Mission Statement
The Purpose of the Worcester District Medical Society shall be to do all things as may be necessary and appropriate to advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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.