Biography

Joanne Loewy DA, LCAT, MT-BC is the Director of the Department of Music Therapy, and a Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  A Founding Member of the International Association for Music and Medicine ,she initiated the Department of Music Therapy, in 1994, which among many populations is serving musicians and their unique ailments including chronic fatigue, chemical dependency, performance anxiety and overuse, children with developmental delays, teens with emotional issues, adults with neurological disorders and all ages of patients with asthma and COPD. Her research lab AMEND (assessment of Music Experiences in Navigating Depression) is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. She is an MPI on two NIH studies: a network on pain, and a study addressing how music therapy can impact metabolites of stress in Black pregnant women. She serves on several editorial boards- and is a Cochrane NICU and Palliative Care reviewer. She received her doctorate from NYU and has edited several books including Music Therapy in Pediatric Pain, Music Therapy in the NICU, and she co-edited Music Therapy at End of Life and Caring for the Caregiver: Music Therapy in Grief and Trauma and the Integrative Advances in Music and Medicine: Music, the Breath and Health.