Victoria Vega

Assistant Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Therapy

B.M., West Virginia University; M.M.T., Loyola University New Orleans; Ph.D., Temple University

Dr. Victoria Policastro Vega is an accomplished music therapy clinician, educator, and lecturer.  She received her bachelor’s degree in music education from West Virginia University.  Dr. Vega received her master’s in music therapy from Loyola University, New Orleans.  Dr. Vega completed her doctorate at Temple University where she studied under Dr. Kenneth Bruscia.  She is the third person to receive her PhD in music therapy in the nation.  She has worked at several hospitals and rehabilitation in the New Orleans area, working primarily in neurology.  Dr. Vega has delivered several addresses at music therapy and psychiatric regional and national conferences, as well as at several regional universities.  She is very active in the American Music Therapy Association.  On the regional level, Dr. Vega has been vice-president and president of the South-Central Region for two terms.  On the National level she has served on the Clinical Training and Education Committees, the Judicial Review and Executive Boards and has represented her Region as an Assembly of Delegate.  Dr. Vega’s research interests are music therapy with neurologic disorders, professional burnout and personality.  She has been Coordinator of the Music Therapy Program at Loyola since 2000.

Curriculum Vitae
Office phone: 504-865-2142
E-mail: vpvega@loyno.edu