Music therapy in eating disorder treatment

Associate Professor Annie Heiderscheit is the Director of Music Therapy at Augsburg University, Minnesota. She has almost 20 years of teaching experience and nearly 30 years of clinical experience as a board-certified music therapist. She has worked in a wide variety of clinical settings including hospitals, eating disorder and addictions treatment programs and actively conducts research in these areas. Her various research projects have garnered nearly $1.75 million in grant funding.

Annie has authored over 20 book chapters on music therapy in eating disorder treatment and other topics. She is the editor of The Creative Arts Therapies in Eating Disorder Treatment and co-authored Introduction to Music Therapy Practice with Dr. Nancy Jackson.

Dr. Heiderscheit serves on the editorial review boards of various peer-reviewed journals including Music Therapy Perspectives, Music and Medicine, and Creative Arts Therapy in China: Research & Practice, and regularly reviews articles for various peer-reviewed journals. She is also the Chair of the Publications Commission of the World Federation of Music Therapy, the editor of Music Therapy Today and is the Vice President of Communications for the International Association of Music and Medicine (IAMM).