Member Biography

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.

Post-doctoral Fellowship - Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana 2009

Ph.D. - University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 1999

M.Ed. - Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 1991