Clement Richard Boland MD

Rick Boland was born on October 19, 1947, in Johnson City, New York, and grew up in nearby Endwell. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1969 and from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1973. His internship in internal medicine was at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut. After his internship, he served for 2 years as a general medical officer at the Gallup Indian Medical Center in Gallup, New Mexico. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Public Health Service hospital in San Francisco and did a 3-year fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.
He was an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF from 1981 until 1984, when he went to Ann Arbor, Michigan, as chief of the gastroenterology section of the Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center; he soon became a full professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. After 11 years in Ann Arbor, he moved to San Diego, California, where he was chief of the division of gastroenterology at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). He remained in that position until 2003 when Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) attracted him as its chief of the Division of Gastroenterology in the Department of Internal Medicine.