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Music as Medicine

FREE & RECORDED. Times listed are Pacific Time.

Music helps us remember, connect, and feel - but it can also help us heal. Learn how and why music therapy encounters can support wide-ranging healthcare goals, from improving motor functioning and physiological outcomes to enhancing psychosocial wellbeing. Kerry will share current research from the Johns Hopkins Center for Music and Medicine, emphasizing the many ways you can incorporate music into your daily self-care practices and community engagement. No prior music experience required! 

Kerry Devlin, MMT, LPMT, MT-BC, is senior music therapist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Music & Medicine. She teaches courses centered on clinical music therapy practice at Shenandoah University, and is a PhD researcher in the Doctoral Program in Music Therapy at Aalborg University. As a disabled clinician, Kerry understands the unique experience of moving through the health care system as both a patient and a provider. She is passionate about disability justice and affirming the lived experience of therapy participants through co-constructed music experiences.