Education
- PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- M.Ed, University of Manitoba
- B.Mus, Brandon University
- B.A, University of Manitoba
Biography
Lee Bartel, Professor Emeritus of Music Education and Music and Health, was the Founding Director of the Music and Health Research Collaboratory (MaHRC) and the Director of the Canadian Music Education Research Centre at the University of Toronto. A member and former Board member of the Collaborative Program in Neuroscience (CPIN) he taught a graduate course on Music and Brain and a course on Social Psychology of Music. He was cross-appointed to the Institute for Life Course and Aging, to the Rehabilitation Science Institute, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and a participant in the Collaborative Program in Musculoskeletal Science. He is currently an active member of: the Research & Development Committee in the Music and Health Research Institute at the University of Ottawa, the Advisory Board of the Ozmo Institute for Neuroaesthetics in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and the International Advisory Board of VIBRAC-The Skille-Lehikoinen Centre for Vibroacoustic Therapy and Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Since 2019 he has been Chief Scientific Officer and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Neuro Spinal Innovation, Inc.
With extensive early experience as a music teacher at all levels and as a performing choral conductor, singer, violinist, and guitarist, he has special interest in conditions of learning, pedagogic culture, social psychology, and music in human development. He has focused strongly on music for children developing 60 albums with Fisher Price. In music education his research includes cognition and perception, social psychology, and curriculum, and in general education ranges from international education to issues of evaluation, professional development, homework, and 21st Century learning. He was editor of the Canadian Journal of Research in Music Education, editor of the CME Journal, and senior editor of the CMEA Research to Practice book series. In Music and Health Dr. Bartel’s research currently is focused primarily on sound as pulsed stimulation with applications in neurology, haemodynamics, and musculoskeletal areas with special focus on pain and neurodegeneration. He has a special interest in applications of music in health conditions of aging and is well known for his research and design of music for brain effects with 24 albums on Solitudes and SonicAid. He was nominated for 3 Juno Awards and is the recipient of 4 Platinum and 8 Gold Album awards in Canada and 1 Platinum, 4 Gold, and 1 Latin Gold Album Awards in the USA. He has one TEDx talk entitled “Music Medicine: Sound at the Cellular Level” with over 1.35 million views. He currently has research studies underway on the effect of pulsed sound stimulation on the cognitive effects of long COVID at Baycrest Centre with funding from U of T and University College London, brain mechanisms of pain reduction from pulsed sound stimulation with Fibromyalgia at Baycrest with funding from CIHR through the Canadian Pain Network, and the effect of pulsed sound stimulation of the spine on disc hydration, mRNA expression, and pain reduction at McMaster University and Hamilton Health with funding from HEALTHI (Hamilton Ecosystem to Accelerate and Leverage Trials of Health Innovation).