Frank Wagner's Music Therapy Resume (pdf)
Download2000 - 2002
NORDOFF-ROBBINS CENTER FOR MUSIC THERAPY-New York
University-Advanced Certification. (NRMT).
1994 - 1997
New York University-Masters of Arts.
1989 - 1994
The City College of New York-Bachelor of Arts.
Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude.
1986 - 1987
Hofstra University-Independent courses in music education.
1980 - 1986
Berklee College of Music-Bachelor of Music.
July 1997 - Present
WOODHULL HOSPITAL, BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Creative Arts Therapist Supervisor) music therapist for inpatient psychiatry, Medically Managed Detox unit and Chemical Dependency outpatient units. Work with ages 17-80 facilitating multiple Creative Arts Therapy groups. Supervise field work internship students and the Woodhull Creative Arts Therapy staff.
April 1997 - July 1997
New York City, Board of Education
Developed and coordinated music therapy program at the Children First Program in Special Education Department at P.S. 309 and P.S. 72 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
March 1997 - June 1997
THE OTHER PLACE AT GODDARD RIVERSIDE
Ran music therapy groups for mentally-ill homeless adults and provided individual therapy sessions.
January 1996 - June 1997
BALTIC STREET PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
Worked in adult outpatient psychiatric treatment setting. Developed and led therapy groups; including drawing images to music.
September 1995 - January 1996
NORDOFF-ROBBINS MUSIC THERAPY CLINIC
Worked with autistic and disabled children. As primary therapist and co-therapist, coordinated and conducted small group therapy sessions.
2020
The University of the State of New York Education Department Office of the Professions
2005 - Present
NYSUT New York State United Teachers (AFL-CIO) “Artist Access” Committee Woodhull Hospital
2019
National Music Therapy Registry
1997 - 2005
Health and Hospitals Corporation DC 37 AFSCME
1996 - 2005
American Music Therapy Association
1996 - 2000
Brooklyn Mental Health Council
1996 - 2005
New York University Alumni Association
1994 - 2005
Phi Beta Kappa Association
1990 - 2005
City College of New York Alumni Association
1982 - 2004
Berklee College of Music Alumni Association
1970 - 2005
American Federation of Musicians, Local 802
April 2019
First Annual Health & Hospitals System Wide Creative Arts Therapy Conference. “Inventions & New Dimensions: Intermodal Approaches Using Movement and Music Therapies”.
November 2016
Expressive Arts Therapy Summit NYC. Inventions & New Dimensions: Intermodal Approaches Using Movement & Music Therapies.
December 2007
“Emotional Well Being through Music Therapy”. Guest lecturer for the Woodhull Outpatient Psychiatry Dept.
November 2005
7th. Annual AMTA Conference. Experience the Power Of Music Therapy. Orlando, Florida.
How Music Therapy is Used in an Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, Using Live Music for an Underwater Childbirth, Why a Music Therapist Should Be Interested in the Nature of the Modes.
May 2004
Arts with the Disabled Association Hong Kong First Creative Arts Therapy Conference in Hong, Kong. Delivered Key-Note Speech and ran a series of 4 day music therapy
workshops in Hong Kong, China.
May 2004
Honolulu Calvary By the Sea, Sounding Joy Music Therapy, Inc. Presentation in Hawaii on music therapy in special education.
September 2003
“HEALING WITH GUIDED IMAGERY”. A case study: Surviving with stage four-lung cancer. Woodhull Hospital Creative Arts Therapy Dept. presentation.
February 2003
“Feeling and Using the Blues to Heal”. Workshop/Guest lecturer. St. Luke’s Hospital, N.Y., N.Y.
February 2003
An Introduction To Music Therapy Techniques in Inpatient and Outpatient settings.
Woodhull Hospital Grand Rounds/Psychiatry.
October 2002
4Th Annual AMTA Conference. “Music Therapy on My Mind”. Atlanta Georgia. “Auditory Stimulation
and Alternative Sounds In Music Therapy”.
March 2002
American Music Therapy Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. Meredith, New Hampshire. “Auditory Stimulation and Alternative Sounds In Music Therapy”.
April 2002
American Music Therapy Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. Saratoga, New York. “Auditory Stimulation and Alternative Sounds in Music Therapy”.
