Jack Killen
Affiliated Faculty
he/him
Jack Killen, M.D., is a graduate of Kenyon College and Tufts University School of Medicine. After his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in medical oncology at Georgetown, he began a 34-year career leading biomedical research at the U.S. National Institute of Health. For 16 of those years, he served as Deputy Director and then Director of the Division of AIDS (DAIDS) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), helping lead the establishment and evolution of a global, multidisciplinary research program on HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, and the development of policy on ethics of clinical research in the developing world. He subsequently served as Deputy Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. He retired from the NIH in 2015.
Jack has been a dedicated student of the Enneagram and explorer of the intersections of neuroscience, personality, personal development, and spirituality since 1996. He was certified as a Narrative Tradition teacher at Vallombrosa in 2004, when the Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDP) project – an exploration of the Enneagram from a contemporary scientific perspective – took root. This 20-year collaboration with Drs. Daniel Siegel, David Daniels, Denise Daniels, and Laura Baker, led to the publication of Personality and Wholeness in Therapy in 2024. He has also been certified as a workplace trainer (2012) and coach (2013) by The Enneagram in Business, and is a member of the Narrative Enneagram, and a professional member of the IEA. Jack and his husband Fred Boykin have offered many Enneagram workshops in the Washington, DC and south Florida areas.
Jack is particularly grateful for his experience as a member of the NT Bergamo Learning Community since 2006. It has given him a deep understanding of the methods and power of personal work with the Enneagram and inspired his contributions to the PDP project.
Jack has been a dedicated student of the Enneagram and explorer of the intersections of neuroscience, personality, personal development, and spirituality since 1996. He was certified as a Narrative Tradition teacher at Vallombrosa in 2004, when the Patterns of Developmental Pathways (PDP) project – an exploration of the Enneagram from a contemporary scientific perspective – took root. This 20-year collaboration with Drs. Daniel Siegel, David Daniels, Denise Daniels, and Laura Baker, led to the publication of Personality and Wholeness in Therapy in 2024. He has also been certified as a workplace trainer (2012) and coach (2013) by The Enneagram in Business, and is a member of the Narrative Enneagram, and a professional member of the IEA. Jack and his husband Fred Boykin have offered many Enneagram workshops in the Washington, DC and south Florida areas.
Jack is particularly grateful for his experience as a member of the NT Bergamo Learning Community since 2006. It has given him a deep understanding of the methods and power of personal work with the Enneagram and inspired his contributions to the PDP project.