Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester Announces Inaugural Lam Professor of Music and Medicine

About David M. Greenberg:

Dr. David M. Greenberg (Yeshaya David) is a cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist whose research explores music at the intersection of medicine, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. His work uses advanced computational models to understand how the acoustical elements of music interact with the human brain and emotion, with applications for personalized medicine and conditions such as autism and PTSD.

He was previously honorary research associate at the University of Cambridge where he served as co-chief principal investigator on clinical music therapy trials in autism. He has raised over $2.85 million in research funding and published more than 55 scientific articles in leading journals, such as Nature, PNAS, and the American Psychologist.

He is the chief science officer and co-founder of CHIME Health AI Inc., whose patent-pending technology uses human responses to music to screen for neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions. A trained saxophonist, Dr. Greenberg studied jazz performance at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Dr. Greenberg serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Music Therapy and Musicae Scientiae and is a trustee and board member of the Music Therapy Charity (UK). He is also a member of the APEX Consortium at Cambridge, a major multinational collaboration investigating how prenatal biology, genetics, and sex-differentiated neurodevelopment shape autism diagnosis.

He has also built large-scale citizen science platforms that have engaged 1.78 million participants globally, including the Sound Mind Databank (formerly the Musical Universe project)-the world's most extensive phenotypic database on music and mental health, comprising one billion data points from 350,000 individuals across 150 countries. This makes it possible to generate much needed research and tools for precision medicine for decades to come. This unprecedented resource will serve as a foundation for new breakthroughs and digital tools in music and medicine for decades to come.

In his TEDx talk in Ramat Aviv , Dr. Greenberg shared how his life's work was inspired by the memories of his grandfather's singing, which comforted him as an infant in intensive care recovering from a life-threatening condition.

About Eastman School of Music:

The Eastman School of Music was founded in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman (1854-1932), founder of Eastman Kodak Company. It was the first professional school of the University of Rochester. Mr. Eastman's dream was that his school would provide a broad education in the liberal arts as well as superb musical training.

More than 900 students are enrolled in the Collegiate Division of the Eastman School of Music-about 500 undergraduates and 400 graduate students. They come from almost every state, and approximately 23 percent are from other countries. They are taught by a faculty comprising more than 170 highly regarded performers, composers, conductors, scholars and educators. They are Pulitzer Prize winners, GRAMMY winners, Emmy winners, Guggenheim fellows, ASCAP Award recipients, published authors, recording artists and acclaimed musicians who have performed in the world's greatest concert halls. Each year, Eastman's students, faculty members and guest artists present more than 900 concerts to the Rochester community. Additionally, more than 1,700 members of the Rochester community, from young children through senior citizens, are enrolled in the Eastman Community Music School.

About the University of Rochester:

The University of Rochester is one of the nation's leading private research universities, one of only 62-member institutions in the Association of American Universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives undergraduates exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College, School of Arts and Sciences, and Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Nursing, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, and the Memorial Art Gallery.

About the University of Rochester Medical Center:

With more than 32,000 part- and full-time employees, the Medical Center is the largest single component of the University of Rochester and centerpiece of its medical research, health professions education, and patient care missions. The main campus is comprised of Strong Memorial Hospital, the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, the University of Rochester School of Nursing, and Eastman Institute for Oral Health. Under the UR Medicine clinical brand, URMC serves as upstate New York's premier health care delivery network, including seven affiliate hospitals and anchored by Strong Memorial, an 897-bed, University-owned teaching hospital designated by the New York State Department of Health as a Level One Regional Trauma and Burn Center and home to Western New York's only cardiac transplant program.