Sheri Robb Team Research

We are hiring a Clinical Research Specialist! We welcome applications from MT-BCs interested in research and project management to join our study team in Indianapolis. For questions, contact Jessica MacLean, [email protected].
Job posting and application here: https://hrms.indiana.edu/psp/PH1PRD_PUB/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=299511&PostingSeq=1

Congratulations to our Music Therapy colleagues at IUPUI for this big step in the approval process for the new PhD program!

Trustees approve state's first music therapy Ph.D. The IUPUI Ph.D. program will help address the growing demand for music therapy.

Tune in with us today at 3p!

Check out our newest article, "Music Therapy for Children with Oncology & Hematological Conditions and Their Families: Advancing the Standards of Psychosocial Care" published in Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing!
https://doi.org/10.1177/27527530211059726

Congratulations to recipients of funding from National Endowment for the Arts Creative Forces and The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine! Learn more about advancing and research and care for service members: https://www.hjf.org/news/funding-through-creative-forces

Funding through Creative Forces®: NEA Military Healing Arts Network Supports Research into Art Therapy and Music Therapy | HJF This component of Creative Forces is managed in partnership with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF), Inc.

Attention community! This month's Sound Health Network webinar, "Beyond Bonding: Music and the Developing Infant Brain," features Laurel Trainor, PhD; Helen Shoemark, PhD, RMT; & Deanna Hanson-Abromeit, PhD, MT-BC. Livestreaming starts 11/3 at 3p Eastern! Set a reminder here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhvlc-KMPTg

Beyond Bonding: Music and the Developing Infant Brain Lullabies have been a part of human civilization for about as long as we have written history; even the Ancient Babylonians etched them into clay more than 4...

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Congratulations to team member Amanda Henley, who received the Changemaker Award for Music Therapy Advocacy at the 2021 American Music Therapy Association, Inc. national conference! Thank you, Amanda, for all you do for our field!

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Endowment for the Arts webinar "What You Need to Know to Apply for Music and Health Research from the NEA and NIH" and associated PDF slides are now available on the Sound Health Network website! Very helpful information for potential grant applicants! http://ow.ly/wU7E50GbZNg

What You Need to Know to Apply for Music and Health Research Funding from the NEA and NIH The Sound Health Network is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with the University of California, San Francisco, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Renée Fleming.

Join us for the webinar September 14th at 1p Eastern titled "Sound Health: Deepening Discovery of Music's Impact on Health & Wellness," where Drs. Sheri Robb and Julene Johnson will be featured speakers! Information and registration here: https://soundhealth.ucsf.edu/content/sound-health-deepening-discovery-musics-impact-health-wellness

Join us on August 25th -- see below for more information!

Relating Target Engagement to Clinical Benefit – Biomarkers for Brain Disorders of Aging This is the last of three meetings that are part of Phase I of an NIH/Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) project to develop evidence-based music therapies for brain disorders of aging.

Join us for this webinar on July 29th!

Join us on July 29 for What You Need to Know to Apply for Music and Health Research Funding from the NEA and NIH! A one-hour presentation from National Endowment for the Arts and National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff will be followed by a half hour panel Q&A. Register here:
https://conta.cc/3hamyNt

Register for the next National Institutes of Health (NIH) workshop on music-based interventions for brain disorders of aging this Friday, June 18th at 1p here!

Panelists Collaborate to Develop Toolkit for Music-Based Therapies Performers and music lovers the world over will attest that music moves and rejuvenates us, affecting our brains in profound ways. But can investigators prove it? World-renowned soprano Renée Fleming joins researchers to help create a framework to spur data-driven research on the impact of music on...

Provide your input on a current National Institutes of Health (NIH) Request for Information for “Developing Evidence-Based Music Therapies for Brain Disorders of Aging.” Sponsored by National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, NINDS Brain for Life, National Institute on Aging - NIH, in partnership with Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Renée Fleming Foundation

http://ow.ly/w6Ps50F4NLO

Request for Information: Inviting Comments on Developing Evidence-Base Input must be received by June 30, 2021, to be considered.

