Lorna E. Segall, Ph.D., MT-BC is Associate Professor of Music Therapy and Chair of the Department of Academic & Professional Studies at the University of Louisville School of Music. A board-certified music therapist, her work investigates how music functions as a relational and rehabilitative practice in environments shaped by marginality, transition, and institutional structure.

Her teaching and research sit at the intersection of healthcare, community engagement, and education. Dr. Segall has worked clinically in hospice, medical, aging, and correctional settings, and she designs community-engaged learning experiences that bring students into real-world partnerships while supporting the needs of local communities. Her scholarship examines belonging, identity, and rehabilitation through creative experience, and she regularly presents nationally and internationally on music therapy, aging, and experiential learning.

In parallel with this scholarship, she develops community-embedded learning environments in which students apply therapeutic and relational skills through partnerships with healthcare systems, community organizations, and correctional institutions. These projects function simultaneously as pedagogy, service, and research - investigating how experiential learning shapes empathy, professional identity, and well-being.

Her publications appear in journals including Journal of Music Therapy, The Arts in Psychotherapy, Military Psychology, and Voices, and she has presented nationally and internationally on music therapy, aging, rehabilitation, and experiential learning. She is also co-editor of the book Applied Arts in the Humanities: A Guide for Home and Institutional Caregivers.

Grounded in this collaborative approach to learning, she considers it a privilege to teach and an even greater privilege to keep learning alongside her students, who continually remind her that curiosity is more contagious than expertise.