Bob Cutillo

Dr. Bob Cutillo has worked in the United States in urban primary health care to underserved populations for most of his professional life as a physician. He completed medical school in New York City, an internship in Boston, and a family practice residency in Chicago. He has practiced in faith-based health centers in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Denver. Twice he and his family have sought to serve in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). In both cases there was limited time to work in the country due to the traumatic circumstances of war. The first time they were evacuated from Kinshasa when the country’s own military revolted due to the runaway inflation of a dishonest and corrupt government. Their second effort to enter the country was thwarted by a civil war.

Bob is now a retired family physician living in Denver. He has taught at several academic institutions over his career, most recently as Associate Faculty at Denver Seminary and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He has written and taught on how a biblical view of health can inform our culture’s view of life and death, leading to a wiser and more just health care system. He is the author of Pursuing Health in an Anxious Age (Crossway, 2016) and Holding on in the Storm (Read the Spirit Books, 2025).

Dr. Cutillo received a B.S. from Georgetown University, an M.D. from Columbia University, and completed his family medicine residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. A life-long partner in mission, his cherished wife Heather died in 2023 after a three-year journey with cancer. Bob has two married children, Kate and Steve, four grandchildren, and an affectionate cat named Samwise Gamgee. When he is not providing support to low-income elderly seniors through the Handyman Program of Volunteers of America or providing care for patients at a shelter for the homeless, he enjoys playing pickle ball, spending time with his children and grandchildren, and working in a small woodshop in his basement.