MAR NEWS
Call For Papers for the 2011 Regional Conference
Proposals can be sent anytime after August 1, 2010. Please contact Nina Galerstein, Vice-President For Conference Planning, if you have any questions.
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Fall 2008
- Elaine Abbott accepted a position at Duquesne University and moved from Wilmington
Delaware to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She will serve as an Assistant Professor and Chair
of Music Therapy. - Julie and Brian Abrams, along with their son Jonathan recently moved from
Lansdowne, PA to Montclair, NJ. Julie left her music therapy position at Friends Hospital
in Philadelphia and now works as a music therapist at Essex County Hospital Center in
Cedar Grove, NJ. Brian left his faculty position at Immaculata University, and now serves
on the music therapy faculty at Montclair State University. - Gene Ann Behrens, associate professor at Elizabethtown College, has been appointed as
the Regional Liaison for North America for the World Federation of Music Therapy
Council. She will be representing the United States and territories and Canada on the
WFMT council. - Susan Hadley gave birth to her fourth son, Samuel Alexander Yancy, on August 6, 2008.
- Julie P. Neal’s proposal for Montgomery County Public Schools to be a new National
Roster Internship Site was approved.
The 1st International Music Therapy & Trauma Symposium:
Bridging Theory and Clinical Practice
June 9 & 10, 2008
Beth Israel Medical Center,
New York, NY
MAR Membership Support Fund -
Assistance for MAR Music Therapists to Pay AMTA Dues
The MAR-AMTA region offers a Membership Support Fund to provide to provide monetary assistance for music therapists who reside in the Mid-Atlantic region and have financial constraints that limit their ability to join AMTA. Click here to « download the application » which needs to be postmarked by October 1, 2008.
Nominations Sought for Education and Training Advisory Board
AMTA is seeking nominations for an at-large member of the Education and Training Advisory Board. The term will be 2008-2011.
This Board is intended to serve as a visionary body whose purpose is "to advise and make timely recommendations to AMTA for policy and action on issues related to music therapy education and clinical training" (AMTA Bylaws). The Advisory Board researched and wrote the AMTA Levels of Practice document that was adopted by the Assembly of Delegates in 2005. Currently, they are developing standards for the master's degree based on the recently adopted AMTA Advanced Competencies and will be addressing the issue of specialized training in the near future. Kenneth Aigen, Nicki Cohen, Cathy McKinney (chair), Paul Nolan, and Donna Polen currently serve as at-large members of this Board along with the chairs of the Academic Program Approval (Marilyn Sandness), Association Internship Approval (Christine Neugebauer), and Continuing Education (Jean Nemeth) committees. Please consider nominating someone who you think has the ability and experience to contribute to this Board. Self-nominations are also accepted.
Please send nominations by e-mail to Barbara Wheeler, AMTA President-Elect (Barbara.wheeler@louisville.edu), along with a statement of the contribution that he or she would make to the Advisory Board and his or her curriculum vitae (by Word attachment). This can be from either the nominator or the nominee. Please be sure that the nominee is willing to serve. Please send this information no later than January 25, 2008. E-mail nominations will be confirmed by e-mail; if you do not receive a confirmation, please follow up with a fax to Barbara Wheeler at 502-852-0520.
Please see the AMTA Bylaws, Article VIII, Section 3d, for more information.
A Symposium on Music, the Breath & Health: Advances in Integrative Music Therapy
January 28 & 29, 2008
Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City will host a symposium on Music, the Breath & Health: Advances in Integrative Music Therapy on Monday & Tuesday, January 28 & 29, 2008 from 9 am to 5 pm. This symposium incorporates a diverse array of topics on addressing the breath through music to promote health and wellbeing. Presenters will offer perspectives from the fields of music therapy, medicine, yoga, rehabilitation, dance movement therapy, drama therapy and other integrative healthcare professions. Sessions will include innovative music and medicine topics, clinical approaches and techniques with specific populations and special topics distinctly related to breathing. Keynotes include "Yoga: The Art of Breathing" by Richa Dhekne of the Art of Living Foundation on Monday, January 28, and "Pulmonary Wellness and Illness" by Dr. Jonathan Raskin, MD, Pulmonologist at the Center for Cardiac & Pulmonary Health, Beth Israel Medical Center on Tuesday, January 29. In addition, there are three concurrent sessions in three timeslots each day, with over 20 experts in the field included in the program. A detailed program will be issued shortly. Check the Events page on http://www.musicandmedicine.org for updates. CMTE credits available. Cosponsored by New York University.
Location
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center, 2nd Floor Conference Center, 10 Union Square East, between 14th and 15th Street, New York, NY 10003
Subways: 4, 5, 6, N, R, L, W & Q trains to Union Square.
Secure parking available in building, entrance on 15th Street, between Irving Place & Union Square East.
Registration
Join us for the full 2 days at $250 professional/$200 student, for one day at $125 professional/$100 student, or a half day at $75 professional/$50 student. Space is limited, pre-registration is recommended (pre-register through contact information below or check website for registration form to be posted shortly).
Contact Information
For more information or to pre-register please call (212) 420-2704 or email « info@musicandmedicine.org »
Check the Events & Symposia page on « http://www.musicandmedicine.org » for additional information and updates.
posted 12.4.07
MAR Funding Research and Special Projects: Call for Proposals
11/28/2007 - « Download the form »
AMTA Update
1/25/06 - Click here to see the PDF file of the Education and Training Advisory Board (ETAB) Levels of Practice document, which was approved by the Assembly in Orlando.
Conferences/Workshops
10/5/05 - Announcing the *new* Workshops for CMTEs page on our site. Look there to find CMTE or CEU workshops in our region.
Announcements and Recognition:
- 1/30/06 - Congratulations and thanks to Melinda Marks Burgard, M.A.,CMT who has been featured in an article about Music and Art Therapy in the Straus Newspapers of Orange County, New York. 1/18/06 - The 2006 Pittsburgh Conference information has been posted.
- 1/16/06 - Congratulations and thanks to members Jim Borling, Darlene Watson, and Allyson Zadnik who were featured in an article by the Fredericksburg, VA newspaper, "The Freelance Star" on 10/23/05.
- 1/9/06 - Proposed changes to the Constitution and Bylaws posted on the MAR Business page.
Newspaper Articles about MAR Music Therapists
- 8/2/07 - Using art, music, drama and dance to get patients off the couch and on the road to mental health. Article, featuring Lee Morris, on Creative Arts Therapy in the Health and Fitness Supplement (August 2007) of the Southampton Press
- 1/20/06 - Straus Newspapers of Orange County, New York featured Melinda Marks Burgard, M.A.,CMT in an article about Music and Art Therapy.
- 10/23/05 - The Freelance Star features Jim Borling, Darlene Watson, and Allyson Zadnik.
- 5/24/05 - New York Newsday features MAR members Evelyn Selesky, John Carpente, and Clive Robbins.
- Ann Dinsmore and Janice Stouffer were featured in an article on monster.com. Click here to read the article.
Update List
The following information tracks significant changes and additions that have been made to the web site within the prior year.
- 01/08/06 - Updated Conference info page, logo design contest
- 10/18/06 - Updates to home, MAR Historical section added, letter for article 163 - NYS posted
- 1/9/06 - Proposed changes to the Constitution and Bylaws posted on the MAR Business page.
- 1/9/06 - VMTA scholarship application are being accepted until Feb. 6, 2006. See VA page.