Dr. Cheryl Dileo
Dr. Darlene Brooks
Dr. Kenneth Aigen
Dr. Wendy Magee

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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. Additionally, Dr. Dileo was named Carnell Professor of Music Therapy at Temple University.

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 Incorporation Officer. 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. Her book, Ethical thinking in Music Therapy, is the only music therapy text on the topic. Her books have been translated into other languages.

Publication-wise, she has:

• authored 1 book (on music therapy ethics)
• edited 3 books (on medical music therapy and international practices in music therapy)
• co-edited 4 books (on medical music therapy and music therapy education and training)
• co-authored 3 books (on medical music therapy and music therapy education and training)
• authored 60 book chapters for edited volumes
• contributed more than 25 articles to refereed journals.

Her current research interests include:

1. quantitative analyses and meta-analyses of the effects of music therapy on the longevity, biomedical, biochemical and psychosocial factors of medical and terminally ill patients;
2. the development and testing of new music therapy interventions in medicine, particularly involving songs, entrainment, and improvised music;
3. theory development in medical music therapy from a biopsychosocial perspective;
4. multicultural issues in music therapy practice;
5. outcomes of various approaches to teaching professional ethics.
6. experiential training in music therapy
7. spirituality, meaning and the use of narratives in music therapy practice.

Professor Dileo can be reached via e-mail at cdileo@temple.edu.

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Dr. Brooks served on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Music Therapy for eight years, and the Certification Board for Music Therapists for six years. At Loyola University, Dr. Brooks was Coordinator of Music Therapy. In addition, she served on the Curriculum Committee, The Dean's Advisory Board, and several university committees, and she chaired the College of Music Rank & Tenure Committee. At Temple, Dr. Brooks is the Director of Music Therapy, Coordinator of the Masters Program in Music Therapy, teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses, and serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies for Boyer College of Music & Dance, on the Boyer Executive Council and other committees in the college. She has presented at numerous conferences and workshops, and has several clinical and research publications; and over the last twenty years, she has also maintained an active interest in performing in community musical theatre. She has served on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Music Therapy and is presently on the Editorial Board for The Arts in Psychotherapy. Her current interests include: GIM, alternative medicine, and music therapy education and supervision.

Professor Brooks can be reached via email at dmbrooks@temple.edu.

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Kenneth Aigen has a BA degree in psychology and philosophy ( University of Wisconsin-Madison ) and MA and DA degrees in music therapy ( New York University ). He has worked as a music therapist since 1982 with extensive experience with both children and adults in a wide variety of clinic and school settings. Clinical specialties include work with developmentally-delayed children and adults in psychiatry. He is a Board-Certified Music Therapist (MT-BC), a New York state Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT) and has certification as a Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapist (NRMT). He spent many years working with music therapy pioneers Florence Tyson at the Creative Arts Rehabilitation Center (CARC), and Carol and Clive Robbins at the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University , where he served as Co-Director until 2006. Dr. Aigen has also been a Senior Researcher at Aalborg University Center ( Denmark ) and a Visiting Professor at Nagoya Institute of the Arts ( Japan ).

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