Speakers - DWC 2024

Biography

John Mondanaro, PhD, MT-BC, LCAT, CCLS, is an Assistant Professor and Director of Expressive Arts Therapy for the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine in the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital. Earning his Ph.D. in Education and MA in Music Therapy from New York University and BA in Art from Saint Ambrose University, John holds licensure as a creative arts therapist in New York and maintains dual certification in Music Therapy and Child Life practice. He has written and presented extensively on the arts in healthcare, including co-editing the books Music and Medicine: Integrative Models in the Treatment of Pain and Covid Chronicles: Music Therapy in Pandemic Times. John’s dedication to patient care across the lifespan for over 20 years earned him Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s 2017 Care and Compassion Award and the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine’s 2023 Humanities Award for enhancing palliative care through the arts.