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243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114

Dr. Michael V. Boland

Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer, Mass Eye and Ear
  Mass General Brigham
Medical Director of Practice Innovation, Ophthalmology
Site Director, MEE Lexington
  Mass Eye and Ear
Associate Professor

  Harvard Medical School

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Michael Boland, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer for Mass General Brigham, the Medical Director of Practice Innovation for Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.  He is a member of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Glaucoma Center of Excellence, providing medical and surgical care to glaucoma patients.  His research has focused on applied clinical informatics and improving the diagnosis and management of glaucoma by analyzing the results of in-office testing.

In addition to working on medical information technology at his home institutions, he has served on the Medical Information Technology Committee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, including as Co-Chair.  He collaborated with DICOM Working Group 9 on standards for ophthalmology testing devices, leading the development of the DICOM standard for automated perimetry.

Education

  1. 07/2006 - 06/2008

    Fellow/Glaucoma

    Glaucoma Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute (JH WEI), JHU SOM
  2. 08/2005 - 05/2007

    Fellow/Medical Informatics

    Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHU SOM)
  3. 07/2002 - 06/2005

    Resident/Ophthalmology

    Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
  4. 07/2001 - 06/2002

    Intern/Transitional Internship

    Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh
  5. 08/1993 - 05/2001

    MD/PhD program

    University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon University
  6. 08/1988 - 05/1992

    BS/Electrical and Computer Engineering

    University of Colorado at Boulder

Professional Appointments

  1. 2023 - Present
    Site Director, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Lexington
    Massachusetts Eye and Ear Department of Ophthalmology
  2. 2020 - Present
    Medical Director of Practice Innovation
    Massachusetts Eye and Ear Department of Ophthalmology
  3. 10/2020 - Present
    Associate Professor/Ophthalmology
    Harvard Medical School
  4. 2010 - 2020
    Director of Information Technology
    Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute
  5. 2019 - 2020 and 2016
    Associate Residency Program Director
    Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute
  6. 12/2014 - 10/2020
    Associate Professor/Health Sciences Informatics
    Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  7. 12/2014 - 10/2020
    Associate Professor/Ophthalmology
    Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  8. 2016 - 2019
    Residency Program Director
    Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute

Awards

  • 1992
    William L. Everitt Student Award of Excellence
    NEC
  • 1996
    Worthington Predoctoral Travel Award
    American Society for Cell Biology
  • 2008
    Inaugural Recipient of funding from the HealthVault Be Well Fund
    Microsoft
  • 2009
    Young Physician-Scientist Grant
    American Glaucoma Society
  • 2009
    Early Career Clinician-Scientist Research Award
    Alcon / Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
  • 2009
    Mentoring for Advancement of Physician-Scientists Award
    American Glaucoma Society
  • 2010
    Junior Faculty Award
    Wilmer Eye Institute
  • 2012
    Achievement Award
    American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • 2013
    Secretariat Award
    American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • 2017
    Resident Appreciation Award
    Wilmer Eye Institute residents
  • 2018
    Senior Achievement Award
    American Academy of Ophthalmology
  • 2018
    Resident Appreciation Award
    Wilmer Eye Institute residents
  • 2019
    Best Innovation
    Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology
  • 2020
    Resident Appreciation Award
    Wilmer Eye Institute residents
  • 2020
    Surgical Educator Award
    Wilmer Eye Institute residents