Lisa Gallagher, PhD, MT-BC received her Bachelors of Music in Music Therapy from Ohio University, her Masters of the Arts in Counseling and Human Development from Walsh University, and her PhD in Health Psychology from Northcentral University. She is a music therapist at Cleveland Clinic, she is the Research Program Manager there for the Arts & Medicine Department, and she has a secondary appointment with the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation program. She is a clinical music therapist, researcher, and author; and she is a frequent presenter at the local, national, and international level. She also is Adjunct Faculty at Alverno College, Baldwin Wallace University, and Ohio University; as well as spending one semester teaching at Augsburg University. Lisa has written several book chapters; has been a Guest Editor for Progress in Palliative Care; and has published her research in several peer-reviewed journals. Lisa is the GLR Research Committee Co-Chair, Treasurer of the Breast Cancer Fund of Ohio Board of Directors, a former Chair of the Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) Board of Directors, and a Past President of the Great Lakes Region of the American Music Therapist Association (GLR of AMTA). She is the recipient of the Ohio University Achievement in Music Award, the Association of Ohio Music Therapists Past President’s Club Award, the GLR of AMTA Scholarly Activity Award, and the Blair L. Sadler International Healing Arts Award.

Jennifer Fiore Ph.D., MT-BC, NMT is an Associate Professor of Music Therapy at Western Michigan University. She earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate from the University of Kansas. She teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has chaired undergraduate honors thesis committees and served on and chaired graduate thesis and capstone committees. Jennifer has over 11 years of clinical experience within hospice working with both pediatric and adult hospice and palliative care patients, bereavement camps, oncology, pediatric medical, and older adults. She has extensive experience supervising music therapy students’ clinical work at the undergraduate, internship, and graduate levels. Jennifer is a consistent presenter at the local, regional, and national levels. She is currently the GLR co-representative to the AMTA Research Committee and previously chaired the AMTA’s Standards of Clinical Practice Committee. Her research interests include hospice and palliative care, oncology, and stress and coping, and she has published in the Journal of Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, Arts in Psychotherapy, and OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying. She has also served as a reviewer for The Journal of Music Therapy, The Arts in Psychotherapy, Musicae Scientiae, and OMEGA: Journal of Death and Dying.