Committee Report
Por Judy Nguyen Engel, MM, MT-BC   
25 de June de 2009
The Research Committee convened on November 20, 2008 in St. Louis, Missouri and discussed the history of research poster session presentations, regulation of size and shape for future poster sessions, on-line abstract submissions, the clinicians-only research grant, and ways to promote regional posters submissions.

The Research Poster Session has a new "look" this year, and the research posters really stood out with the implementation of this new format.  The Committee also discussed regulating size and shape for next year's submissions.

AMTA is going green!  All research poster submissions will now be electronic; deadline is July 15, 2009.  The Research Committee approved the online archival system for all abstracts and posters from previous research poster sessions to keep all music therapists, students, and other professionals abreast of current research topics.  Please look for this on the AMTA homepage.

The Committee has awarded our first clinicians-only grant and we are continuing to study this program.  We had decided that we should give this every other year (contingent on available funds) using the alternate year to evaluate.  However, it was determined that because of a small pool of applicants we should wait at this time, attempt to generate a more robust number of submissions and offer it again in August 2009.

To encourage research whether qualitative, quantitative, or historical, the Committee discussed considerations for expedited approval for posters from the Regional level to the National level.