Editorial Team
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Ralph Spintge, MD
Institute for Music Therapy, University for Music and Drama, Hamburg, Germany
Ralph Spintge MD, Dr.med., is Director of the Institute for Medical Music Research IMUR, Luedenscheid Germany, lifetime Professor for MusicMedicine at University for Music and Drama; Adjunct Professor em. at Institute for Music Research UTSA, Co-EIC Journal Music and Medicine. Since 1981 he conducted psychophysiological studies about anxioalgolytic effects of music in medical settings at various Universities such as Hirosaki/Japan, Vienna/Austria, Rotterdam/The Netherlands, New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music Sydney/Australia, and several german university hospitals. He published numerous articles and 23 books. He serves as President of the Int. Soc. for Music in Medicine ISMM, and is Honorary Member of IAMM, and of MusicTherapy Association of Catalonia/Spain, Board Member Skille-Lehikoinen Center for Vibroacoustic Research VIBRAC University of Jyväskylä Finland. His recent research projects include Individualized Music Therapy in chronic pain, medicofunctional music and HRV, implementation of medicofunctional sound scapes in medical settings.
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Amy Clements-Cortés, PhD, MTA, MT-BC, FAMI
University of Toronto, Music and Health Sciences; Wilfried Laurier University, Canada
Amy Clements-Cortes, PhD, RP, MTA, MT-BC is Assistant Professor, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto; Instructor and Supervisor, Wilfrid Laurier University; and Academic Coordinator & Instructor, Interdisciplinary Studies, Ryerson Chang School. She is a credentialed Music Therapist, Registered Psychotherapist and a Fellow in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, as well as in Neurologic Music Therapy. Amy has extensive clinical experience with a specialty in older adults, dementia and palliative care. She has authored multiple peer reviewed publications and given over 200 conference and/or invited academic presentations. Her research contributions have had a significant impact in the understanding of understudied phenomenon, resulting in excelled treatments and services provided by professionals in music and medicine. Amy is Research and Ethics Chair of the World Federation of Music Therapy (WFMT), and Managing Editor of the Music and Medicine journal. She is a former President of the WFMT and Canadian Association for Music Therapists.
Associate Editor
Mark Ettenberger, PhD, MA, MT
Mark is an Ethno-Music therapist trained in Austria and obtained his PhD in Music Therapy from Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He specialized in neonatal music therapy (RBL - Rhythm, Breath, Lullaby) at the Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine in New York and holds a M.A. in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace, University Jaume I, Spain. He currently lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia, where he is the director of SONO – Centro de Musicoterapia (www.sono.la) and a university lecturer at various music therapy programs internationally. He coordinates the music therapy services at several hospitals in Colombia and has a specific interest in researching music-based interventions and therapies in medical settings.
Associate Editor
Marija Pranjić, Ph.D., MT-BC
Dr. Marija Pranjić is a neuroscientist, music therapist, and pianist, currently a research fellow in the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, and a course instructor at Harvard University. Her research lies at the intersection of music, brain science, and developmental medicine, focusing on music-induced neuroplasticity and its biomedical applications. With academic and professional experience spanning Croatia (BMus/MMus), the United Kingdom (MA), Canada (PhD), and the United States, Dr. Pranjić is deeply committed to interdisciplinary scholarship and the rigorous dissemination of scientific knowledge. Her work has been supported by the GRAMMY Museum Grant, Harvard’s Interdisciplinary Mind Grant, and the MITACS Globalink Research Award, among others.
Production Editor
Erik Baumann, MMT
Private Practice, Lima, Peru
Erik Baumann MMT, Lima Peru, has a bachelor degree in Clinical Psychology and a Masters degree from Universitat de Barcelona. Worked at the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine in New York with Palliative Care, Oncology and Pediatrics, in the role of Intern and later International Research Scholar. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Music and Medicine, as well as the Production Editor for the Journal “Music and Medicine” (IAMM). He is a published writer and has presented his work in Spain, Sweden, New York, and several cities of Peru, and as an invited speaker at the IAMM Congress in China and Barcelona. He is currently working on his private practice, while creating, with a group of colleagues, awareness of music therapy, conferences, workshops, and promoting music therapy on the media, among others.
International Abstracts Editor
Bernardo Canga, MMT
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, USA
Bernardo Canga, MMT is an Intensive Care Specialist Music Therapist and Community Faculty at the Division of Global Health at Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk. He holds a Master Degree in Music Therapy from the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain and a Clinical Music Therapy Fellowship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, USA. Published author in medical and music therapy journals, he lectures regularly in national and international symposiums. He has a strong professional focus on International Health. As a Medical Educator for Physicians for Peace, he implemented training in Music Therapy and Pediatric Burn Care at their international sites. His research interests are currently therapeutic interventions on mental health with forcibly displaced populations.
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