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Lisa M. Gallagher, PhD, LPMT, MT-BC (she/her/hers)

Research Program Manager/Music Therapist
Cleveland Clinic
North Olmsted, Ohio, United States

Lisa Gallagher, PhD, LPMT, MT-BC received her Bachelor 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 Psychology with an emphasis in Health Psychology from Northcentral University. Lisa is the founder of the music therapy program at Cleveland Clinic (Ohio), and she is the Research Program Manager there for the Arts & Medicine Department. She is Adjunct Faculty at the Cleveland Music Therapy Consortium (Baldwin Wallace University and College of Wooster), Augsburg University, and Ohio University. She is a clinical music therapist, researcher, and author; and she is a frequent presenter at local, national, and international levels. She has written several book chapters and has published her research in several peer-reviewed journals. She and her team received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and she is a member of the team who received the 2023 Arthur Flagler Fultz Research Award from the American Music Therapy Association. Lisa is the Chair 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 is a Past President of the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of AMTA. She is an inductee into the Ohio State Fair Hall of Fame, is the recipient of the Ohio University Alumni Association 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.

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