IAMM 2020 Online Conference
Saturday, May 30 – Sunday, May 31
Saturday, May 30, 2020 (Schedule refers to Eastern daylight savings time, USA)
8:30 – 9:00
Welcome
Patravoot Vatanasapt, MD
President, IAMM
9:00 – 9:30
“Arts Research and Sound Health”
Sunil Iyengar
Research and Analysis Director, National Endowment for the Arts, USA
9:30 – 9:45
Q&A
9:45 – 10:00
Break (Listen to music performed by IAMM members)
10:00 – 10:30
Concert / Lecture: “’Fix Me Not’ – Beethoven and Burnout”
Moisès Fernández Via
Pianist and Founding Director of Arts | Lab @ Med Campus
Boston University Medical School
10:30 – 10:45
Q&A
10:45 – 11:00
Break (Listen to music performed by IAMM members)
11:00 – 11:45
Panel: “Finding Harmony: The Music Response to COVID-19”
Brian Jantz, Moderator, Boston Children’s Hospital, Berklee College of Music
Speakers: Tian Gao, J. Todd Frazier, Jennifer Townsend, Seneca Block, Mark Fuller, Hannah Foxman
11:45 – 12:00 noon
Q&A
12:00 – 13:00
Midday Break
13:00 – 13:30
“Music and Medicine: Strengthening Connections, Creating Opportunities”
Lisa Wong, MD
Assistant Co-Director, Arts and Humanities Initiative, Harvard Medical School
Past President, Longwood Symphony Orchestra
13:30 – 13:45
Q&A
13:45 – 14:00
Break (Listen to music performed by IAMM members)
14:00 – 14:30
“Possible Futures for Music and Medicine”
Tod Machover
Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Music and Media
Academic Head and Director of the Opera of the Future Group
MIT Media Lab
14:30 – 14:45
Q&A
14:45 – 15:00
Break (Listen to music performed by IAMM members)
15:00 – 15:30
“Enhancing Music’s Therapeutic Role in Critical Care”
Marvin McMillen, MD
Chief/Director of Perioperative Care
Department of Surgery, Berkshire Medical Center
Professor of Surgery, University of Massachusetts
15:30 – 15:45
Q&A
15:45 – 16:15
General Business Meeting of IAMM Members
16:20 – 16:50
Online Networking & Tea/Quarantini Time,
hosted by IAMM Board member, Dr. Wendy Magee
16:50 – 18:00
Extended break
18:00 – 19:30
Pre-recorded concert featuring Première of IAMM/WFMT Virtual Choir
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Sunday, May 31, 2020 (Schedule refers to Eastern daylight savings time, USA)
9:00 – 9:30
“Music Interventions in Cardiac Patients:
The Experience of Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center”
Dr. Athanasios Dritsas
Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center
Athens, Greece
9:30 – 9:45
Q&A
9:45 – 10:00
Break (Listen to music performed by IAMM members)
10:00 – 10:30
Concert / Lecture: “Embracing the Margins: Music, Adaptation & Pursuit of Excellence”
Adrian Anantawan
Violinist and Co-director of Music at the Conservatory Lab Charter School
Boston, MA
10:30 – 10:45
Q&A
10:45 – 11:00
Break (Listen to music performed by IAMM members)
11:00 – 11:30
“Sound Awareness – Where the Language of Silence meets the
Healing Medicine of Sound”
Chloë Goodchild
Singing Philosopher, Author, Founder The Naked Voice
Bristol, Great Britain
11:30 – 11:45
Q&A
11:45 – 13:00
Midday Break
13:00 – 13:30
“The Acoustic Intelligence of Ecosystems”
David Monacchi
Interdisciplinary artist, inventor and eco-acoustics researcher
Founder of Fragments of Extinction
Professor of Electroacoustics at State Conservatory of Pesaro, Italy
13:30 – 13:45
Q&A
13:45 – 14:00
Break (Listen to music performed by IAMM members)
14:00 – 14:30
“How Frequencies Affect Human Physiology and the Immune System”
Vera Brandes
International Music & Art Research Association
Vienna, Austria
14:30 – 14:45
Q & A
14:45 – 15:00
Break
15:00 – 15:30
Panel: “The Future of Music and Medicine”
Fred Schwartz, MD, Moderator
Melissa Mercadal-Brotons, President, World Federation of Music Therapy
Patravoot Vatanasapt, MD, President, International Association for Music & Medicine
Robert Saper, MD,
Past Chair of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health
15:30 – 15:45
Q&A
15:45 – 16:30
IAMM 10th Anniversary Program
Awards and Commendations
Piano concert by Athanasios Dritsas, MD
Department of Cardiology, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center
16:30 Close of conference
STAY TUNED FOR IAMM SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG)
SUMMER WEBINAR SERIES
Begins Thursday, June 4, 2020, 14:00 with Joanne Loewy & SIG members
NICU music therapy: Sharing international trends through integrative family-centered music psychotherapy
For full schedule of SIG webinars, see: