Wendy L. Magee PhD is Professor of Music Therapy at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, where she also co-ordinates the PhD program in Music Therapy. With a distinguished career spanning over 37 years, she worked as a clinician, researcher, manager and trainer in neurological rehabilitation across Australia, England and Ireland before moving to the US in 2011. Her scholarship, including a Cochrane Review, focuses on music therapy for individuals with acquired brain injury and neurological illness, spanning both paediatric and adult populations, as well as music technology in therapeutic contexts. She is deeply committed to knowledge translation, aiming to maximise meaningful, real-world outcomes for patients, families and interdisciplinary teams. Pioneering contributions to the field of Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) have earned recognition including the World Federation of Music Therapy Research Award (2023) and Temple University’s Paul W. Eberman Faculty Research Award (2021). She is an active member of the International Brain Injury Association’s DoC Special Interest Group and leads collaborative research projects across Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia. Her impactful work has received funding from major institutions including: - the Leverhulme Foundation (UK) - the American Music Therapy Association’s Flagler Fultz Research Award - the GRAMMY Museum grant for paediatric consciousness research A former Chair of the British Society for Music Therapy, she currently serves on the Board of the International Association of Music and Medicine and several editorial boards.