Sheri L. Robb Professor

Dr. Robb's program of research focuses on the development and testing of music therapy and music-based interventions to manage distress and improve positive health outcomes in children/adolescents with cancer and their caregivers. Dr. Robb is a board-certified music therapist with degrees in music therapy and early childhood special education. In 2009, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral oncology and cancer control at Indiana University and in 2011 a career development award through Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI).

My cancer research goals are to: (1) maintain a funded program of interdisciplinary research to develop, test, and translate music-based interventions to manage distress and improve positive health outcomes in children/adolescents with cancer and their caregivers, (2) examine social, behavioral, psychological, and biological mechanisms of action to more fully understand how active music interventions work to mitigate cancer-related stress, and (3) establish evidence-based practice through funded effectiveness and translational trials.