Sheri Robb PhD, MT-BC

Sheri L. Robb, PhD, MT-BC is a Walther Professor of Supportive Oncology in the Indiana University Schools of Nursing and Medicine, member of the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, and serves on the Sound Health Initiative leadership team. Dr. Robb is a board-certified music therapist with degrees in music therapy and early childhood special education. She also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in behavioral oncology and cancer control at Indiana University, followed by a training award in clinical and translational research from the Indiana CTSI. Her research focuses on development and testing of music interventions to manage distress and improve positive health outcomes in children and adolescents with cancer and their parents. Dr. Robb is an established investigator with nineteen years of continuous funding from the NIH. She also led publication of Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Interventions to address calls for more transparent and accurate reporting in music intervention research.