Joanne Loewy DA, LCAT, MT-BC

Joanne Loewy DA, LCAT, MT-BC is the Director of the Department of Music Therapy, and an Associate Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is a Founding Member of the International Association for Music and Medicine. The Department of Music Therapy, which she initiated in 1994, among many populations is serving musicians and their unique ailments, children with developmental delays, teens with emotional issues, adults with neurological disorders and all ages of patients with asthma and COPD. As PI of the NEA supported AMEND (Assessment of Music Experiences in Navigating Depression) lab, the center looks at how music therapy  contributes to mood across several vulnerable population disease trajectories. Dr. Loewy is an MPI on two NIHs studies:  The impact of live culturally based music on the metabolites and metabolic pathways associated with pre-term birth in Black pregnant women and a second study, ENSEMBLE, a new network focused on the biological mechanisms of how music therapy can influence pain. She’s Editor in Chief of the international, peer reviewed journal 'Music and Medicine. Her doctorate is from NYU and she’s edited several books: Music Therapy in Pediatric Pain, Music Therapy in the NICU, and co-edited Music Therapy at End of Life and Caring for the Caregiver: Music Therapy in Grief and Trauma and Integrative Advances in Music and Medicine: Music, the Breath and Health, and the COVID Chronicles.