Barry Boyd, M.d., M.s.

Biography

With 23 years as a board-certified medical oncologist/hematologist and possessing a Master's degree in nutritional biochemistry, Dr. Boyd is a specialist in cancer treatment and recovery and is a pioneer in the field of integrative cancer care with a targeted focus on nutritional support for cancer patients. Currently, Dr. Boyd is an attending physician at Greenwich Hospital – Yale Medical Center and is an assistant clinical professor at the Yale University School of Medicine. Most recently, he was recruited to develop and direct the Nutrition and Integrative Medicine Curricula at Yale University School of Medicine, which he directed through 2012. In 2010, Dr. Boyd was appointed Director of Cancer Nutrition for the Yale Health System and is developing a Center for Cancer Nutrition Education in affiliation with the Yale Smilow Cancer Survivorship Program. Dr. Boyd is also the founding president of The Integrative Cancer Care Research Foundation and a board member of Environment and Human Health, Inc., a nonprofit organization made up of physicians and public health professionals dedicated to the purpose of protecting public health from environmental harms. Dr. Boyd is the author or co-author of 14 peer-reviewed papers and in 2005 published a book titled, The Cancer Recovery Plan. Dr. Boyd received an M.S. in nutritional biochemistry from the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, and an M.D. from Cornell University Medical College. 

Research Interest

Nutritional Biochemistry