Senior Staff of the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function have an average of 20 years as clinical music therapy supervisors. The IMNF has been an approved training site for the American Association for Music Therapy since 1981. It has institutional affiliations with a number of different schools and universities, including:

  • Aalborg University, Denmark

  • Bergen University, Bergen, Norway

  • Oslo University, Oslo, Norway

  • Hong Kong University, Hong Kong

  • Ehwa Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea

  • Universitat der Kunste Berlin, Germany

  • New School for Social Research, Manhattan, New York

  • New York University, New York

  • Montclair State University, New Jersey

  • University of Georgia, Georgia

  • Berklee College of Music, Massachusetts

  • Molloy College, New York
  • Drexel University, Pennsylvania

  • Michigan State University, Michigan

  • Seitoku University, Japan

  • Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

  • Alfred Adler Institute, Manhattan

  • Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany

  • Antioch University, Santa Barbara, California

  • Quebec University, Montreal, Canada

  • Tokyo International College of Music Therapy, Tokyo

  • Caldwell College, Caldwell, New Jersey

  • Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • School of Visual Arts, Manhattan

  • Capilano College, Vancouver, Canada

  • Florida State University, Florida

  • Lesley University, Massachusetts

  • University of Louisville, Kentucky

  • Anna Maria College, Massachusetts

  • SUNY, New Paltz, New York

  • Immaculata University, Pennsylvania

  • Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, Greece

  • University for Professional Education, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Since 1995, an international clinical training program has been offered for graduate music therapy and post-graduate students from university programs in Germany, Korea, Japan, Spain and Denmark. Dr. Tomaino is on the faculty of the New York State Geriatric Education Center, which highlights music therapy as part of its core program and its training modules on long term care and geriatric rehabilitation. 

The team leads in-service training courses on the various uses of music therapy for in-house staff as well as receiving visits from students and professionals from all over the world who want to learn more about the music therapy program at BAFHS. Each member of the music therapy team regularly presents papers on their clinical work and research and national and international conferences.

Benedikte Scheiby has developed an advanced supervision training program that offers invidual supervision services for post-graduate music therapists.