International Association for Music & Medicine

Assistive Music Technology: Creating Opportunity for Visually Impaired Musicians
2022-02-18 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | https://iammonline.com/event/chikim/
Please join us for this free event with Prof. Chi Gook Kim! Please register using the form below.

About this event
The objectives of the Assistive Music Technology Lab at Berklee College of Music are to fully integrate blind students into the Berklee experience and empower blind and visually impaired students to create and perform music at the highest levels, translating into a successful career in music. Within this setting, Professor Kim teaches audio recording production, music scoring, and Braille music, addressing skills that are necessary in any music-related career. This presentation will feature the innovative work Berklee is doing to expand the boundaries of music education for visually impaired students, and demonstrate different assistive music technology available today for visually impaired musicians.

About our Guest
Chi Gook Kim, alumnus and Associate professor of Music Therapy at Berklee College of Music, founded the assistive music technology (AMT) program to ensure that students with visual impairments have the same opportunities as their sighted peers on campus and in the music industry when they graduate.
Professor Kim and the AMT program have been featured in major press such as the Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Mix Magazine. His work and life story was shared by Talks at Google and the focus of two documentary films on KBS, a major South Korean television network.
Professor Kim also works to improve accessibility across the Berklee campus in all aspects, consulting and collaborating with many faculty, staff and students around themes of disability, assistive technology, accessibility, and universal design. As an internationally recognized expert in assistive music technology, Professor Kim also consults with other universities and organizations to spread awareness and improve accessibility for all.
His latest project was to improve the accessibility of Sibelius, a major notation software, for visually impaired users. He also developed VOCR, which lets screen reader users navigate inaccessible apps on Mac through machine learning for optical character recognition. Additionally he created Flo Tools, featured at the 2017 and 2018 NAMM Show, is open-source project that dramatically enhances workflow for screen reader users to use Pro Tools, the industry standard for audio production software.
Professor Kim also works as the Chief Technology Officer and Producer at Serotonics Music, and scores for media, including tv documentaries and films featured at international film festivals.
Professor Kim received a BM in song-writing and Contemporary Writing&Production from Berklee, and a MM in music technology from New York University. Professor Kim is in his 12th year as a faculty member at Berklee.

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Global Café - Israel
2022-01-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
IAMM Global Café (IGC) is a virtual networking event for IAMM members across the world. These Cafés are hosted by members of IAMM’s Committee on Global Reporting.
The next IGC focuses on the intersection of music and medicine/health in Israel. Dana Yacobson will host a panel of practitioners actively engaged in music and medicine/health in pediatric settings in Israel. Participants will have the opportunity to converse with the co-hosts, as well as each other.
All IAMM members will receive a recording of this event. This event is scheduled to last for one hour.
All IAMM members are welcome to attend these Global Cafés. Please join with a cup of coffee, tea, or your choice of libation, and enjoy the conversation!
IAMM Global Café – Israel Spotlight is hosted by Dana Yacobson, Member, of IAMM’s Global Reporting Committee

IAMM With you: In Conversation with Rieko Eguchi
2021-12-15 20:00 - 21:00
In this event, NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) music therapy for palliative and terminal care will be discussed based on experiences, reflections, and considerations from early clinical practice at Saitama Children’s Medical Center, Japan. The NICU/GCU (growing care unit) music therapy program started at the hospital in 2018. The program provides support for premature babies and their families, and the music therapist has involved in palliative and terminal care in several families since the program started. There are few articles and resources on music therapy for palliative and terminal care in NICU settings, despite its important work for babies, their families as well as medical professionals. It is essential to work in a collaboration with medical professionals.
Dr. Masaki Shimizu, the director of the department of neonatology, (and Mami Kotani (RN) from Saitama Children’s Medical Center, will join this discussion.

About Our Guest
Rieko Eguchi, MA, MT-BC, CCLS, (Grandparent of Rhythm, Breath and Lullaby) currently works as a music therapist in the unit of neonatology at Saitama Children’s Medical Center in Japan. She holds a M.A. in Music Therapy at Montclair State University, the U.S. She was an intern and research scholar and assisted with various research studies at The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine in New York, September 2015 – February 2018. She also had a child life clinical internship at the center. Her clinical experiences are various including NICU, pediatrics, outpatient radiation oncology, and palliative care. She has a several publications related in NICU music therapy in Japanese medical journals. She is a member of Japanese Association for Promotion of Medical Music Therapy.

