Welcome

The International Association for Music & Medicine was founded to promote an integrative perspective to applied music in health care. Pursuing an ambitious vision including the dissemination of high level research through the IAMM journal Music & Medicine published by SAGE and gathering a worldwide membership base, the IAMM offers immense capacity for directing attention towards the integration of a wide range of research initiatives and contemporary practices in the uses of music in the healthcare arena.

The IAMM promotes sharing and capacity building across a wide range of fields including arts medicine, music performance, performance arts medicine, music psychology, medical humanities, ethnomusicology, music cognition, music neurology, music therapy, music in hospitals, infant stimulation, and music medicine. The IAMM is a community with expertise to support the development of initiatives that provide capacity building in this area, promoting the further potential for research, practice and knowledge about music and medicine.

As a highly interdisciplinary forum for clinical practice and research initiatives in music and medicine IAMM’s goals include the sharing of methods and practices from the widest range of clinical and research perspectives possible. IAMM will promote expansion of knowledge in the field to foster program development and research initiatives.

Membership is open to anyone with an interest in music and healthcare and all are welcome. Members will automatically be subscribed to the journal Music & Medicine and will receive regular bulletins and newsletters of interest on this topic. The International Association for Music & Medicine was founded in 2009 at an inaugural meeting in Limerick, Ireland. IAMM has 35 founding members who have agreed to serve as the Board of Directors until 2014, and is led by an Executive Committee:

President: Jane Edwards, Ireland
Vice-President: Vera Brandes, Austria
Treasurer: Fred Schwartz, USA
Secretary: Patravoot Vatanasapt, Thailand
Committee Chairs: Connie Tomaino, USA
Global Reporting: Sumathy Sundar
Conference: Clare O’Callaghan, Australia
Communications and Outreach: Suzanne Hanser

The IAMM journal Music & Medicine is published by SAGE with co-editors in Chief Dr Joanne Loewy and Dr Ralph Spintge. An international meeting is held every two years. The first meeting was held in Limerick in 2009. The inaugural conference was held in conjunction with Mozart & Science III in Krems, Austria November 4-7, 2010, co-hosted with the International Music & Art Research Association Austria. Our next international conference will be held in Thailand in June 2012.