October 2001
A Music Therapy Odyssey. 3rd. annual AMTA conference. Pasadena, California. “Auditory Stimulation and Alternative Sounds in Music Therapy”. “Didactic Workshop in how to Improvise Using the Major Diatonic Modes”. CMTE course.
September 2001
NYCCAT- The New York Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies. “A Return from Burnout: Nurturing the Self Through Art and Music Therapy”.
February 2001
Valentine Café Talent Show. Coordinated performances for inpatients and outpatients. Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
November 2000
50 Years of Music Therapy- Second Annual American Music Therapy Association Conference St. Louis, Missouri. “What Every Music Therapist Should Know-How To Improvise in the Modes”.
October 2000
National Artists for Mental Health-“Recovery Through the Arts”. South Beach Psychiatric Center Baltic Street Service Presentation “Drawing Images Through Music”. Brooklyn, N.Y.
September 2000
NYCCAT-“The New York Coalition of Creative Art Therapies”. A Return from Burnout: “Nurturing the Self Through Art and Music Therapy”.
April 2000
Nordoff-Robbins Center For Music Therapy. New York University, School of Education, Dept. of Music and Performing Arts Professions. “The Modes”.
April 2000
Music Therapy: Sound Health for the New Millennium. Rochester, N.Y.
“Drawing Images Through Music”.
March 2000
The Enduring Creative Arts Therapies: Surviving The Passage of Time. Albany, N.Y. “Drawing Images Through Music”.
November 1999
The Ninth World Congress of Music Therapy Association. Washington, D.C. “Primary Colours Master Class, integrated with a presentation of The Major Diatonic Modes”.
September 1999
“Relaxation Through Guided Imagery”. Woodhull Hospital Creative Arts
Therapy Dept. presentation. Brooklyn, N.Y.
March 1998
“Drawing Images Through Music”. Woodhull Hospital Creative Arts
Therapy Dept. presentation. Brooklyn, N.Y.
September 1997
An Overview of Music Therapy. Grand Rounds/Dept. of Psychiatry educational lectures. Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
September 2014 - January 2018
Pratt Institute. Visiting professor teaching music therapy principals to graduate art therapy students.
September 2013 - September 2015
Molloy College Music Therapy Graduate Program. Taught individual musical therapy principals for independent grad studies
September 2007 - January 2017
Queensborough Community College City College of New York. Adjunct Lecturer. Teach introduction to music therapy, jazz theory and care for caregivers.
September 2010 - January 2014
College Now. Taught senior high school students music theory principals coordinating with Queensborough Community College.
April 2018
Frank Wagner’s “Floating Holiday”. ME11Enterprises
December 2015
“Affordable Health Insurance for Artists”. “Artist Access” program. Musicians
Local 802, Allegro Publications article.
September 2003
“More Themes for Therapy”. From the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University. 2003 by Carl Fisher, LLC.
June 2003
“Rising Low”-a film by Mike Gordon. A documentary on healing through vibrations.
Cactus Unlimited Productions.
November 1999
“What Every Music Therapist Needs To Know: How to Improvise in the Modes and Pentatonics”
Copyright @1999 by Frank Wagner
May 1999
Primary Colours-“Moods of the Modes” Jazzheads Records.
March 1999
Primary Colours- “Past-Present-Future” 1998 Blue Chip CD award. Jazzheads Records.
January 2020
General Compliance/HIPPA Training. NYC Health & Hospitals
January 2020
Workplace Violence Prevention Training. NYC Health & Hospitals
January 2020
Sexual Harassment Training Cycle 2. NYC Health & Hospitals
May 2019
The Culture of Use, Misuse, and Dependence. Integrative Approaches to Biopsychosocial Treatment. The Louis Armstrong Center For Music and Medicine Mount Sanai Beth Israel
May 2019
Introduction To Your LGBTQ Co-Workers-NYC Health & Hospitals
May 2019
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identification. NYC Health & Hospitals
April 2019
Human Trafficking: Identification and Management of Suspected Victims. NYC Health & Hospitals
April 2019
Collaborative Arts Therapy Approaches In Community Mental health- NYU Steinhardt
Education building
March 2019
Keeping In Time With Groove: An Experiential Exploration Of Groove In Music Therapy.