Tomorrow! Join us for a panel discussion on developing music-based interventions, sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Foundation for the NIH, and the Renée Fleming Foundation! Register here: http://ow.ly/o3ld50EcqiF

All of our study sites are now OFFICIALLY recruiting and enrolling participants for BIO-MUSE! We are excited to see these lovely music therapists at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have their first music/stories sessions with families very soon!

Join Steven Holochwost for today's Sound Health Network journal club!

Journal Club 1: Using Music Therapy to Help Manage Symptoms in Cancer Join us for the inaugural Sound Health Network Journal Club! This month's topic is Music Therapy in the Management of Cancer. We'll be discussing a recent publication by this month's webinar panelist Dr. Steven Holochwost, on using biomarkers to track the effectiveness of a music therapy interventio...

Thanks Sound Health Network for having us! Follow their page for updates on future events!

Thank you to Indre Viskontas, Sheri Robb Team Research, Jefri Franks, and Dr. Steven Holochwost for yesterday's excellent webinar, Using Music Therapy to Help Manage Symptoms in Cancer!

Our next webinar, on Music Training and Brain Development, is on March 24th. More information coming soon!

Today! We hope to see you there! Sound Health Network

Webinar 1: Using Music Therapy to Help Manage Symptoms in Cancer Join us for the inaugural Sound Health Network webinar! Our conversation will feature Jefri Franks, a mother and music therapy advocate, who experienced first hand the power of music during her daughter's treatment of cancer. She will be joined by Sheri Robb, a music therapist, researcher and a memb...

We hope to see you for the first Sound Health Network webinar where we will be discussing using to help manage symptoms in cancer! See below for more information.

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We are so excited to present at the inaugural Sound Health Network webinar on 2/24 -- hope to see you there!

Meet our webinar presenters! Sheri Robb's program of research focuses on the development & testing of music therapy & music-based interventions to manage distress & improve positive health outcomes in children/adolescents with cancer & their caregivers.

Dr. Robb collaborates on research that has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Cancer Institute, Children's Oncology Group, Indiana CTSI, and the IU RESPECT center. She is internationally recognized for her work in pediatric music therapy and has served as expert speaker for workshops hosted by the National Cancer Institute and National Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health, and National Endowment for the Arts. In 2017, the NIH and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts launched the Sound Health: Music and the Mind initiative, which is working to accelerate our understanding about the use of music for health benefit through interdisciplinary collaboration. As part of this initiative, Dr. Robb served as an invited plenary speaker for the NIH panel sessions, and curated the Kennedy Center session on music therapy. Dr. Robb also serves on the Leadership Team for the Sound Health Network, which is funded by the NEA (Dr. Julene Johnson, PI; University of California San Fransico).

Register for our free webinar here: https://bit.ly/3bha8zg

We are so excited for the Sound Health Network launch event next Tuesday -- hope to see you there!

SHN Launch We invite you to participate in the launch of the Sound Health Network (SHN), a partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts with the University of California, San Francisco in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and R...

We are so excited for this event -- hope to see you there!

Sound Health Network Launches with Virtual Event on January 26, 2021 To promote research and public awareness in the area of music and health, the National Endowment for the Arts is partnering with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on the Sound Health Network, a collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the John F. Kennedy Center fo...

New funding opportunities on music & health from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) !

Music and Health: Understanding And Developing Music Medicine (R21 Clinical Trial Optional, PAR-21-099)
http://ow.ly/QFBx50CTWVV

Music and Health: Understanding And Developing Music Medicine (R01 Clinical Trial Optional, PAR-21-100)
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The Sound Health Network (SHN) is a multidisciplinary collaboration to promote research and public awareness about the impact of music on health and wellness. Dr. Sheri Robb is a member of the SHN leadership team, which is being led by Dr. Julene Johnson and Dr. Charles Limb at UCSF in partnership with
National Endowment for the Arts, National Institutes of Health (NIH), The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Renée Fleming, the center’s artistic advisor.
Please visit the SHN website for more information and to register for the launch event on January 26, 2021 at 5pm EST! http://ow.ly/aDkk50CRvS8

We are so excited to attend virtually! We are looking forward to presentations by team members and colleagues from across the country, including tonight's opening session with Dr. Emmeline Edwards of the NIH! Check out for updates.

