Pearls of Wisdom

The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine is commemorating its 30th anniversary in 2024. Using this milestone as an anchor point, today on May 6, 2024, we hope to convene and stimulate clinicians, researchers and therapists to present some new and novel achievements in reflecting on how far the practice and field of music therapy in medicine and music and medicine has come.

Together with Carola Werger adn Marijke Groothuis, we are presenting the newest developments in Music, Health and Technology at the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital New York. 

Acknowledging many of our past speakers and conferences, this symposium will set the course for the future decades. We will target influential trends in disease mangement such as the inclusion of, Healing breath, Oncology, AI, with definition and Explication of how Diversity will be addressed. Additional focusing on various landmarks in practice development such as population-based care: NICU, pediatrics, older adults and clinic-based mental health will stimulate our celebration. Enriching areas will include live, music-based care in maintaining well-being as it is our hope that leaders, influencers, researchers, and developers will attend. This event is meant to be cross-audience in order to facilitate high-level learning that will move the field forward across generations and cultures.