Board of Directors

John Beltzer • CEO & Founder •  Songs of Love Foundation
Richard Berardi • Vice President •  MRB Records/reachHigher.org
Tony Carrion • Founder •  Market-Harmonics.org
Scott Curran • President •  The Curran Group
Geri Fessler*

Orchestra Leaders
Leon and Toby Cooperman
Michelle Lund

Inaugural QR Code Campaign Committee
Ashley Byers BMT, MT-BC • Board-Certified Music Therapist •  Child Life Department •  Golisano Children’s Hospital •  Lee Health
Megan Daly, CCLS • Child Life Supervisor •  Medical City Children’s Hospital
Jennifer Fieten, MA, CCLS • Founding Clinical Implementation Advisor  Hospital QR Code Pilot Lead Certified Child Life Specialist Inpatient Pediatrics, Burn Step-Down, PICU Cook County Health
Kristal R. Neal, CCLS • Child Life CoordinatorSaint Peter’s University Hospital

In Memorium
Geri Fessler*
Bob McGrath • Sesame Street
Frank Vallelonga

Honorary Chairpersons (In Memorium)
Moshe & Ester Beltzer

Memory Initiative Advisory Panel
Rachel Blumberg • President and Chief Executive OfficerSinai Residences
Barbara Becker Bruno • Assistant Vice President of Older Adult ServicesCommonpoint
Jaime Cooperman • DirectorCommonpoint
Ruth Katz • PresidentAssociation For Jewish Aging Services

AHRC Advisory Panel
Johanna Silverio* Community Support SupervisorAHRC NYC

* Johanna actually sang on a Song of Love back in 1997 with her high school.

Advisory Board

Tony Asher
Laura Avers — MT-BC, Board Certified Music Therapist
Meny Beriro — Playwright/Educator
Dan Bowling, Ph.D. — Directs the Music, Brain, and Health Lab at Stanford Psychiatry’s Division of Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences – Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford School of Medicine
Donna Britton — President, Shadow Mountain Publishing, L.L.C.
Pei Chen, MD — Professor of Medicine, Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship, Staff Physician, San Francisco VA Medical Practice
Ken Dashow — Q104 FM
Eric Diton
Matthew Ferri
Lowell Frey
Annie Gilbert
Shelly Goldman
Barbara Hesser — Director Music Therapy Program, New York University
Lynn Hoffman — Lynn Hoffman Entertainment/Host, Private Sessions, VH1 Classic
Linda Edell Howard — Partner, Adams and Reese LLP
Charles Keller, MD — Scientific Director, Children’s Cancer Therapy Development Institute
Meghan D. Kelly, MS, CCLS — Director, Child Life Program & Carl Sagan Discovery Program The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore
Eddie Kilgallon — Band Leader, Montgomery Gentry
Will Lee — David Letterman Band & The Fab Faux
Bryan Lesseraux
Jonah Lipsky — Bridging the Music
Joanne Loewy, PhD — Director Pediatric Music Therapy Program, Beth Israel Medical Center
Ben Mevorach
Stephen Murphy — Chernoff Diamond
Karen Nisenson — MM Juilliard School, MA New York University, Music Therapy
Larry Perfetti, Ed.D. — Kier’s Kidz
Steve Rolnik
Andrew Rosengard
Mike Rosenman
Bruce Rothbard
Alan Seiler
Richard Shore, MD — Director of Pediatric Oncology, Toledo Children’s Hospital
Mitch Siegal, D.C. — Siegal Chiropractic Clinic
Ed Sirlin
Marc Solomon
Mark Jude Tramo, MD., PhD — Harvard Medical School
Nick Vallelonga
Kenneth Womack, PhD — Dean, Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities & Social Sciences; Professor of English; World Renowned Authority on the Beatles