SHOW BIZ: Stuart Bloom attended the graduate acting program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he was taught by Olympia Dukakis and Deborah Lapidus. He appeared as Mark Slackmeyer in the national tour of the Broadway musical Doonesbury. In New York, his acting credits include Side Street Scenes (for which he also wrote the songs), Next, Please! and Kuni Leml. As a musical comic, he performed original comedy songs at the Improvisation, Don't Tell Mama, and Pallson's.

MEDICINE: Stuart Bloom spent 20 years as a community oncologist/hematologist in the Twin Cities, and has been voted a “Top Doc” by his peers in both Mpls/St. Paul and Minnesota Monthly magazines every year since 2008.

In the fall of 2021, he joined the University of Minnesota Medical School’s Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, where he is the Associate Director of Physician and Faculty Wellbeing

While Stuart still sees patients, his focus is on teaching doctoring skills to medical trainees, addressing burnout (go figure), and exploring the humanities in medicine as affiliate faculty of the Center for the Art of Medicine. His acclaimed musical How To Avoid Burnout in 73 Minutes has enjoyed multiple sold-out runs at both the Open Eye and Southern Theaters in Minneapolis.