Yolonda Colson, MD, PhD: The Importance of Community in Careers and Leadership
Episode #39 of the Charged podcast.
About Yolonda Colson, MD, PhD
Dr. Colson is the Chief for the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. In addition to her cardiothoracic surgical training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, her academic training includes a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an M.D. from Mayo Medical School, and a Ph.D. and general surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the recipient of the George H.A. Clowes, Jr. Research Career Development Award from the American College of Surgeons, the Edward M. Kennedy Award for Health Care Innovation from CIMIT, an Officer and Exam Chair for the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and was Co-chair of the 2015 American Association for Thoracic Surgery Annual Meeting. She has a specific clinical interest in increasing and improving the identification and treatment of lung cancer in the operating room for lung cancer treatment, and in understanding the unique differences of lung cancer in women.
She is co-inventor on three awarded patents and has received over twenty foundation grants and seven R29/R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute. Dr. Colson's research focuses on the development of unique mechanisms of polymer and nanoparticle drug delivery aimed at preventing cancer recurrence, and the investigation of novel methods to identify hidden tumor that has spread to nearby lymph nodes. She has over 135 peer-reviewed publications highlighting her previous work in transplantation and her most recent investigations in sentinel lymph nodes in lung cancer and polymer-mediated drug delivery.
Clinical Interests:
- Chest wall tumors
- Chest wall tumors & reconstruction
- Lung cancer
- Lung nodules and ground glass opacities
- Minimally invasive chest surgery
- Pleural Disease
- Sarcomas
- Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
- Women's lung cancer
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Surgery: Thoracic Surgery
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-2100
Medical Education
- MD, Mayo Medical School
- Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Residency, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
American Board Certifications
- General Surgery, American Board of Surgery
- Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, American Board of Surgery
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Dr. Colson always does a great job explaining test results in detail and in ways I can understand.
She is excellent, caring, and is the best provider I have ever had.
Dr. Colson was very informative and made you understand what was happening. Thank you.
She is always professional, explaining everything so I understand. I feel very well cared for by this surgeon.
I have the utmost respect for Dr. Colson. She did my surgery. She obviously gave me the very correct diagnosis. Every visit has been a top number 10 always. She is a terrific surgeon, a terrific listener. She's terrific in every way and there is no question in my mind I would highly recommend her always. And she is always on my radar for any of my ... Read More
She was not only knowledgeable and well versed in my situation, but pleasant and courteous as well.
Dr Colson is an excellent Physician. She is kind, humble, authentic, a terrific listener, & brilliant! She is in a league of her own! Thank you!
Dr. Colson spent a lot of time reviewing all my previous diagnostic scans to compare them with the current scans. She was very detailed in her explanation of my findings and her final decision. She included my thoughts as well regarding any future studies.
Magnificent She is "remarkable" I'm SO LUCKY to have her
good experience