J. Matt McCrary

physiologic effects of playing and listening to music
specific projects focus on the management of fatigue in high-level musicians, and the impact of playing and listening to music on the autonomic nervous system and health-related quality of life
aims:

to inform healthier and more productive practice planning in high-level musicians
to determine how playing and listening to music can be used to reduce non-communicable disease risk (e.g. cancer; heart disease) in the general population

2019-21 - Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Music Physiology and Musician's Medicine (Hannover, Germany)
2015-19 - Clinical Research Officer, IN FOCUS Research Group at UNSW Sydney (Australia)(research focus: Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy; PIs Prof. David Goldstein & Dr. Susanna Park)
2013-17 - PhD student in the Elite Music Performance Laboratory at the University of Sydney (Australia)(Supervisor - A/Prof Bronwen Ackermann)
2013 - Research Assistant, STRIIDE-PD Research Group at Duke University Medical Center (USA)(research focus: exercise interventions for patients at risk of type II diabetes; PI Prof William Kraus)
2012 - Contract musician at Disneyland Resort (Los Angeles, USA)
2007-12 - Dual-Bachelor's program at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance (BFA Jazz Studies - Percussion Performance) and School of Kinesiology (BSc Movement Science)(USA)

2019-21 - Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany)
2018-present - Board of Directors, Performing Arts Medical Association (USA)
2018 - Best Oral Presentation, Translational Cancer Research Network Symposium (Australia)
2016 - Alice G. Brandfonbrener Young Investigator Award, Performing Arts Medical Association (USA)
2013-14 - Fulbright Postgraduate Research Award, Australian-American Fulbright Commission (USA/Australia)
2008-12 - Edwin & Mary Meader Jazz Scholarship, University of Michigan (USA)

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