This event will be hosted by Mark Ettenberger, PhD, MT, member of Music and Medicine’s Editorial Board.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Jane Edwards
2021-12-01 19:00 - 20:00
In this conversation we will talk with Jane Edwards, IAMM’s Founding President, about her time as President of IAMM, as well as her current professional interests. We will also talk about music and medicine in Australia and human experiences of the arts, in particular how people use music to navigate self-regulation functions. We will also talk with Dr. Edwards about her research into family and childhood topics, the rights of the child, and therapeutic practices and techniques with indigenous communities.

About our Guest
Jane Edwards, PhD, is an experienced academic leader in research development and academic mentoring. Her research interests intersect creative arts, methodology, health, child and family, and mental wellbeing. She is sole editor for the Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy published in 2016 and is Editor-in-Chief for The Arts in Psychotherapy published by Elsevier. Jane has given more than 20 keynote lectures in seven countries. She is the President of the Association for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare. Prior to commencing at UNE she has worked as a researcher or senior academic leader in seven universities across four countries; Australia, Germany, Ireland and the UK.

This event will be hosted by Patravoot Vatanasapt, MD, MS, Past President of IAMM.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation with Mary Rorro and Sydelle Ross
2021-11-16 18:00 - 19:00
Dr. Mary Rorro, will discuss her therapeutic music program for veterans, “A Few Good Notes,” She helped create the Guitar Instruction Group in her VA, which provides free guitars and lessons for veterans and she performs with patient musicians on viola.
Dr. Rorro will share a video of the guitar group and present a slide presentation about the benefits of “A Few Good Notes,” by providing veteran and employee feedback, as well as share poetry based on themes of post-traumatic stress disorder and war to help patients in their journey toward healing.
As the Chair of the Music and Medicine and Humanities Committee of the American Medical Women’s Association, Dr. Rorro will discuss several of the music and medicine initiatives, and share two music videos “Physicians Healers and Healthcare Heroes,” to honor healthcare heroes around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, and “Meet The Moment” to deliver a musical public health message about COVID-19 prevention measures, mask wearing and vaccination, featuring diverse international pre-med students and physicians.
Dr. Ross will begin by giving a brief introduction to hospice and palliative medicine, highlighting its role in the care of very sick patients.
Based on anecdotal experiences with music in her practice, Dr. Ross will discuss the psychological, emotional and spiritual impact of bedside signing on patients living with life-limiting illnesses and patients at end of life, as well as the impact of this intervention on their loved ones.
As she relates these experiences, Dr. Ross will share some of the songs that she sang as musical offerings to the Veterans and their loved ones. She will also briefly discuss some of the findings in the medical literature that lend support to the outcome of these experiences.

About our Guests
Dr. Mary Rorro, is a board-certified psychiatrist who graduated cum laude with honors in music from Bryn Mawr College and received their first Performing Arts Prize. She was Chief Resident and Resident of the Year (from Pfizer) during her psychiatry residency at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rorro completed an Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She cares for veterans in the Department of Veterans Affairs New Jersey VA Healthcare System and created her “A Few Good Notes” therapeutic music program for veterans. She is also a musician, songwriter, and poet. Dr. Rorro is the recipient of a Jefferson Award, which is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious recognition program for volunteer public service, and the official recognition program of the United States Senate.
Dr. Sydelle Ross is an anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist who currently practices hospice and palliative medicine. She holds board certifications in all three disciplines. Dr. Ross received her doctor of medicine degree from Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her residency training in anesthesiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital- Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Ross completed her fellowship training in pain medicine at the Hospital of The University of Pennsylvania and she currently practices in the New Jersey Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.
Dr. Ross is a classically trained vocalist who uses the gift of music to care for her patients who are living with life-threatening or life-limiting illnesses. She is the host of a podcast entitled Prescriptions In Song, whose goal is to promote awareness of the healing potential of music. Dr. Ross is a recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s Humanism in Medicine Award, which recognizes physicians who are exemplars of compassionate patient care and who serve as role models, mentors and leaders in medicine.

