Founder & Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab), United States
Susan Magsamen is Founder and Executive Director of the International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab), Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she explores how arts and aesthetic experiences influence health, wellbeing, learning, and human potential. An Assistant Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins and co-director of the NeuroArts Blueprint with the Aspen Institute, she is a leading voice in the emerging field of neuroaesthetics. Susan is also the co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.