Professor Joke Bradt

Professor Joke Bradt is Professor and Program Director of the PhD in Creative Arts Therapies program in the College of Nursing and Health Professions at Drexel University and a board-certified music therapist.  Her Music, Creativity and Wellness lab is focused on the development and testing of music therapy protocols for chronic pain and symptom management. She is the PI of a recently completed NIH-funded a multi-site mechanistic trial on music therapy for chronic pain management in people with advanced cancer and an NIH-funded clinical trial examining the impact of music therapy on opioid tapering in cancer survivors with chronic pain. She is the co-PI of a large-scale comparative-effectiveness trial, funded by PCORI, comparing virtual music therapy with virtual cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety management in cancer survivors.  She is also leading a study funded by the National Endowment for the Arts investigating the effects of a group music therapy protocol on chronic pain management in active duty service members with chronic pain and co-morbid mild traumatic brain injury. She is known internationally for her expertise in mixed methods research and systematic reviews. She is the lead author of several Cochrane Systematic Reviews on music interventions with medical patients and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy for the past 8 years.