Boston Healthcare Fellowship Director

Pastor Michael Balboni

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. He has completed post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Divinity School, the Harvard School of Public Health (clinical effectiveness), and the University of Chicago (bioethics). 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.

Michael has three children. They have raised their family as part of the Longwood Christian Community, which they helped co-found in 2003.