IAMM 2020 International Conference Organizing Committee Membership

President, Organizing Committee, IAMM 2020 Conference

Suzanne B. Hanser, Ed.D., MT-BC

  • Chair Emerita, Professor, Music Therapy Department, Berklee College of Music

Committee members:

Joy Allen, Ph.D., MT-BC

  • Chair, Music Therapy, Berklee College of Music
  • Acting Director, Music and Health Institute, Berklee College of Music

Douglas Brandoff, M.D.

  • Physician Leader, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI)
  • Schwartz Center Rounds
  • Senior Physician, DFCI
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Attending, Palliative Care Clinic

Marcela Castillo-Rama, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor, Berklee College of Music

Mark Fuller, MT-BC, N.M.T.

  • Music Therapist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Suzanne B. Hanser, Ed.D., MT-BC

  • Committee Chair
  • Professor/Chair Emerita, Music Therapy, Berklee College of Music

Ron Hirschberg, M.D.

  • Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School
  • Director, Consultation Physiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital

Brian Jantz, MT-BC, L.P.M.T.

  • President-Elect, New England Region, American Music Therapy Association
  • Assistant Professor, Music Therapy, Berklee College of Music
  • Music Therapist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Psyche Loui, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice, Northeastern University

Sharon M. Lynch

  • Manager, Operations and Events, Music and Health Institute, Berklee College of Music

Tanya Maggi

  • Dean of Community Engagement and Professional Studies, New England Conservatory

Marisol S. Norris, Ph.D., MT-BC

  • Assistant Professor, Division of Expressive Therapies, Lesley University

Phillip L. Pearl, M.D.

  • 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

Kim Perlak, D.M.A.

  • Chair, Guitar Department, Berklee College of Music

David Silbersweig, M.D.

  • Chairman, Department of Psychiatry
  • Codirector, Neuroscience Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Harvard Medical School Academic Dean
  • Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Rebecca Strauss

  • Violist, Music Director, Educator
  • Music for Healing and  Social Justice
  • Riverview Chamber Players

Moisès Fernandez Via

  • Director, ARTS/LAB @ Med Campus, College of Fine Arts, Boston University
  • Boston Medical Center

Lisa M. Wong, M.D.

  • Assistant Codirector, Arts and Humanities Initiative, Harvard Medical School
  • Past President, Longwood Symphony Orchestra

Jennifer Zuk, Ph.D., 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