Joan Pastore, DSW

Joan Pastore, DSW, has long been a part of the Southern Brooklyn community which she proudly serves. She is the Director of the AMICO 59th Street Senior Citizen Center and now oversees the Eileen Dugan Senior Center in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn.

Dr. Pastore sits on the Bio Ethics Committee and Institutional Review Board for Research at Maimonides Medical Center. She is a past member of Community Board 12, where she was Vice Chair of the Social Services Committee and a member of the Transportation and Legislative Committees.

More recently, Dr. Pastore was appointed as a Commissioner for the Age Friendly Commission. The Commission is a partnership between the Mayor’s Office, the NYC Council and the NYC Academy of Medicine, which works with City government, businesses and the non-profit sectors to ensure that the City is addressing the challenges of an increasingly older population.

In addition, Dr. Pastore is a social work educator. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Stony Brook Graduate School of Social Welfare and also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the New York University Graduate School of Social Work.

Dr. Pastore maintains a private psychotherapy practice for adults and adolescents in the Kensington-Windsor Terrace community in Brooklyn.