Meet Melisa Boersma
Early Life
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As a child, Dr. Boersma loved playing sports - tennis, gymnastics, swimming. She loved watching the Olympics and dreamed of competing in gymnastics or diving. Her studying, hard work, and practice ultimately paid off when she was accepted to Stanford University. As a freshman, she joined the Stanford Women’s Swimming and Diving team as a
As a child, Dr. Boersma loved playing sports - tennis, gymnastics, swimming. She loved watching the Olympics and dreamed of competing in gymnastics or diving. Her studying, hard work, and practice ultimately paid off when she was accepted to Stanford University. As a freshman, she joined the Stanford Women’s Swimming and Diving team as a walk-on diver; however, her contribution was quickly recognized, and she earned athletic scholarship assistance. The Stanford Women won the NCAA Division I National championships her freshman year and prevailed again in her senior year when she was honored to serve as co-captain. She graduated as an All-American in both springboard and platform diving. She is forever grateful for the relationships she enjoyed and the education she received - both in the classroom and in the pool.
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In the subsequent years, she completed a master's degree in Biochemistry, worked while assisting her immediate and extended family, pursued a degree in medicine, and found her calling in caring for patients with cancer.
Career
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Dr. Boersma has been a practicing radiation oncologist since 2007, serving patient populations in rural, suburban, and urban communities. In addition to providing excellent patient care, her ability to develop meaning relationships with patients, clinical staff, colleagues, and administrators has proven particularly beneficial in fosterin
Dr. Boersma has been a practicing radiation oncologist since 2007, serving patient populations in rural, suburban, and urban communities. In addition to providing excellent patient care, her ability to develop meaning relationships with patients, clinical staff, colleagues, and administrators has proven particularly beneficial in fostering positive cultures within the clinics and systems she has served. These leadership skills have continued to develop as she became the point-person for situations requiring fresh eyes to problem-solve, lead, stabilize, and grow new and established clinical practices for her partners and employers.
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Melisa understands the challenges that comes with career transition:
- The need to learn new communities, facilities, systems, and procedures.
- The stress that accompanies identifying new clinical care partners, referring providers, and finding available resources for patients.
- The work that goes into developing relationships with clinical
Melisa understands the challenges that comes with career transition:
- The need to learn new communities, facilities, systems, and procedures.
- The stress that accompanies identifying new clinical care partners, referring providers, and finding available resources for patients.
- The work that goes into developing relationships with clinical support and ancillary service providers, built on trust and respect.
- The nuances of navigating and supporting patients with life threatening diagnoses through treatment…
- All of this while trying to stay up to date with the latest clinical data and maintain the highest-level expertise.
She is acutely aware of the demands unique to female physicians, whose other roles may include - but not limited to - wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend…
The balancing act can be challenging at best and impossible at worst.
Dr. Boersma is committed to using the mindset skills she has developed through her own practice and experiences to help others use their powerful minds to write their story and love their lives.