Bio

Corene P. Thaut is a special assistant professor of music therapy in the Department of Music Theatre and Dance at Colorado State University. She has also been a research associate at The Center for Biomedical Research in Music since 1997. She worked as a Neurologic Music Therapist at the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine at Emory University Medical School in Atlanta from 1992-1995 and at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins from 1997-2003. Her clinical experience has included work with stroke, Parkinson’s Disease, traumatic brain injury, multiple schlerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, and autism.  She has served on the exam committee of the National Certification Board for Music Therapy (CBMT) as both a member and Committee Chair from 2001-2006, and is currently an elected member of the National Board of Directors (8 National Directors) for CBMT.  She has also served as President and Vice President of the Midwestern Region of American Music Therapy Association.   She has several research publications and three recent book chapters to her credit:  <em>Music Therapy in Pediatric Healthcare: Research and Evidence Based Practice</em> (AMTA), <em>An Introduction to Music Therapy</e> (Davis, Gfeller, Thaut, 2008) and <em>The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology</em> (Oxford University Press, 2009).