MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
IAMM 2020 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
MAY, 2020
PRESIDENT, ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, IAMM 2020 CONFERENCE:
Suzanne B. Hanser, EdD, MT-BC
Chair Emerita, Professor, Music Therapy Department
Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Joy Allen, PhD, MT-BC
Chair, Music Therapy Department
Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Douglas Brandoff, MD
Physician Leader, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) Schwartz Center
Rounds, Senior Physician, DFCI, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard
Medical School,
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Attending, Palliative Care Clinic
Marcela Castillo-Rama MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Mark Fuller, MT-BC, NMT
Music Therapist
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts,USA
Ron Hirschberg, MD
Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Harvard
Medical School
Director, Consultation Physiatry Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
Massachusetts, USA
Brian Jantz, MT-BC, LPMT
President-Elect, New England Region, American Music Therapy Association
Assistant Professor, Music Therapy, Berklee College of Music
Music Therapist, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Psyche Loui, PhD
Assistant Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Sharon Lynch
Manager, Operations & Events, Music & Health Institute
Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Tanya Maggi
Dean of Community Engagement and Professional Studies
New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Marisol S. Norris, PhD, MT-BC
Assistant Professor, Division of Expressive Therapies
Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Phillip L. Pearl, MD
President-Elect, Child Neurology Society
Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
William G. Lennox Chair, Boston Children’s Hospital
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts, UUSA
Kim Perlak, DMA
Chair, Guitar Department
Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
David Silbersweig, MD (correspondence to Rachel: ryaffe@bwh.harvard.edu)
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
Co-Director, Neuroscience Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School Academic Dean
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Stanley Cobb
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,
USA
Rebecca Strauss
Violist, Music Director, Educator
Music for Healing and Social Justice
Riverview Chamber Players
Moisès Fernández Via
Director, ARTS/LAB @ Med Campus
College of Fine Arts, Boston University
Boston Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Lisa M. Wong, MD
Assistant Co-Director
Arts and Humanities Initiative
Harvard Medical School,
Past President, Longwood Symphony Orchestra
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Jennifer Zuk, PhD, CF-SLP
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience
Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Clinical Fellow in Speech-Language Pathology
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
MEMBERS OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
IAMM 2020 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
MAY, 2020
CHAIR, SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, IAMM 2020 CONFERENCE:
Vera Brandes, MSc
Vice President of IAMM, president of I.M.A.R.A.A. (International Music
and Arts Research Association Austria)
Vienna, Austria,
Director Emeritus of the Research Program for Music-Medicine at
Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Erik Baumann, MMT
Music Therapist, Clinical Psychologist
Lima, Peru
Bussakorn Binson, PhD
Dean, Faculty Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Director of FAA – Emili Sagol Research and Innovation for Well-being
Center
Bangkok, Thailand
Penny Brill
Founder, MUSACOR.com [Musicians as a Community Resource]
Violist, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Pennsylvania, USA
Lyz Cooper, MA, MSc, FICNM, FRSPH
Principal, The British Academy of Sound Therapy
Director and Co-founder, Therapeutic Sound Association (TSA)
Pulborough, UK
Josep Planas, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine of the Autonomous University Barcelona
Head of Section Emeritus, Palliative Care Unit, Hospital del Mar
President , Catalan-Balearic Society of Palliative Care
Barcelona, Spain
Ellen Gentle, PhD
Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist, Music Neuropsychologist
Melbourne, Australia
Maria Montserrat Gimeno, EdD, LCAT, MT-BC
Fellow and Primary Trainer, Association for Music and Imagery
Associate Professor Emerita, Music Therapy Graduate Coordinator
State University of New York, New York, USA
Wendy Magee, PhD
Professor, Music Therapy Program,
Coordinator, Bachelor of Music in Music Therapy
Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA
Alison Rigby, MS, MA, MT-BC
Music Therapist, Good Vibrations
New Jersey, USA
Helen Shoemark, PhD
Associate Professor, Music Therapy Program
Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA
Sumathy Sundar, PhD
Director, Center for Music Therapy Education and Research
Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute
Pondicherry, India
Mohan Sundararaj, MD, MPH
Physician, Music Therapist
Director, Public Health Programs, MPact Global Action
California, USA
Patsy Tan, PhD, MT-BC, RMT
Researcher, Elder Conservatorium of Music
Faculty of Arts, The University of Adelaide
Music Therapist, Royal Adelaide Hospital
Adelaide, Australia