SPOTLIGHTS

Our Spotlight speakers and panels have been planned to address the congress theme, Connecting Borders.

The first panel will focus on connecting the borders of time – past, present and future in clinical practice; the second panel on connecting the borders of place – cultural music traditions within countries to transcultural understanding; the third panel on connecting the borders of people and professions to create dialogue, collaboration, and mutual progress, and the fourth panel on connecting ideas and inquiry to build knowledge and evidence for our work.

Following the three spotlight presentations on each panel, there will be opportunity for reflection, questions and interaction between speakers and the audience.

Learn more about our spotlight panels:

  1. Innovation and tradition in clinical practice
  2. Music Therapy in a global and clutural context
  3. Interdisciplinary borders: networks, relationships, and multidisciplinary work
  4. Personal and interpersonal borders research

WEDNESDAY

JULY 8

Innovation and Tradition in Clinical Practice

Moderator: Cheryl Dileo

  • How can AI help the music therapist? (Innovation and Tradition in Clinical Practice)
    Francisco Vico
  • Music therapy and the “psychedelic renaissance” in serious illness: Bonny’s sustaining legacy
    Clare O’Callaghan
  • Between tradition and innovation in medical music therapy: evolving practices in invasive and high intensity medical care
    Filippo Giordano

MODERATOR

Ceryl Dileo
PhD, MMT, MT-BC, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Music Therapy Emerita, Temple University. Past-President WFMT

SPEAKER

Francisco Vico
Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Malaga (Spain)

SPEAKER

Clare O’Callaghan
PhD, AM, MMus, BSW RMT RGIMT (Australia), St Vincent’s Hospital, The University of Melbourne (Australia)

SPEAKER

Filippo Giordano
PhD, MMus, RMT, EAMI (Italy), University of Bari, Conservatory of Music “A. Casella” L’Aquila (Italy)

THURSDAY

JULY 9

Music Therapy in a Global and Cultural Context

Moderator: Melissa Mercadal-Brotons

  • Music Therapy in the global and cultural (Indian) context
    Sumathy Sundar
  • Music Therapy in a Global and Cultural Context
    Nsamu Moonga
  • Culturally Responsive Music Therapy in an Ethnic Diversity Context: Inclusion and Well-Being-Oriented Approaches from China
    Bing Wang

MODERATOR

Melissa Mercadal Brotons
WFMT Congress Liaison

SPEAKER

Sumathy Sundar
PhD, FIMC (Austria), Chennai School of Music Therapy

SPEAKER

Nsamu Moonga
Music Therapist | Psychotherapist | Counsellor | MMT | BA Psychological Counselling | Dip. Counselling Psychology | Dip. Music Education, University of Pretoria (South Africa)

SPEAKER

Bing Wang
Minzu University of China (China)

FRIDAY

JULY 10

Interdisciplinary Borders: Networks, Relationships, and Multidisciplinary Work

Moderator: Enrico Ceccato

  • Crossing Borders: Establishing a Pediatric Hospice Home
    Katie Lindenfelser
  • The Power of One Voice: Merging Music, Psychology, and Service
    Lina Riachy
  • A music therapy team within an orchestra. Why? How?
    Juanita Eslava-Mejia

MODERATOR

Enrico Ceccato
PsyD, RMT (Italy), PhD st., AULSS 8 Berica, Hospital of Vicenza, University of Verona (Italy)

SPEAKER

Katie Lindenfelser
MT at Crescent Cove residential respite and hospice home in Minnesota (USA)

SPEAKER

Lina Riachy
PhD, MT (Lebanon), Lebanese University, Antonine University

SPEAKER

Juanita Eslava-Mejia
MMT, PhD, MMT, Head of social programs Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellin (Colombia)

SATURDAY

JULY 11

Personal and Interpersonal Borders Research

Moderator: Elvira Brattico, Alfredo Raglio

  • Advancing Music Therapy Through Comparative Effectiveness Research
    Joke Bradt
  • Controlled trials of music therapy around the world: why I still do them
    Christian Gold
  • Make the invisible visible: multimodal detectives, moments of interest and social neuroscience approaches in music therapy research
    Jorg Fachner

MODERATOR

Elvira Brattico
Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus (Denmark) – Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari (Italy)

MODERATOR

Alfredo Raglio
PhD, MA-MT, MMus (Italy), Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Pavia; University of Pavia; Conservatory of Music “G. Verdi”, Milan (Italy)

SPEAKER

Joke Bradt
PhD, MT-BC, Professor of Drexel University, Department of Creative Arts Therapies, Philadelphia (USA)

SPEAKER

Christian Gold
PhD, is Research Professor at NORCE Research AS, Bergen Norway; Adjunct Professor at the University of Bergen; and Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Vienna, (Austria)

SPEAKER

Jorg Fachner
Dr rer. medic., MSc, is Professor of Music, Health, and the Brain at the Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

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