Dr. Cheryl Dileo received her PhD in Music Education for College Teaching from Louisiana State University and her Bachelor's and Master's in Music Therapy from Loyola University of the South. She is a Board-certified music therapist with a number of years of experience as a clinician and consultant. She currently coordinates the Master's Program in Music Therapy, the music therapy clinical programs at Temple University Hospital and is a music therapist at Compassionate Care Hospice. In addition, she is the Director of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center at Temple University. She has served as Program Coordinator of Music Therapy and on a number of college and university committees. She founded the music therapy program at the University of Evansville and has served on the music therapy faculty at Loyola University. She was named the McAndless Distinguished Scholar and Professor in the Humanities for the 2002-3 academic year at Eastern Michigan University. She has served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Music Therapy and Music Therapy: The Journal of the American Association for Music Therapy. She is currently a consulting editor for the International Journal of Arts in Psychotherapy, the International Journal of Arts Medicine, and the Journal of Music Therapy and MusicMedicine (Germany). She serves as a grant consultant for the National Institute of Health, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and the National Cancer Institute. She has held a variety of leadership positions in the National Association for Music Therapy, including President, Vice-President, and Council Coordinator. She played a leading role in the development of the NAMT Code of Ethics, and currently Co-Chairs AMTA's Ethics Board. She has received the Association's Award of Merit, the highest award given by the Association, as well as the AMTA Distinguished Research/Publication Award. She has also served in a variety of leadership positions for the World Federation of Music Therapy, including, President, Past-President, Chair of the Commission on Ethics and she currently serves as Business Manager. She developed the WFMT Guidelines for Ethics and Research. She has given more than 200 lectures and workshops in this country and abroad, having conducted lecture tours in 17 countries on 5 continents. She has authored/edited co-edited 12 books and over 70 book chapters. Her research interests include:  quantitative analyses and meta-analyses of the effects of music therapy in medicine, the development and testing of new music therapy interventions in medicine, particularly involving songs, entrainment, and improvised music; multicultural issues in music therapy practice; and spirituality, meaning and the use of narratives in music therapy practice.

Contact:

Dr. Cheryl Dileo, MT-BC

012-00 Temple University

Philadelphia, PA 19122

Phone: 215-204-8542

Fax: 215-204-1982

Email: aqlrcenter@temple.edu