When: Sep 26-27, 2026
Where: virtual
Registration is available through this link:
https://musictherapy.member365.ca/public/event/details/43a9dc385c5671dad30e81fb50454a7469e9cf6d/1
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We are excited to announce our keynote speakers for this year:
Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, PhD, RP, MTA
Elizabeth Mitchell, PhD, RP, MTA, is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Bachelor of Music Therapy Program at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. She has extensive clinical experience working in mental health treatment settings. Liz is passionate about fostering music therapy practices that are relational, community-oriented, music-centered, and anti-oppressive.
Dr. Helen Shoemark, PhD, RMT
Helen Shoemark is Professor Emerita and most recently Director of Music Therapy at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Her current research is in the application of team science in the systematic development of creative arts therapies programs in hospitals. She is best known for her work in person-centred interventions to develop parental self-efficacy and pre-vocal expressive communication in hospitalized infants. As an author she has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, 28 book chapters and the edited book Music Therapy in the Neonatal Care: Influences of Culture (Barcelona publisher, 2020) with colleague Mark Ettenberger. She has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of Music Therapy, and editor of the Australian Journal of Music Therapy, and President of the Australian Music Therapy Association. Prof. Shoemark has more than 40 years’ experience in the profession, pioneering NICU music therapy practice in Australia at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and research at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. In 2019 the Australian Music Therapy Association named an award in her honor for the best research presentation at their annual national conference.
Full conference schedule and program can be found here.
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