Joke Bradt

Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC is Professor and Director of the PhD program in Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University.
Joke Bradt, PhD, MT-BC is Professor and Director of the PhD program in Creative Arts Therapies at Drexel University. Her federally funded research program has focused on the development and testing of music therapy interventions for chronic pain and symptom management. She has completed several NIH-funded music therapy clinical trials for chronic pain and was the co-PI on a large-scale trial funded by PCORI to compare the effects of virtual music therapy with virtual CBT on anxiety in cancer survivors. She is the lead author of several Cochrane Systematic Reviews on music interventions with medical patients. Dr. Bradt leads the Music4Pain Research Network, funded by the National Center of Complementary and Integrative Health (NIH).
Interests
Music therapy for chronic pain management
Mechanistic research related to hypoalgesic effects of music-based interventions