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Genevieve Marie Boland is the director of melanoma surgery program and director of the surgical oncology research laboratories at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She holds an academic appointment as assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and is an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT/Harvard. Her research is focused on molecular and immunologic mechanisms of tumorigenesis and blood-based biomarkers of cancer.

Boland completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1998 and earned her combined MD and PhD from Thomas Jefferson University in 2006, completing her thesis studies at the National Institutes of Health. She undertook residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. After residency, she completed a clinical and research fellowship in complex general surgical oncology and is board certified in both general surgery and surgical oncology.

In 2014, Boland returned to Massachusetts General Hospital as a faculty member in the department of surgery.

Boland has been awarded multiple grants in support of her research including the American Surgical Association Foundation Fellowship, the Association of Women Surgeons Award , the Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Fellowship , and the Society of Surgical Oncology Clinical Investigator Award.