This event will be hosted by Dr. Mohan Sundararaj MBBS, MPH, IAMM’s Chair of Development and Finance.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Andrés Ojeda and Miguel Basabe
2021-11-08 17:00 - 18:00
This presentation will focus on a study which identifies through a brain-computer interface, the correlation between the records of encephalographic signals of intergenerational music therapy activities, with the regulation of emotions. Emotion regulation is conceptualized as momentary affective states which arise from experiences that modify various areas of the brain, and the physical and psychological functioning of people.
A convenience sample of 14 adults, youth and children in an age range between 7 and 74 years participated in the study, forming an intergenerational group. The participants were evaluated simultaneously during 16 sessions.
The data were processed quantitatively through non-parametric statistics with Wilcoxon signed rank test, then qualitatively interpreted with a categorical analysis matrix for the triangulation of information, thus identifying the emotional regulation strategies resulting from intergenerational music therapy methods.
The results show that intergenerational music therapy methods and techniques significantly facilitate the regulation of emotions for individuals and groups in terms of attention and concentration; however, the study sample should be expanded for greater validity and reliability in the results.

About Our Guests
Andrés Felipe Ojeda Sánchez, MM, MT, Music Conductor and Master in Music Therapy from the National University of Colombia. His work has been focused on music and neuroscience, specifically in rehabilitation processes and neurodegenerative diseases to contribute to the individual and collective well-being.
Currently, he works as a professor and researcher at the Conservatory of Music and in the Master’s Degree in Music Therapy of the National University of Colombia. His research results of Clinical Music Therapy have been shared in several conferences and events. Likewise, he works as a music therapist serving individual, group and clinical population, including people affected by Covid-19 pandemic’s confinement.
Miguel Ángel Basabe, MM, MT, National University of Colombia. Psychologist, Master in Music Therapy and teacher at the National University of Colombia, he has worked for several years as a coordinator and consultant of public health in different government projects. He has worked in the field of mental health in institutions such as the Red Cross and the ICBF, among others.
He recently completed studies in data engineering and artificial intelligence as a fellow of the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies of Colombia. In his role as a professor in public and private universities in the country, he has participated as a lecturer in various national and international conferences.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With the Nordic Network on Research in Music and Public Health
2021-11-05 09:00 - 10:00
In this conversation with Lars Ole Bonde (Denmark), Karette Stensæth/Gro Trondalen (Norway), Eva Bojner Horwitz (Sweden) and Suvi Saarikallio (Finland), we will learn about the Nordic Network on Research in Music and Public Health. The network formed in 2016 with the purpose of gathering researchers from the fields of music therapy, music psychology and public health to stimulate collaboration and new studies on how music can promote and maintain health. The conversation will touch on past, current, and future studies led by members of this network, such as: Health of music professionals, Choral singing as health promotion, Musical participation in a public health perspective, Health musicking for a number of target groups

About our Guests
Suvi Saarikallio, PhD, Docent of Music Psychology, works as associate professor of music education at the Center for Interdisciplinary Music Research, Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is an expert in music psychological research on emotion regulation, youth psychosocial development, and emotional wellbeing. After completing a PhD in Music Education in 2007, Saarikallio has rapidly established an internationally acknowledged research career combining approaches from music psychology, music therapy, and music education, using methods from qualitative theory development to motion capture, neural measures, and psychometrics, and actively publishing her work in the top journals of the field.
Karette Stensæth, PhD, is professor in music therapy at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where she also works as the director of the Centre for Research in Music and Health (CREMAH). Her research interest is broad and involves social and phil- osophical perspectives on music and health. Stensæth has edited several books in the CREMAH Series. Her fresh monograph is on responsiveness in music therapy improvisation inspired by Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideas. Stensæth has much clinical experience as a music therapist working with children and youth with special needs. She sings, plays, and composes music in her spare time.
Gro Trondalen, PhD, FAMI is a professor in music therapy and a senior researcher of the Centre for Research in Music and Health (CREMAH) at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway. She is an experienced music therapy clinician, researcher, and supervisor, and maintains a private practice in The Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM).
Eva Bojner Horwitz, PhD, professor of music and health, cultural health researcher, and specialized in psychosomatic medicine and creative arts, working at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. She is a co-founder at the Center for Social Sustainability, CSS, Karolinska Institutet (KI) Sweden,researcher at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience KI and Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University. She is anchored in interdisciplinary research, has doctoral students, authored scientific articles, books, and book chapters. Her research expertise covers interventions with music/dance/theater, focusing on alexithymia, creative achievement, embodiment, emotional regulation, multimodality, knowledge concerts, nature-related activities, fairy tales and public health.
Lars Ole Bonde, PhD, FAMI, is a former professor in music therapy at AalborgUniversity (DK) and professor emeritus at Center for Research in Music and Health (CREMAH) at the Norwegian Academy of Music (N). He is a certified music therapist and clinical supervisor. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked as music and concert producer. He served as associate editor of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy until 2017. His current research projects include music and public health, music therapy for people suffering from schizophrenia, and monographs on the Danish composers Bent Lorentzen and John Høybye. He has published numerous books, book chapters, and articles on the theory and practice of music therapy, music psychology, music edu- cation, music theatre – and music and health.

