied health professionals, and has developed a keen insight into collaborative work in rehabilitation.
Calvin Eng, MT-BC, is a board certified music therapist, with a Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy, from Berklee College of Music. Upon returning to Singapore in 2017, he has been working in the special education setting, serving individuals with neuro-developmental disorders, and multiple disabilities. Calvin is President of the Association for Music Therapy Singapore (AMTS), leading the association in its efforts to raise awareness of music therapy in Singapore.

Host: Samuel Gracida, MA, MT, IAMM’s Chair of Communications and Outreach Committee

Please note that IAMM members do not need to register and will automatically receive a Zoom link for this event. For questions email sgracida@iammonline.com.
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In Conversation With: Xijing Chen, Mingming Liu, and Qian Liu
2021-06-25 20:00 | Online
In this event, IAMM will be in conversation with Xijing Chen, Mingming Liu, and Qian Liu. As music therapists, educators, and researchers, Prof. Liu and Dr. Chen will engage with Dr. Qian Liu, a medical doctor, about the development and practice of music and medicine in China.

Suggested reading prior to the event is Music Therapy in China, an article written by Jing-Wen Zhang, Tian Gao, and Ming-Ming Liu and published on Vol. 8, No. 1 of IAMM’s Flagship Journal Music and Medicine.
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