Anna Carapellotti

Anna M. Carapellotti (she/her) is a Lecturer at the Center for Arts in Medicine. She teaches courses in the Arts in Medicine Online Graduate Program. Her research focuses on evaluating the impact of dance programs on wellbeing and understanding the experience of dancing using responsive and participatory approaches.
Anna earned her PhD in Psychology from Queen’s University Belfast in 2022 as a Thouron Scholar and her BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. Her doctoral dissertation evaluated the multidimensional impact of dancing with Parkinson’s. A portion of her PhD research was conducted as a 2019-20 Fulbright Scholar sponsored by the Netherland-America Foundation.
Anna also guest teaches dance classes such as Dance for Life and Encore Dancers Workshop at UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine. Anna has facilitated community-based dance classes for people living with Parkinson’s since 2018 and has worked in youth dance since 2008. Both her Parkinson’s dance group and her youth students have won international art competitions.