WHO WE ARE
Our Founders
Our Governing Board
Our MMM Team
Chris Freking
Media Coordinator
Christopher Calvin Freking is a third-year Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology student at UCLA. He is very passionate about the power of music and its effect on the mind, having been a self-taught guitarist since the age of 12 and an avid listener of music of many genres and cultures. On campus, he is the Internship Coordinator for the Pilipino Recruitment & Enrichment Program. He volunteers at Cedars-Sinai Hospital and multiple COVID relief organizations. In the future, he wishes to work in the medical field while also remaining active and engaged in the relationship between his cultural upbringing and music.
Katie Butler
Fundraising Coordinator
Katie is a third-year Psychobiology major and prospective Music Industry minor at UCLA. She is passionate about music healing and is honored to be a part of MMM's new public education project with leaders in the field of music cognition. She is working for the Institute for Music and Brain Science's 2020 revisioning under the mentorship of Dr. Mark Tramo. She is also a research and evaluation intern for Jazz Hands for Autism based in Los Angeles. In her free time, she teaches music and vocal performance with YOUTHphonics A Cappella at Fairfax High School in addition to writing music of her own and collaborating with college artists nationally as a campus representative for Quadio Media. She continues to be inspired by the MMM community and hopes to use this inspiration in her continuation of educational and professional aspirations.
Henry Chen
Research Coordinator
Henry is a 3rd-year at UCLA majoring in Biology with a minor in Global Health. He is very enthusiastic about music, having played the piano for over 14 years, and the violin for 8 years. At UCLA, he is a director for Asian American Tutorial Project club, and a member of the 2019-2020 Asian Greek Council. He aspires to be involved in the medical field as a physician or surgeon in the future, and hopes to give back to his community.
Our Ambassador Board
Our Advisory Board
Daniel Slate
JD. Attorney at Law Buchalter Nemer
David Reuben
MD, Chief Geriatric Medicine Director UCLA Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Professor Department of Medicine
Gary Schneider
J.D. Malpractice Attorney
Jeff Bronstein
MD, Ph.D. Professor Molecular Toxicology, Neurology Member Brain Research Institute, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Studies, Neuroengineering Training Program
Kathy Shenassa
Ph.D. Scientific Program Coordinator UCLA Center for the Study of Parkinson's Disease, Integrative Center for Neural Repair, UCLA Brain Research Institute
Linda Holloway
Founding Patron Services Manager, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Mark Iacobani
Professor Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences Professor in Residence, The Semel Institute Member
Brain Research Institute, Neuroscience GPB Home Area
Marie-Francoise Chesselet
MD, Ph. D. Chair, and Distinguished Professor Neurobiology Professor, Neurology Member
Brain Research Institute, CTSI, Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Studies, Neuroengineering Training Program, Neuroscience GPB Home Area
Marina Day
Artist and Psychotherapist
Mark Tramo
MD Ph.D. Director
The Institute for Music & Brain Science,
Co-Director, University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative, Associate Clinical Professor Neurology UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Adjunct Ethnomusicology Professor
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Mary Mittelman
Professor and Researcher
NYU School of Medicine Columbia School of Public Health
Michael Thaut
Ph.D. Professor, University of Toronto
Department of Music
Director, University of Toronto Music and Health Sciences Research Collaboratory and Graduate Programs
Trudy Goodman
Founding & Guiding Teacher at InsightLA
Zaldy Tan
MD, MPH, FACP
Director, Cedars-Sinai Health System / Memory and Aging Program
Medical Director, Jona Goldrich Center for Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders
Carmen & Louis Warschaw Endowed Chair in Neurology
Professor of Neurology and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center