WHO WE ARE
Our Founders
Our Governing Board
Our MMM Team
Chris Freking
Administrative Assistant
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.
Janelle Quirante
Administrative Assistant
Janelle Quirante is a third-year psychology major at UCLA. Janelle's passions range very wide from training her puppy, Kobe, to building computers to modifying her car. She comes from a long line of healthcare workers, from nurses to surgeons, all who have helped shape her passion for psychology and the brain. On campus, she is an active member of Samahang Pilipino, a cultural club representing Filipinos. Janelle is an avid listener of music and appreciates a wide range of genres, even the music her parents grew up listening to! Janelle aspires to attend graduate school and earn a degree in Nursing, hoping to begin a career as a psychiatric nurse! For now, though, Janelle just enjoys giving back to her local community.
Henry Chen
Administrative Assistant
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.
Sam Baltejar
Administrative Assistant
Sam Beltejar is a second-year biochemistry major at UCLA. She is a classically trained violinist who has been playing for over six years. She is also the 2021-2022 Fundraising Director of Alpha Epsilon Delta, a pre-health fraternity and honor society. Because she is a violinist and an aspiring doctor, she loves the intersection of music and healing. Outside of school and music, she is a fencer and an avid language learner who is trying
to learn French and Italian. In the future, she hopes to go to medical school and possibly specialize in cardiology while keeping her passions of music and fencing alive.
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