This event will be hosted by Suzanne B. Hanser, EdD, MT-BC, IAMM’s President.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Nuria Escude & Rafael Ramirez-Melendez
2021-10-30 15:00 - 16:00
Music is known to have the power to induce strong emotions. In this talk we will assess, based on Electroencephalography (EEG) data, the emotional response of terminally ill cancer patients to a music therapy intervention in a randomized controlled trial. A sample of 40 participants from the palliative care unit in the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona was randomly assigned to two groups of 20. The first group [experimental group (EG)] participated in a session of music therapy (MT), and the second group [control group (CG)] was provided with company. Based on our previous work on EEG-based emotion detection, instantaneous emotional indicators in the form of a coordinate in the arousal-valence plane were extracted from the participants’ EEG data. The emotional indicators were analyzed in order to quantify (1) the overall emotional effect of MT on the patients compared to controls, and (2) the relative effect of the different MT techniques applied during each session. EEG data analysis showed a significant increase in valence (p = 0.0004) and arousal (p = 0.003) during the MT session in the EG. No significant changes were found in the CG. Artificial intelligence techniques were applied to build computational predictive models of music therapy outcomes before the session took place.

About our Guests
Dr. Rafael Ramirez (Prof, PhD) is a Tenured Associate Professor and Leader of the Music and Machine Learning Lab at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He is Lecturer and Research Coordinator in the Master in Music Therapy, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics form the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and his MSc and PhD in Artificial Intelligence and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, UK. He studied Classical Violin and Guitar at the National School of Music in Mexico, and since then he has played with different music groups in Europe, America and Asia. For five years, Rafael was a Lecturer in National University of Singapore. His research interests include music technology, music therapy, artificial intelligence, and their application to health and well-being. In particular, he has conducted research on the impact of music and music therapy in autism, emotional disorders, palliative care, cerebral palsy, stroke, and parkinson decease. He has published more than 120 research articles in peer-reviewed international Journals and Conferences, and acted as guest-editor of several special issues focused on music and artificial intelligence.
Núria Escudé (BA, Mth) is a lecturer and Director of the Music Therapy Program at the University of Barcelona since 2002. She is a psychologist and qualified piano teacher. She is also director and Music Therapist at the Catalan Institute of Music Therapy, where she has worked with children with special needs for the last 15 years in collaboration with the Barenboim Said Fundation. Member of the Board of the Directors of the International Association for Music & Medicine. Nuria is working and researching music therapy in NICU (University Hospital Terrassa), and RBL (Rhythm, Breath, & Lullaby), and works in the Oncology and Paliative Care Units in UPS Hospital Esperanza, Barcelona, and also works in the Hospital San Juan de Dios, Barcelona, with patients affected with Alzheimer’s disease.

This event will be hosted by Dr. Josep Planas Domingo, member of IAMM’s Board of Directors.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Jennifer Buchanan
2021-10-19 13:00 - 14:00
Like many music therapists, Jennifer started with a huge mission. She wanted to help people in their pursuit of optimum health. But after running her private practice for twenty years, even with thousands of clients and loyal staff, she felt burned out and not sure if her private practice would make it. Rather than quit, Buchanan went on an intense quest to prove her private practice’s viability and identify the key components of sustainable healthcare practices. She would need everything she learned a decade later to make it through the pandemic and on to the post-covid world.

