Our Providers
Dr. Ed Boland
My story...
I’m proud to continue my work in Direct Primary Care, now serving as Managing Partner at Welcome Health after 25 years in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine/Public Health. As both doctor and patient, I’ve experienced the impersonal, hurried, often sub-par healthcare of the insurance-based system. Practicing medicine “the old-fashioned way” with time to know my patients and their families has been my dream since medical school.
A little about me, so you’ll know who you’re dealing with:
I graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1983 and was commissioned in the Field Artillery. After serving three years as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, I transferred to the Army Medical Service Corps to work as an environmental engineer and pursue admission to medical school.
In 1994, I graduated with a doctorate in Medicine from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, re-entered the Army, and completed a Family Practice residency at Fort Gordon, GA.
In 2000, I earned a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Washington in Seattle, and in 2001 completed a Preventive Medicine Residency at Fort Lewis, WA.
I am board-certified by the American Boards of Family Medicine, Preventive Medicine/Public Health, and Obesity Medicine.
I retired from the Army as a Colonel in 2011 and became the medical director of Live Healthy MD, a multi-disciplinary clinic designed to deal with the diseases associated with weight.
My medical interests include all types of prevention, especially the treatment of obesity-associated diseases, tobacco use cessation, travel and dive medicine.
I am an active member of Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church and have been on mission trips to Peru, Mexico and Haiti.
In my free-time, I am an avid SCUBA diver and serve on the Columbia County Dive Rescue and Recovery Team. I also enjoy underwater photography.
My high school sweetheart, Mandy, and I celebrated our 34th wedding anniversary last June. We are the proud parents of three daughters and two sons-in-law. We also have a grandson.
