Innovations in Health Learning Lab: The Role of Spirituality in Illness and Health
Innovations in Health Learning Lab: The Role of Spirituality in Illness and Health Featuring Tracy Balboni, MD, and Michael Balboni, PhD
In this Learning Lab, Dr. Tracy Balboni and Dr. Michael Balboni will discuss the most recent research showing how spirituality is important in patient care and holds the promise of reinvigorating how flourishing communities care for the sick.
The Learning Lab series is generously sponsored by Pat and Tony McMunn.
Monday, October 7, 2024
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Vail Mountain School
Peter Abuisi Theater
3000 Booth Falls Road
Vail, CO 81657
RSVPs are also accepted at Events@VailHealth.org or (970) 569-7766. Kindly RSVP by September 27, 2024.
About Our Speakers
Tracy A. Balboni, MD, MPH
Tracy Balboni, M.D., M.P.H. holds degrees from Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health. She serves as Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School, and as Program Director for the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. She developed and led the Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology Service at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center – a service dedicated to the needs of advanced cancer patients.
Dr. Balboni is also the co-director of the Initiative on Health, Spirituality, and Religion at Harvard University. Her primary research interests are located at the intersection of spirituality and the practice of medicine, including the role of spirituality in illness. Her work also includes forging improved dialogue between academic theology, spiritual communities, and the field of medicine.
Michael Balboni, PhD
Michael Balboni, Ph.D., Th.M., M.Div, is a congregational pastor and theologian. He has served both as a congregational minister in Boston and in an intentional Christian community of healthcare students and professionals. He holds a Ph.D. in practical theology from Boston University. As co-founder of the Harvard Initiative on Health, Religion, and Spirituality, he has published approximately fifty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. As a theologian, his focus has included the development of a theology and spirituality of medicine.
With Tracy Balboni, he has co-authored “Hostility to Hospitality: Spirituality and Professional Socialization in Medicine” (Oxford University Press). He is also the co-editor of “Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine” (Oxford University Press). His current book project, also with Tracy Balboni, entitled “Dancing with Lois”, focuses on the 21st-century church, the sick, and Jesus’ call to healing.