Molloy College
March 2019
Transforming Care and Wellness Across Our Health System. NYC Health & Hospitals
November 2019
Transforming Trauma Health Centered Creative Arts Therapies. NYU Langone
October 2018
Protection of People with Special Needs Act. Health & Hospitals
August 2017
Emotional Intelligence: A Smart Approach To Overcoming Anxiety. VYNE Education
August 2017
Introduction to Debriefing. NYC Health & Hospitals
August 2015
Preventing and Managing Crisis Situations. Psychiatry dept. Woodhull Hospital, Bklyn NY
August 2015
Borderline Personality Disorder- Cross County Education
August 2015
Supervisor Development Program. NYC Health & Hospitals
August 2015
HIV Screening For Adolescents. NYC Health & Hospitals
August 2015
OCC General Compliance/Fraud, Waste and Abuse Training for Health Care Professionals.
NYC Health & Hospitals
July 2015
Social media Best Practices For HHC Employees
April 2015
HIV Screening- NYS HIV Confidentiality Law. NYC Health & Hospitals
July 2014
HIPPA Privacy and Security- General Workforce module. NYC Health & Hospitals
June 2013
Team Stepps. NYC Health & Hospitals
November 2012
Non-Violent crisis Intervention Training. NYC Health & Hospitals
October 2012
HIV Screening. NYC Health & Hospitals
August 2011
Strategies and tools To Address Disruptive Behavior that Undermine A Culture of safety.
NYC Health & Hospitals
August 2011
Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Training. NYC Health & Hospitals
February 2011
Labor Relations Training. NYC Health & Hospitals
July 2010
Cultural Competence: Providing Cultural Competent Care. NYC Health & Hospitals
June 2010
Child Abuse, Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse. NYC Health & Hospitals
May 2010
Non-Violent Crisis Intervention. NYC Health & Hospitals
June 2009
Managerial and Just Culture. NYC Health and Hospitals
April 2009
Disruptive Behaviour. NYC Health & Hospitals
June 2008
Safety Concerns in Inpatient Psychiatry .NYC Health & Hospitals
March 2008
P.S.107 Q 12th Annual Read Aloud. How Music can be used to help
Children Read. Flushing, New York
February 2008
Basic Life Support Training. Certified in CPR. NYC Health & Hospitals
June 2007
Modern Group Psychoanalysis, Level II. NYC Health & Hospitals
March 2007
P.S. 107 Q 11th Annual Read Aloud. How Music can be used to Help Children Read.
Flushing, New York
May 2006
State Of New York Education Dept. Creative Arts Therapist Licensure
March 2006
P.S. 107 Q 10th Annual Read Aloud. How Music can be used to Help Children Read.
Flushing, New York
January 2006
Fundamentals of Supervision- NYC Dept. of Citywide Administration
Services Citywide Training Center
January 2006
NBHN Performance Appraisal Training (6 hours).NYC Health & Hospitals
December 2005
Performance Appraisal Workshop-Woodhull Hospital
September 2005
Decrease in Violence Committee. Woodhull Hospital
March 2005
P.S. 107 Q 9th Annual Read Aloud. How Music can be used to help Children Read.
Flushing, New York
January 2005
NYCCAT Licensure Symposium. New York Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies
April 2004
Crisis Intervention Training-Woodhull and Cumberland Hospitals
March 2004
Training in Identification and Reporting of Child Abuse and Maltreatment.
The University of the State of New York. The State Education Department
March 2004
P.S. 107 Q 8th Annual Read Aloud. How Music can be used to help Children Read.
Flushing, New York
February 2004
What’s New for 2004: New, Changed and Challenging Standards. Primedia Health
May 2003
Cultural Competency Training. Kingsborough Community College
September 2002
Customer Relations and Cultural Sensitivity Training, Woodhull Hospital
June 2002
Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Advanced two year training course in
Clinical Techniques and Procedures
February 2002
Nonverbal Communication Training/Center for Strategic Movement
January 2002
Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Symposium. Clinical Presentations In Music Therapy
February 2001
Customer Relations Training. HHC Corporation
May 2001
Customer Relations Training. The Center to Promote Healthcare Studies HHC Corporation
November 2001
HIPPA-Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. HHC Corporation
December 2001
NBHN Training. HHC Corporation
December 2001
Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital Pain Management Conference
July 2001
Managing Crisis Situations. 14 Contact Hours, Dept. of Psychiatry Woodhull Hospital
September 1997 - Present
JACHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care. H&H Hospitals
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