\u00a0<\/span>investment?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n– Using mixed-methods research approaches, the\u00a0lab<\/span>\u00a0will conduct a series of studies examining the impact of music through various modes of engagement, including music concerts and music therapy sessions. Pre- and post-intervention data will be collected from participants on outcomes such as depression and resilience, mood and affect, sleep quality, and quality of life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n Planned research experiences including “Well-being” music concerts. research articles, conference presentations, and a standardized assessment tool & manual that will inform creative arts therapists and other healthcare professionals about the impact that music engagement may have in depression.\u00a0Additional partners include Jon Batiste, Cooper Union, Third Street Music School, Young Adults Institute, and Lincoln Center Moments.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Our Team” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ background_enable_color=”off” min_height=”1721.8px” custom_margin=”||32px|||” custom_padding=”0px||0px|||” top_divider_color=”#0C71C3″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_padding=”0px|||||” custom_width_px=”710px” locked=”off”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ background_position=”top_left” custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Team Section Title” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ header_font=”Montserrat||||” header_text_color=”#1f1f1f” header_font_size=”36px” text_orientation=”center” max_width=”710px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”5px|||||” animation_direction=”bottom”]<\/p>\n
Our Research Team<\/h1>\n
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Joanne Loewy is the Director of\u00a0the Department of Music Therapy, and an Associate Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and a Founding Member of the International Association for Music and Medicine, and\u00a0<\/span>Editor in Chief of the international, peer reviewed journal ‘Music and Medicine’\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Christopher Pizzute MA, LCAT, MT-BC” position=”Site Designer, Music Therapist” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/loewylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2023\/03\/Untitled-design-14.png” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_text_color=”#000000″ position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#000000″ custom_margin=”56px||50px||false|false”]<\/p>\n
Christopher Pizzute, MA, MT-BC works in inpatient oncology and radiation oncology. He received his Masters in music therapy from Montclair State University and his Bachelor\u2019s degree in music composition\/music theory. His areas of expertise extend to palliative, psychiatric, pediatric and neonatal care.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Andrew Rossetti PhD, LCAT, MT-BC” position=”Music Therapist” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/loewylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2023\/03\/Untitled-design-11.png” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_text_color=”#000000″ position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n
Andrew Rossetti,\u00a0PhD, LCAT, MT-BC\u00a0directs the multi-site music therapy oncology programs. His practice extends to the infusion suite, surgery, and the neonatal intensive care unit. Andrew specializes in treating emotional trauma and its sequelae. Having developed several music therapy programs in hospitals in the US and Europe, he has lectured extensively there, in South America, and Asia. He completed his doctorate at the University of Jyvaskyla.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_team_member name=”Wendy Neal MD” position=”Co-Investigator” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/loewylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2024\/03\/DrNeal-Head-shot-150×150.jpg” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_text_color=”#000000″ position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#000000″ custom_padding=”||0px|||”]<\/p>\n
Wendy Neal, MD, currently serves as Interim Chief of the Division of Adolescent Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) and the Medical Director of the Adolescent Health Center. Dr. Neal received her medical and master’s degrees from Tulane University School of Medicine and Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She completed her Pediatric Residency and Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center. With<\/span>\u00a0a wealth of leadership experience in clinical and academic medicine,\u00a0 Dr. Neal has devoted her career to enhancing access to care and developing community service programs for adolescents and young adults.\u00a0 She has a strong track record in clinical research, securing institutional and federal grants, and contributing to the Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine’s national program planning committee. Additionally, Dr. Neal has been instrumental in delivering ACGME-mandated content and providing individualized instruction to pediatric residents and adolescent medicine fellows.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
[\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Kristen Stewart MA, LCAT, MT-BC” position=”Music Therapist” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/loewylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2023\/03\/Untitled-design-15.png” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_text_color=”#000000″ position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#000000″ custom_margin=”50px||50px||false|false”]<\/p>\n
Kristen Stewart oversees the Department of Music Therapy and is a PhD candidate at Temple University. She holds two post-graduate certifications in trauma treatment, is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and has advanced training in NICU and Neurologic Music Therapy.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Preanka Singh MPH” position=”Research Coordinator II” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/loewylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2024\/09\/Untitled-design-5.png” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_text_color=”#000000″ position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#000000″ hover_enabled=”0″ title_text=”Untitled design (5)” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n
Preanka<\/span>\u00a0Kaur Singh, Research Coordinator II MPH earned a Master of Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, where they also completed a certificate in Public Health Research Methods through the Department of Population and Family Health. With approximately five years of experience, they have worked on a clinical research study at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, exploring the effects of environmental exposures on child health and development.\u00a0<\/span>Preanka<\/span>\u00a0is particularly interested in developing culturally appropriate therapeutic interventions to address intergenerational trauma within historically marginalized communities.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_team_member name=”Joyce Fogel MD” position=”Co-Investigator” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/loewylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-17.png” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_text_color=”#000000″ position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#000000″ custom_margin=”||34px||false|false”]<\/p>\n
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Dr. Joyce Fogel is a clinical professor Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine\u00a0<\/span>Senior Director of Educations for Geriatrics Mount Sinai Beth Israel. She has been involved in academic and clinical geriatrics throughout her career-including teaching medical students,
residents and fellows. Her interests include Geriatric assessment, dementia, delirium,
polypharmacy and community outreach and education. She has presented locally and nationally\u00a0<\/span>on various Geriatric topics. Dr. Fogel maintains an outpatient practice at\u00a0<\/span>the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai Downtown Union Square.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n[\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Tammy Takaishi, M.Ed., MA, MT-BC” position=”Music Therapist” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/loewylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2024\/07\/thumbnail_image1-150×150.jpg” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_text_color=”#000000″ position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#000000″ custom_margin=”50px||50px|||”]<\/p>\n
Tammy Takaishi, M.Ed., MA, MT-BC is a Board Certified-Music Therapist with a Master of Arts in Music Therapy from Montclair State University. She has worked in a variety of settings from school-based, home health, to hospice. Ms. Takaishi also holds a Master’s from the University of Missouri-Columbia where she specialized in strings education. Ms. Takaishi is an advocate for the music therapy field having served as a delegate for the SWAMTA region of AMTA for two years, and as a member of the Texas State Task Force for State Licensure for a decade prior to moving back to the East Coast. In her free time, she enjoys running and hosting her creative arts podcast, Creative Peacemeal, which focuses on authentic stories in the arts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_team_member][et_pb_team_member name=”Stephan Quentzel MD, JD, MA” position=”Psychiatrist” image_url=”https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/loewylab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/476\/2023\/03\/Untitled-design-8-1.png” _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_text_color=”#000000″ position_font=”|700|||||||” position_text_color=”#000000″]<\/p>\n
Stephan Quentzel, MD, JD, MA is a graduate of integrated dual residencies in family medicine and psychiatry. An assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine, he teaches psychiatrists and psychiatry residents to collaborate with their primary care colleagues to pursue best practices in approaches to psychiatry.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”142.4px” custom_margin=”74px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”0px||0px|||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.0″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n
Disclaimer:\u00a0The opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not represent the views of the National Endowment for the Arts Office of Research & Analysis or the National Endowment for the Arts. The National Endowment for the Arts does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information included in this material and is not responsible for any consequences of its use.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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