Carlene Brown

Carlene J. Brown, Ph.D., MT-BC, MTL is Chair and Professor of Music at Seattle Pacific University and the Director of the SPU Music Therapy Program, the first and only music therapy degree program in the state of Washington. She has been a musician, music educator, board-certified music therapist, and arts manager in Boston and in Seattle. She is currently on a research team at the UW in the Department of Rehabilitation studying music and pain management. Brown presented before the 2023 Sound Health Initiative workshop on “Music as Medicine: The Science and Clinical Practice”.