Mission
The mission of the Texas Center for Music & Medicine is to explore all possible relationships between music and medicine and to develop, apply and disseminate successful strategies and therapies for dealing with medical, audiological and mental health problems of musicians.

Goal
Take primary leadership role in addressing the health needs of the music community by developing partnerships that facilitate research and service.

Maintain a discipline-specific advisory board of practicing professionals and promote additional continuing partnerships with local, regional, national, and international institutions.

Establish conceptual and analytic frameworks that accelerate research to understand cause and effect relationships between music making, musician training and the medical needs of musicians.

Develop educational strategies, research and service programs that help music students and professional musicians maintain and promote health.

Establish a teaching and research/service laboratory where faculty and graduate students conduct basic and applied research.

Conduct local, regional, national and international workshops, conferences and symposia for music educators, musicians and performing arts medicine specialists.