Community Services
The Worcester District Medical Society has a very longstanding commitment to supporting the Worcester community in a variety of ways. Examples include the Community Immunity Program, support of the Worcester Free Clinics, awarding medical student scholarships, physician recognition awards, participation in important and current legislative issues, our local Cable Access TV program Health Matters, our quarterly magazine Worcester Medicine, the Barbershop Health Network Program, ongoing medical education lectures and more. WDMS has a strong commitment to preserving the history of medicine for future generations through its collections and unique Spoken History project.
Tracy Balboni, M.D., M.P.H. serves as Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School. She is a radiation oncologist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and is dually boarded in radiation oncology and palliative care. She is Vice Chair of Education for the Mass General Brigham Department of Radiation Oncology and Program Director for the Harvard Radiation Oncology Program. Dr. Balboni also co-directs the Initiative on Health, Spirituality and Religion at Harvard University. 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. Her primary research interests address the intersection of spirituality and the practice of medicine, including the role of spirituality in illness. Her work also includes optimizing the quality of life of patients living with cancer, including advancing the management of bone metastases. She is a graduate of Stanford University, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health.