About the Guest
Founder of JB Music Therapy private practice in 1991….now almost 30 years later we have a team of 18 certified music therapists. Author of two award-winning books, ‘Wellness Incorporated’ and ‘Tune In’ with a new book as of October 10 that features the Power of a Playlist. Jennifer is regularly invited to speak at healthcare, and wellness focused conferences and rounds out her career with an Executive MBA – currently using these skills as the Executive Director of the Canadian Associaton of Music Therapists.
This event will be hosted by Aksana Kavaliova-Moussi, MTA, member of Music and Medicine’s Editorial Board.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Sebastian Hachmeyer
2021-09-29 11:00 - 12:00
In a recent article about musical healing in the Bolivian Andes (Hachmeyer 2019), Sebastian Hachmeyer focused on performative and kinaesthetic aspects of collective flute music and dance as part of a place-based bodily understanding of healing in the Andes. He argued that health and sickness, but also music and dance, can be very different things depending on ontological perspective.
In this conversation, he wishes to turn to sound as a source of healing in the Andes. He will discuss sound within three spheres: Sound as Energy, Sound in Environment, and Sounds of (Dis)Harmony.
About the Guest
Sebastian Hachmeyer is a Post-Doc Researcher at Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany. He received his PhD in Music and Geography from Royal Holloway University of London. Sebastian is a human ecologist, environmental geographer, and ethnomusicologist specialised in ecomusicology. Besides climate change, materiality of music/musical instruments, and questions of sustainability, his research in Bolivia further addresses issues surrounding musical healing and the relationship to place and the spiritual environment of the Andes.

This event will be hosted by Samuel Gracida, MA, MT, IAMM Chair of Communications and Outreach, Operating Director at Sam’s Fans, and leader in diverse projects regarding music therapy in Germany, Mexico, and Internationally.

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IAMM With You: In Conversation With Siva Kumar
2021-09-21 10:00 - 11:00
Every person has the potential to heal themselves by discovering and abiding in the Spiritual dimension. Music is perhaps the most easily accessible route to reach this destination. That’s why, a strong role for music in all religious and spiritual traditions across various cultures throughout the ages could be discerned. However, an awareness regarding the mechanism of its working is very important to sustain the gains. Like a map being perused before the actual visit, the role of music in the scheme of things needs to be understood well. In Eastern philosophy, especially Indian, being perhaps among the oldest asserts the individual mind as the centre of the universe. Once this background canvas is experientially established, the individual personality and the world revealed through the mind get realized as separate un-entangled entities.
To reiterate, the revealing non-localized intelligence, which is the essence of oneself, is thereafter known as something not entangled in the enormous and confusing visible panaroma. This clarity affords real and absolute freedom that enables healing to happen at all levels. Music is perhaps the most easiest and endearing means for the mind to become lucid enough to experience and abide in this dimension. In this presentation, an attempt shall be made to decipher a few relevant verses of scriptural instructions enunciated by someone universally acknowledged as the greatest sage of the 20th century, Ramana Maharishi, whom the father of psychoanalysis Carl Jung glorified as the “whitest spot in the white space”. Come, let’s explore this dimension together!

About the Guest
Siva Kumar currently, is associated with the Research Department at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kerala, South India, the institution inspired by globally acclaimed spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. He is a post-graduate with M.Phil degree in life sciences and worked in the biopharmaceutical and medical diagnostics industry for over two decades earlier including heading the organization’s corporate training institution as well. He has been disseminating the teachings of Ramana Maharishi for the past several years. He cherishes teaching Indian philosophical thoughts to post-graduate students of Clinical Psychology and value education classes to undergraduates at the healthcare campus of this leading university. He firmly believes that humanity has no option but to evolve to the higher spiritual consciousness in order to establish genuine peace in a world where expanding competitive cultural and religious boundaries cause friction.

This event will be hosted by Maria Montserrat Gimeno Domènech, EdD., LCAT, MT-BC, a member of IAMM’s Board of Directors.

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Welcome to IAMM With You - Fall Edition!
2021-09-06 12:00 - 13:00
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.
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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.
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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

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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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