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Judy C. Boughey, MD (she/her/hers)

Chair, Division of Breast and Melanoma Surgical Oncology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, United States

Judy C. Boughey, M.D., is the W.H. Odell Professor in Individualized Medicine, Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic. She is Chair of the Division of Breast and Melanoma Surgical Oncology, Program Director of the Breast Surgery Fellowship, Chair of the Mayo Clinic Enterprise Breast Specialty Council and co-deputy director for Cancer Practice in Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is the Vice Chair of the Breast Disease Working Group of Society of Surgical Oncology.

Dr. Boughey obtained her B.A. and M.A. degrees in physiology, and M.B., BChir degree at the University of Cambridge. She completed general surgery residency at the University of South Carolina and breast surgical oncology fellowship at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

Dr. Boughey is a passionate researcher and has led multiple national clinical trials funded by National Cancer Institute; ACOSOG Z1071 evaluating SLN surgery in patients with node positive breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ACOSOG Z11102 evaluating breast conservation in women with multiple ipsilateral breast tumors and Alliance A11202 comparing axillary dissection to axillary radiation for patients with node-positive disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Dr. Boughey's practice is focused on breast disease and her research has focused on minimizing the extent of surgery for women treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and advancing individualized medicine and drug development in breast cancer. Dr. Boughey is co-principal investigator of the Breast Cancer Genome-Guided Therapy Study (BEAUTY) at Mayo Clinic evaluating genetic signatures and patient-derived xenografts in the treatment of women with breast cancer being treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy to advance therapeutic developments for breast cancer.

Dr. Boughey is author of over 400 peer-reviewed papers as well as 24 book chapters. She is Chair of the American College of Surgeons Clinical Research Program and president-elect of the American Society of Breast Surgeons..

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