Jan Bonhoeffer MD, PhD

Jan Bonhoeffer is Founder of Heart-Based Medicine, a global network of health care professionals and patients exploring the natural healing potential of health care professionals and patients. He is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Basel Children’s Hospital, Switzerland. He has built and led large global research networks to improve child health, has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters on infectious diseases and vaccines, and worked with the World Health Organization to shape global health programs.

In 2015, Dr. Bonhoeffer underwent a significant shift in the way that he thought about medicine. He realized that moments of true healing occur when he is not simply executing state of the art medical knowledge but when he is participating in a healing event with the patient which he is not in control of. He realized that central to this is the quality of the interaction between the healthcare provider and the patient. It is in this space between them that innovation, insight, and healing happens. Ever since, Dr. Bonhoeffer focusses on the human-to-human transmission of disease and disease prevention not just on an organism level, but in the way that we affect each other in our state of consciousness, and the openness of our hearts. He set out to enable patients, healthcare providers, and other open-hearted individuals to generate a field of love enabling healing in an unprecedented way.

Dr. Bonhoeffer is married to Dr. Jessica Bonhoeffer-Templeton, a developmental pediatrician, and the founder of Youkidoc Kindergesundheit, a heart-based medical center for children and their families in Basel, Switzerland. They have three adorable children.