Friday, April 25 at 2:15 p.m.
Ruebush Hall, Room 128
Livestreamed via Zoom
Music therapy holds promise as an adjunctive treatment for patients with acute brain injury (ABI) and disorders of consciousness (DoC), but its applications in a neurocritical care context have not been fully explored. In this keynote, Kerry will talk about her experiences collaborating with a team of neurointensivists at Johns Hopkins Hospital to better understand the physiologic and psychosocial impacts of music therapy in neurocritical care for patients and their family members. Kerry will share stories about working in this unique clinical environment, preliminary physiologic data from a retrospective review, and describe emerging practice guidelines developed by her team centered on safe delivery of live music for patients in neurocritical care.
Kerry Devlin, PhD, LPMT, MT-BC (she/her) is senior music therapist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Music & Medicine, where she co-constructs music therapy encounters and research projects in adult neurocritical care, adult movement disorders, pediatric anesthesiology and critical care. Kerry's research has been published in Music Therapy Perspectives, The Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, and Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, and she recently co-edited the book Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions in Neurology: Perspectives on Research and Practice (2024) published by Springer. 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 amplifying the lived experiences of therapy participants through co-designed and co-authored research.