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Cancer Specialist Bruce M. Boman, MD, Joins Department Of Medicine

bowman.jpg (12206 bytes)Robert L. Capizzi, MD, FACP, the Magee Professor of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College, and Thomas J. Lewis President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, are pleased to announce that Bruce M. Boman, MD, PhD, MS, FACP, has joined the Department of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital as The Robert L. Capizzi Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Medical Oncology and Medical Genetics and Director of the GI Oncology program at Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson.

Dr. Boman’s special interests are in hereditary cancer diagnosis, counseling and management, and in treatment of gastrointestinal oncology.

Dr. Boman comes to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson Medical College from Omaha, NE, bringing over 10 years experience in hereditary cancers (diagnosis, counseling, management) and in gastrointestinal oncology (particularly colorectal cancer). Dr. Boman is an NIH-funded investigator. While in Omaha, he served as Director for Cancer Research and Hereditary Tumors at the Storz Cancer Institute (University of Nebraska Medical Center) and Chairman of Oncology/Cancer Center Director (Creighton University Medical Center).

Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX. Board Certified in Medical Oncology and in Internal Medicine, he completed his clinical training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, where he was an American Cancer Society Oncology Fellow.

Dr. Boman earned his Doctor of Medicine Degree and a Master of Science Degree in Public Health from the University of Minnesota, and did his Doctor of Philosophy Thesis at the Mayo Clinic’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Dr. Boman’s offices will be at:

  • Medical Genetics
    1100 Walnut Street
    Suite 400
    Medical Office Building
    Philadelphia, PA 19107
    215-955-6648

  • Medical Oncology
    Suite 4240, Gibbon Building
    111 S. 11th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19107
    215-955-8874

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