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The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine is commemorating its 30th anniversary in 2024. Using this milestone as an anchor point, on May 6, 2024, we hope to convene and stimulate clinicians, researchers, and therapists to present some new and novel achievements in reflecting on how far the practice and field of music therapy in medicine and music and medicine has come. Acknowledging many of our past speakers and conferences, this symposium will set the course for the future decades. We will target influential trends in disease management such as the inclusion of, Healing breath, Oncology, AI, with definition and explication of how Diversity will be addressed. Additional focus on various landmarks in practice development such as population-based care: NICU, pediatrics, older adults and clinic-based mental health will stimulate our celebration. Enriching areas will include live, music-based care in maintaining well-being as it is our hope that leaders, influencers, researchers, and developers will attend. This event is meant to be cross-audience in order to facilitate high-level learning that will move the field forward across generations and cultures.