About Dr. Stephen J. Iacoboni

Author with FL, cancer patient, 2001

Stephen J. Iacoboni is a dedicated doctor, an award-winning researcher, an outdoorsman who finds solace and rejuvenation in nature, a businessman, a father of grown sons, an oncologist who has fought the good fight beside his patients for three decades, and an author who has chronicled the spiritual journey on which his career has taken him in his book, The Undying Soul. 

In his own words, Stephen tells us:

As an oncologist, I fight cancer.  But I have also found that more often than not, the close personal bonds I form with my patients are as important to them as their medication.  Those bonds have certainly become a part of my life, reminding me that every patient deserves a healthy dose of humanity with whatever else we medical professionals prescribe.

Dr. Stephen J. Iacoboni, MD

My journey as a doctor has been both professionally rewarding and intensely spiritual. While I began my medical career as a scientist, patient by patient an evolution took place.  My patient-guides have shown me that despite the power of medical science, it is often the strength of the soul we must call upon to help us heal – or to accept that we will not.  More than my story, The Undying Soul is meant as a tribute to these patients, a primer for people facing life’s last and greatest mystery … and for those who travel with them, and as solace and comfort for those taking this difficult journey.
I invite you to join me in my journey and in the journeys of a handful of my patients – to join us in celebrating The Undying Soul.

In a tribute to the power of faith, personal connection, and the belief that there is something more, Stephen Iacoboni, MD, reminds us what he so poignantly learned from his patients – that death is not an end, but a beckoning and that wholeness of spirit and freedom from doubt open the way for all of us to The Undying Soul.

Dr. Stephen Iacoboni underwent fellowship training in medical oncology at the prestigious University of Texas MD Anderson Tumor Research Institute in Houston, Tx, 1982-1984. He was presented with the Most Outstanding Research Fellow award for his scientific investigations, and then joined the faculty the following year.  He subsequently entered private practice and co-founded the St. Mary Regional Cancer Center in Walla Walla, Washington, where he practiced for 16 years. Thereafter he continued his oncology career as medical director of the Kootenai Cancer Center in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, where he practiced from 2001 through 2010. He now practices in Kennewick, Washington, as the co-medical director of the Kennewick General Hospital Hematology-Oncology program.