Prof. Michael H. Thaut, is a Professor in the Faculty of Music and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He holds a TIER I CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN MIUSIC, NEUROSCIENCE, AND HEALTH endowed by the Federal Government of Canada. He received his Master's and PhD in Music from Michigan State University, with a cognate minor in neuroscience. He holds a special diploma in music from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg/Austria. He is an international leader in basic and clinical auditory and music neuroscience, with over 300 scientific publications and is senior editor of the Oxford Handbooks of Music and Brain and Neurologic Music Therapy. Among other appointments he is on the Governing Board of WFNR and an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine/ UK.
Prof. Volker Hömberg had his medical education at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Freiburg and Boston Massachusetts. His last role was as the Medical Director and Head of Neurology of the Dept. of Neurology at the Gesundheitszentrum Bad Wimpfen and worked as senior neurology advisor for the SRH-Group. He retired from his clinical responsibilities in Sept 2022. He was also the founder, president and vice president of the German Society for Neurorehabilitation for many years. He served as Secretary General for the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation (WFNR) for more than 15 years and was elected President Elect of WFNR in 2020 and took over the presidency in Dec 2022.He is also Vice President of the European Federation of Neurorehabilitation Societies. (EFNR).