Patrick Boland has been an Attending Surgeon in the Orthopaedic Service, Department of Surgery, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for more than 30 years. Born in Co. Meath, he grew up on a farm. The family also had a country pub, and he worked in both. 

Paddy is a graduate of University College Dublin School of Medicine and Medical Science. He completed residency training in both General Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hammersmith and Middlesex Hospitals in London, and the Peter Bent Brigham and Children’s Hospitals in Boston. His training in musculoskeletal oncology included 18 months as a Fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Boland is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in both General Surgery and Orthopaedics. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.  

Management of primary benign, primary malignant sarcomas, and metastatic malignant musculoskeletal tumors in both children and adults has been the focus of his practice. He developed a special clinical and research interest in sacral tumors over the years, founding the Select International Sacro-Pelvic Tumor Study Group.

Dr. Boland has co-authored 150 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.  

Having received multiple awards throughout his career most recently Dr. Boland has been named to Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors which represents the top 7% of all U.S. practicing physicians for the last 10 years including 2024 and Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area. In 2019 he received the Nobility in Science Award from the Sarcoma Foundation. He is particularly proud to have received the prestigious Willet F. Whitmore Award for Clinical Excellence at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in 2012.

One of Dr. Boland’s patients shared their experience of being his patient. One cannot speak more highly of Patrick Boland as you would simply run out of words, he is one of the five people in my life that I hold in the highest regard and with the warmest affection. He is a tremendous human being and a tremendous surgeon. He gave me many, many years of my life.

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