June 8 - 11, 2011

 

ISMM in conjunction with Augsburg College Faculty of Music / Music Therapy, co-sponsored by American Music Therapy Association (AMTA), Institute for Music Research University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, Regional Pain Center DGS & MusicMedicine Research Lab – Sportklinik Hellersen, Germany.

 

 

Conference Goals

 

The conference will provide an interdisciplinary and international forum for an exchange of achievements in the field, state of the art research & applications of music in Medicine, Music Therapy, and Counseling.

 

Scientific research results, methods, standards, definitions and empirical findings as well as creative and innovative concepts will be discussed, clinical programs displayed on site. 

 

Conference Chairs: 

Roberta Kagin, Ralph Spintge,

Conference Steering Committee:

Bridget Doak, Annie Heiderscheit, Sandra Holten,

Katie Lindenfelser, Roberta Kagin

Regional Organizing Committee:

Cheryl Dileo, Bridget Doak, Stefan Friedrichsdorf,

Norman Goldberg, Annie Heiderscheit, Donald Hodges,  

Sandra Holten, Roberta Kagin, Katie Lindenfelser,

Fred Schwartz, Robert Stacke

 

International Scientific Committee:

Eckart Altenmüller Germany,  Thimothy Culbert USA, Klaus-Ernst Behne Germany, Bill Bowen USA, Hans-Helmut Decker-Voigt Germany, Cheryl Dileo USA, Bridget Doak USA, Thanasis Dritsas Greece, Roland Droh Germany, Jane Edwards Ireland, Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt Germany, Jaakko Erkkila Finland, Reinhard Flatischler Austria, Peter Fox USA, Stefan Friedrichsdorf USA/Germany, Heiner Gembris Germany, Norman Goldberg USA, Denise Grocke Australia, Suzanne Hanser USA, Annie Heiderscheit USA, Donald Hodges USA, Ronna Kaplan USA, Horst Kächele Germany, Merilee Klemp USA, Gunter Kreutz, Germany, Deforia Lane USA, Katie Lindenfelser USA, Joanne Loewy USA, Raymond MacDonald UK, Monika Noecker Germany, Claire O´Callaghan Australia, Helmut Petsche Austria, Theo Plesser Germany,  Barbara Reuer USA, Germany, Albrecht Schneider Germany, Fred Schwartz USA, Olav Skille Norway, Henk Smeijsters Netherlands, Margaret Sommerville Canada, Ralph Spintge Germany, Robert Stacke USA, Jayne Standley USA, Carley Stuber USA, Mohan Sundararaj USA, Mari Tervaniemi Finland, Michael Thaut USA/Germany, Tadanobu Tsunoda Japan, Anni Warri Finland, Barbara Wheeler USA, Manfred Zimmermann Germany

 

Conference Venue:

Augsburg College, off-campus and clinical sites, Minneapolis MN, USA Children’s Hospital, Penny George Institute for Health and Healing (Abbott Northwestern Hospital), Struthers Parkinson´s Center (Park Nicollet Health Services)

Conference Date: June 9 - 12, 2011
The Conference will comprise oral presentations, mini-lectures, workshops, poster sessions, clinical demonstrations on-site, and an industrial exhibition. For submission of presentations and pre-registration and for further information please write to: 

 

Professor Dr. Ralph Spintge

President, ISMM

Sportklinik Hellersen

Paulmannshoeherstr. 17

D-58515 Luedenscheid

Germany

 

or

 

Professor Roberta Kagin, PhD, MT-BC

Director, Music Therapy       

Augsburg College, Box 311P      

2211 Riverside Ave. 

Minneapolis, MN  55419 U.S.A