6am Melbourne time (21st March) , 7pm UK, 8pm Europe, and 3pm NY time 20th March.
Join us for a conversation with Drs. Sheri Robb and Assal Habibi about the development and implementation of manualized treatments and the importance of treatment fidelity in clinical trials. Drs. Robb and Habibi will share about their experiences with this aspect of clinical trial implementation and challenges that they have navigated.
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Dr Sheri Robb
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 an established investigator with sixteen years of continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support her collaborative program of research. She also has worked on projects and research funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
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. Dr. Robb also serves on the Leadership Team for the Sound Health Network, funded by the NEA (Johnson, PI; UCSF).
In response to calls for more transparent and accurate reporting of behavioral interventions in published research, Dr. Robb led development and publication of Reporting Guidelines for Music-based Interventions intended to support Consolidated Standards for Reporting Trials (CONSORT) and Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non-randomized Designs (TREND) statements. The reporting guidelines are listed in the EQUATOR Network and have been adopted by several journals to improve music intervention reporting.
She is a full member of the Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, and directs the Indiana CTSI KL2 Early Career Investigators Program. Robb also served as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Music Therapy (2010–2018).
Dr Assal Habibi
Dr Assal Habibi is an Associate Research Professor of Psychology at the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California. Her research takes a broad perspective on understating child development. She is interested in how biological dispositions and childhood learning experiences such as music training shape the development of cognitive, emotional and social abilities.
She is an expert in the use of electrophysiologic and neuroimaging methods to investigate human brain function and her research have been published in peer reviewed journals including Cerebral Cortex, Music Perception, Neuroimage and PLoS ONE. Dr. Habibi completed her doctoral work at the UC Irvine Department of Cognitive Science, focusing on investigating the effects of long term musical training on pitch and rhythm processing by assessing brain activity during music listening in adult musicians, non-musicians and patients with auditory impairments.
Currently, she is the lead investigator of a 5 -year longitudinal study, in collaboration with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and their Youth Orchestra program (YOLA), investigating the effects of early childhood music training on the development of brain function and structure as well as cognitive, emotional, and social development.