Our Team
![Jefferey Dusek](https://ssihi.uci.edu/files/2024/01/jeff-dusek-blue-424x424-v1-fb7658de3ef95253-212x212.jpg)
![Shaista Malik](https://ssihi.uci.edu/files/2023/01/Shaista-Malik-2023-424x424-1-212x212.jpg)
![music_therapy_faculty_JoanneLoewy](https://ssihi.uci.edu/files/2024/05/music_therapy_faculty_JoanneLoewy-212x212.jpeg)
Full Professor at Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai | Editor -in-Chief of Music and Medicine peer-reviewed journal
![Manoj Bhasin](https://ssihi.uci.edu/files/2024/05/Manoj-Bhasin-4a28263f45e763ad.jpg)
Acting Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine | Acting Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Bioinformatics, Emory University School of Medicine | Director, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta | Director, Single Cell Biology Program at Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Co-investigators:
![Sam Rodgers-Melnick](https://ssihi.uci.edu/files/2024/05/SRM-212x212.jpg)
Integrative Health Research & Data Specialist, Music Therapist, University Hospitals
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Director of Cancer Music Therapy, Mount Sinai Health System, NYC | Secretary of the International Association for Music and Medicine (IAMM)
![Kristen Stewart photo](https://ssihi.uci.edu/files/2024/05/Kristen-Stewart-photo-212x212.png)
PhD Candidate at Temple University | Assistant Director of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, NYC
Director of the Autonomic Nervous System Program, University Hospitals | Medical Director of the Music and Medicine Program in the Neurological Institute, University Hospitals | Associate Professor of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University
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Board-certified music therapist | Lauren Rich Fine Endowed Director of Expressive Therapies, University Hospitals Connor Whole Health
![Kalpna Gupta](https://ssihi.uci.edu/files/2024/05/210125_Gupta_1508_sz-1024x677-1-212x212.jpg)
Professor of Medicine, UCI School of Medicine
![Georgia Christodoulou](https://ssihi.uci.edu/files/2022/10/Georgia-Christodoulou-212x212.jpg)
Research Administrator, UCI Susan Samueli Inetgrative Health Insitute
External Advisory Board:
- Deforia Lane, PhD (CWRU): 30+ year MT lead at UH/CWRU (retired)
- Heather Tick, MD (University of Washington): Pain physician
- Sarah Lazar, PhD (Mass General Hospital): Neuroimaging expert
- Lakiea Bailey, PhD (Sickle Cell Consortium): Patient advocacy organization
- Carolyn Rowley, PhD (Cayenne Wellness Center): Sickle cell education, support, and advocacy
Collaborators:
AudioAnalgesiA – Music-Based Interventions & Pain
Music & Dementia Research Network