Fifteenth Provincial of Region, 2009-present
Myles N. Sheehan, S.J., the youngest of the three children of Dr. John and Elizabeth (Nagle) Sheehan, was born on April 18, 1956. He attended public school in Marshfield, MA until high school, when he went to Thayer Academy in Braintree, MA, and graduated in 1974. He attended Dartmouth College for undergraduate and medical school, receiving his M.D. in 1981. He did his residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He entered the Society of Jesus on August 25, 1985 at the St. Andrew House on Newbury Street, Boston, MA where he completed his novitiate. From 1987 to 1989, he studied philosophy at Loyola University Chicago receiving an M.A., then returned to New England to live at Boston College from 1989 to 1991 where his Regency experience was further medical training with a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine through Harvard Medical School. He began studies in theology at Weston School of Theology, in Cambridge, MA in 1991, received his M.Div. in 1994, and then spent another year in special studies at Weston School of Theology. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 14, 1994 by Bishop Lawrence A. Burke, S.J. From 1991 to 1995, he also worked as a physician at Beth Israel Hospital and gained experience in medical education and curriculum development at Harvard Medical School. He spent the next fourteen years in Chicago, as a Professor of Medicine at Loyola University’s Stritch School of Medicine and practicing medicine. In 2000, he added the administrative duties of Senior Associate Dean to his teaching and research responsibilities. He did his Tertianship in 2003 and professed his solemn vows in the Society on April 22, 2005. He took office as Provincial of the New England Province on the Feast of St. Ignatius, July 31, 2009.