We are excited to share the results of our pilot study on Active Music Engagement and cortisol as an acute stress biomarker in stem cell transplant patients and caregivers, published in Frontiers in Psychology! Thank you to all the co-authors!
http://ow.ly/EGVk50Cdyyx

After COVID-related restrictions, we are SO excited to get our study up and running at ! We reviewed the study today and loved seeing everyone on our Kansas City team! Happy Halloween everyone🎃

Thanks to my co-presenters for an inspiring panel presentation that looked at the integration of music therapy services within larger Arts in Health programs. The collaborative programs that were featured by each hospital were simply remarkable! Thank you presenters and best wishes to the National Organization for Arts in Health (NOAH) for a successful conference!

On Friday, October 2, Dr. Sheri Robb will participate in an intriguing Plenary Session panel discussion at the Heart Failure Society of America meeting of research published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure entitled, “Beneficial Effects of Listening to Classical Music in Patients with Heart Failure: A Randomized Controlled Trial.”

You can preview the panel discussion in the newest episode of the Heart Failure Beat Podcast, “Listening to Classical Music May Help Patients with Heart Failure: Insights from a New Study and Opera Star Renée Fleming,” available here: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-a727c-ebab68

Listening to Classical Music May Help Patients with Heart Failure: Insights from a New Study and Opera Star Renee Fleming A music intervention from Italy involving daily listening of classical music selections was shown to improve quality of life and other outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure.

Exciting news: we enrolled the first participant on our new BIO-MUSE study! We are glad to be back in business after a delayed start-up due to COVID-19. Follow us for more study updates!

Members of our music therapy team published their experiences in the Journal of Music Therapy! Check out the abstract here. Amanda Henley, Deb Burns, Beth Collier, Caitlin Marie, Marial Biard, Erinn Danielson Frees, Sarah Woolever, Kathryn Yeager Bruno

https://academic.oup.com/jmt/article-abstract/57/3/315/5813540

Music Therapist Experiences of a Randomized Controlled Trial as Clinician Researchers Abstract. Music therapy clinicians bring an important perspective to the design and conduct of clinically meaningful studies. Unfortunately, there continue to

The Journal of Cardiac Heart Failure has released an Editorial and commentary by Soprano Renée Fleming and Dr. Sheri Robb on the Benefits of Music Listening for People Living with Heart Failure (see editorial here: http://ow.ly/Z2JV50ABfP4) along with an additional editorial authored by Jerome Fleg, MD (http://ow.ly/Bnvt50ABfPr). This was in response to findings of an RCT on the benefits of listening to classical music for people living with heart failure conducted by Dr. Francesco Burrai and colleagues (http://ow.ly/4F8B50ABfQu). Access the full online version of the journal here: http://ow.ly/VehS50ABfNz

Be sure to check out “Music and the Mind Live” with Renée Fleming. Her next episode is tonight at 5pm EST. So excited that Renée is expanding this program to a virtual platform. Thank you!

Now available online! Read about our team's first study integrating biological markers.

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/acm.2019.0413?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed&

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Thanks to the team at Riley Children’s Hospital at IU Health and hospitals around the globe for taking care of us. We will stay home for you, so you can go to work for us. Take good care everyone!

Check out the article our team of Music Therapists wrote about their experiences on one of our National Institutes of Health (NIH) trials. AMTA Music Therapy Research
https://academic.oup.com/jmt/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jmt/thaa005/5813540?guestAccessKey=b80913ba-e439-4b93-b5f3-72c2c97070df

Music Therapist Experiences of a Randomized Controlled Trial as Clinician Researchers Abstract. Music therapy clinicians bring an important perspective to the design and conduct of clinically meaningful studies. Unfortunately, there continue to