Paola Savvidou, DMA, NCTM, serves as Wellness Initiative Program Manager and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance while also running her own piano studio in Ann Arbor, MI. Her work, at the intersection of wellness and pedagogy, has won Article of the Year through MTNA three times. She is the author of Teaching the Whole Musician: A Guide to Supporting Music Students' Wellness (Oxford University Press).