Dr. Amy Comander

MD

Dr. Amy Comander is a breast oncologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. She is Director of Breast Oncology and Survivorship at the Mass General Cancer Center in Waltham and at Newton Wellesley Hospital, and Medical Director of the Mass General Cancer Center in Waltham. After majoring in Neurobiology as part of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative at Harvard, she attended the Yale University School of Medicine, where she discovered her interest in the field of Oncology. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and Hematology-Oncology fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. She is board certified in Hematology and Medical Oncology, and she became board certified in Lifestyle Medicine in 2020. She is on the board of the Ellie Fund, which provides support to women with breast cancer in Massachusetts. She has a passion for improving the quality of life and outcome of cancer survivors through lifestyle interventions, including exercise, diet, and mind/body strategies. In collaboration with Dr Beth Frates and Dr Michelle Tollefson, she has launched “PAVING the Path to Wellness,” a lifestyle medicine-based program for breast cancer survivors. Recently, Dr. Comander, Dr. Beth Frates, and Dr. Michelle Tollefson have published the "PAVING the Path to Wellness" workbook. Dr. Comander” practices what she preaches,” and she recently ran her 9th consecutive Boston Marathon to support the Ellie Fund.