Dr. Sarah Thompson

PhD with music, healthcare and user research experience

Research Expertise

Pharmacology (medical)

Complementary and Manual Therapy

Music

About

Dr. Sarah Thompson is an award-winning, board-certified music therapist with extensive experience inleadership positions. She has innovated in a number of spaces, including service design and delivery, reimbursement, and advocacy. Dr. Thompson created and led a music therapy services organization in Denver for 17 years where she established novel partnerships, created new clinical programs, developed research projects, and co-founded a professional networking group to break down silos in community-based care. Dr. Thompson completed her Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary Clinical Science program at the University of Colorado Anschutz medical campus and has additional training in user research and human factors approaches. She collaborates with research teams at various institutions. Dr. Thompson’s primary areas of research are dementia, brain injury, stroke, and other neurologic injuries and disorders.

Publications

Randomized controlled trial of neurologic music therapy in Parkinson’s disease: research rehabilitation protocols for mechanistic and clinical investigations

Trials / Aug 28, 2021

Buard, I., Lattanzio, L., Stewart, R., Thompson, S., Sjoberg, K., Hookstadt, K., Morrow, M., Holden, S. K., Sillau, S., Thaut, M., & Kluger, B. (2021). Randomized controlled trial of neurologic music therapy in Parkinson’s disease: research rehabilitation protocols for mechanistic and clinical investigations. Trials, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05560-7

Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation and Gait Training in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pilot Study

Journal of Music Therapy / Oct 23, 2020

Thompson, S., Hays, K., Weintraub, A., Ketchum, J. M., & Kowalski, R. G. (2020). Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation and Gait Training in Traumatic Brain Injury: A Pilot Study. Journal of Music Therapy, 58(1), 70–94. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thaa016

Feasibility of Home-Based Neurologic Music Therapy for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Pilot Study

Journal of Music Therapy / Jan 01, 2019

Holden, S. K., Sheffler, J., Stewart, R., Thompson, S., Persson, J., Finseth, T., Sillau, S., & Kluger, B. M. (2019). Feasibility of Home-Based Neurologic Music Therapy for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia: A Pilot Study. Journal of Music Therapy, 56(3), 265–286. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thz009

Education

University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus

Clinical Science / December, 2023

Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

M.M., Neurologic Music Therapy / 2008

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

BME, Music Therapy / 2003

Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Experience

University of California, San Francisco

Assistant Professor / February, 2024 — Present

Executive Director, Sound Health Network / November, 2023 — Present

Rehabilitative Rhythms

Chief Executive Officer / January, 2005 — April, 2023

Links & Social Media

Organization Website

Linked In

ORCID

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