Jon Hallberg

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Credentials

MD

Bio

Jon Hallberg, MD, is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, where he also serves as the director of philanthropy. Dr. Hallberg maintains a busy clinical practice at the M Physicians Mill City Clinic in Minneapolis, where he serves as the medical director. He is also the creative director of the University of Minnesota Medical School's Center for the Art of Medicine, and is a two-time regional Emmy Award winner for his work on the Twin Cities Public Television series, Art + Medicine.

Creative Activity Summary

Dr. Hallberg is especially interested in health communication, and for over 18 years, from 2003 to the end of 2021, he served as the regular health and medical analyst on the regional "All Things Considered" program on Minnesota Public Radio, appearing over 650 times. In 2009, he created a live, inspired-by-radio program called Hippocrates Cafe, that works with professional actors and musicians to explore complicated healthcare topics through story and song. Dr. Hallberg has created over 100 unique shows, having performed them in eight states at such venues as Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Stanford University, the Weisman Art Museum, and the Minnesota State Fair. In 2020, during the Covid pandemic, the live show served as the basis for a new public television series called "Art + Medicine." The four-part series explored the pandemic, race, aging, and disability, and won Upper Midwest Regional Emmy Awards in 2021 ("Reflections on the Pandemic") and 2022 ("Speaking of Race"). "Healthy Aging" has been submitted for an Emmy nomination, and the fourth show, "Disability, Culture and Creativity," will air in October 2023.

Service Summary

Dr. Hallberg has served as medical director of the 10 M Physicians Clinics since November 2021. These include such varied clinics as Broadway Family Medicine (primary care), Hilger Face Center (reconstructive and cosmetic surgery), Mill City Clinic (primary care), Radiation Therapy Center, and St. Louis Park Clinic (child and adolescent mental health, epilepsy, first episode psychosis, memory loss, and treatment-resistant depression).

Clinical Summary

Dr. Hallberg maintains a busy clinical practice at the M Physicians Mill City Clinic, an award-winning art- and light-filled clinic he helped design in 2008 and 2018 (when it was expanded, doubling in size, and remodeled). Since his first year of practice in 1995, Dr. Hallberg has taken a special interest in caring for the creative and performing arts community in the Twin Cities, and has served as the physician for the Guthrie Theater, the Minnesota Orchestra (MO), the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO), the Greater Twin Cities Youth Orchestras (GTCYS), Minnehaha Academy (MA), and various traveling Broadway productions and film companies. He has served as a tour physician multiple times, traveling to such locations as Cuba (MO), Indonesia (SPCO), Italy (SPCO, GTCYS, MA), Poland (GYCYS), Singapore (SPCO), South Africa (MO), and Taiwan (SPCO).