Meghan Ross
Music Therapy
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Biography
Meghan Ross, MA, MT-BC is a music therapist at Oaknoll Retirement Residence in Iowa City. She works with older adults at all levels of care, focusing on music therapy in dementia care. Meghan also conducts the Oaknotes Choir, which has Oaknoll residents from all levels of care, and helped create the Caring Cadences program, which brings music therapy-informed performances by Iowa's Dunn Quartet into nursing homes and care centers. She received her undergraduate and master's degrees from The University of Iowa and is the Internship Director at Oaknoll, supporting Iowa interns for the last 8 years. This semester, Meghan will begin at Iowa as an adjunct faculty member teaching the Group Singing Experience class. She is excited to begin working with students and use her experience as a music therapist and choir director in this new setting.
Research areas
- Music therapy
