08:00-09:30 Arrival and Registration
09:30-09:40 Welcome Address - MacCarthy Room
Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
Director, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
09:40-10:30 Keynote Presentation - MacCarthy Room
Addressing Cultural and Familial Aspects of Care in Medicine through Music
Joanne Loewy, DA, MT-BC, LCAT (USA)
10:30-11:30 Concurrent sessions
Music and Health - MacCarthy Room
Can Music Make Us Healthy? The Psychoneuroimmunology of Music
Suzanne Hanser, EdD, MT-BC (USA)
Music and Medicine: A Model for Treating Musicians
Stephan Quentzel, MD, JD, MA (USA)
Music in Intensive Care - O’Mara Room
Music and the Heart in the ICU and OR
Fred Schwartz, MD (USA)
Basic Principles of Music Therapy in Intensive Care
Gerhard Tucek, PhD (Austria)
Research and music in medicine - O’Brien Room
Research Practices and Outcomes: Researching Music Therapy in Oncology and Palliative Care
Clare O’Callaghan, PhD, RMT (Australia)
Outcomes of Music and Music Therapy in Medicine: Results of Meta-Analyses with a Future Research Agenda
Cheryl Dileo, PhD, MT-BC (USA)
11.30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:00 Concurrent sessions
Children and Caregiver Music Centred Approaches - MacCarthy Room
Music Therapy with Hearing Impaired Children in Aural/Oral Habilitation
Patsy Tan, PhD, MT-BC (Singapore)
Meeting the Needs of Nurses: Therapeutic Music Group for Stress Management
Viktoria Korneeva, BA, MT-BC (USA)
Brain and Music - O’Mara Room
Influence of Music on the Neural Stem Behaviour
Neysa Navarro, MD, PhD (Spain)
Music activities and Music Therapy with persons with severe dementia
Hanne Mette Ridder, PhD (Denmark)
Music in Cancer Care - O’Brien Room
Roles of Music in Cancer Control: A Comprehensive Approach
Patravoot Vatanasapt, MD, MS (Thailand)
Developing a Music Therapy Program for Patients with Breast Cancer in an Outpatient Setting
Barbara Wheeler, PhD, MT-BC (USA)
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Keynote Presentation - MacCarthy Room
Music Therapy in Neurological Rehabilitation
David Aldridge, PhD, FRSM (Germany)
15:15-16:15 Concurrent sessions
Integrating Evidence and Meaning within Clinical Practice - MacCarthy Room
Searching for Evidence: Music Therapy and Stroke
Jaakko Erkkilä, PhD (Finland)
Creative Discussions on Evidence Based Medicine
Jane Edwards, PhD (Ireland)
Music and Affect - O’Mara Room
Grief and the Creative Arts
Sandra Bertman, PhD (USA)
Acoustic Medicine: Effectiveness of a Newly Developed Form of Receptive Music Therapy in the Treatment of Depression
Vera Brandes (Austria)
Mixed Models - O’Brien Room
Music Therapy as a BioPsychoSocial and Ethnic model of Cancer Care
Sumathy Sundar, PhD (India)
Music Therapy in Integrative Oncology: Care of Patients, Family members and Staff in a cancer medical setting
Lucanne Magill, DA, MT-BC (Canada) and David Aldridge, PhD, FRSM (Germany)
16:15-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-17:15 Closing remarks and presentation of SAGE Publications paper prize MacCarthy Room
17:15-18:00 Making connections: Time to mingle
18:00 Conference ends