Dr. Linda Levine Madori

Dr. Levine Madori was featured in an article “Best and Worst Cities for Recreation” on Wallethub. Click here to read the article.

For the past twenty-five years Linda Levine Madori, PhD, has worked in the field of Healthcare as a therapist, teacher, advisor, researcher, supervisor and innovator of new methodology with regard to providing programming to the older population and specifically those afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. Since 1991, Dr. Levine Madori has been a People to People Ambassador Leader and has presented papers and lectured extensively in nine countries including Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Indonesia, Lithuanian, Prague, Russia, China and Italy. Having credentials in both Therapeutic Recreation (M.S., Ph.D.) and New York State Licensing in Creative Arts Therapy (ATR-BC#000971-1), she has had the unique experience to be professionally active on the state level and internationally in moving both professional fields forward into the 21 century. She has chaired the Leisure and Aging Track of the American Society on Aging, served on the Leisure and Aging Section of the National Recreation and Park Association, developed professional educational intensives for the American Art Therapy Association, and implemented workshops and professional panel presentations for educators, therapists and psychotherapists as an Ambassador Leader to the People to People International Educational Program.

Dr. Levine Madori has worked for the past 20 years up from Assistant Professor to a tenured Professor in 2007. Her dissertation research in Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive functioning and psychosocial well-being is the basis for Therapeutic Thematic Arts Programming for the Older Population (TTAP Method) published by Health Professionals Press in December 2006.

In September 2006, Dr. Levine Madori was awarded her first Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholarship and was invited to teach her new and innovative therapeutic approach in both New Zealand at Waikato University and in Australia at Victoria University from February to May, 2007. In 2009, she received a second Fulbright Specialist Award through the Finland Fulbright Office to create and teach a certificate course on the TTAP Method to health professionals in Finland through three Universities: HAMK University of Applied Sciences, SEAMK University of Applied Sciences, and the University of Tampere. Dr. Levine Madori was recognized for her service in the field of Therapeutic Recreation by the New York State Therapeutic Recreation Association receiving the Distinguished Service Award in April, 2007.

2007 Fulbright Award International Teaching and Lecturing Invitations

Waikato University: Hamilton, New Zealand
Victoria University: Melbourne, Australia
Keynote Speaker: The National Alzheimer’s Association of New Zealand
Keynote Speaker: The National Diversity Association, Melbourne, Sidney and Brisbane, Australia
Educational Consultant: Melbourne Alzheimer’s Association
Melbourne Museum of the Arts, City Center, September 2007 (Taped interview on the TTAP Method for National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month)

2009 Fulbright Award International Teaching and Lecturing Invitations

HAMK University of Applied Sciences, Hameenalinna, Finland
Seinajoki University of Applied Sciences, Seinajoli, Finland
University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland
Keynote Finnish Alzheimer’s Association, Helsinki, Finland
Certificate Course in the TTAP Method, Continuing Education, HAMK University