Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery - (Clinical Scholar Track)
Dr. Boulton is an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at The University of Arizona College of Medicine where she has been a faculty member since June of 2016. Before relocating to Tucson she was a member of the orthopaedic faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine specializing in orthopaedic traumatology. Her practice involved serving patients at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center Level-I Trauma Center) and the Prince George’s Hospital Center Level-II, Regional Trauma Center) from 2011-2016. Dr. Boulton completed her medical degree at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Technology HST) program at Harvard Medical School in 2005. During medical school she was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowshiand the Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation Fellowshifor her research on mouse models of leukemia. She went on to complete an orthopaedic surgical residency at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program where she served as an administrative Chief Resident. Following residency she performed a one year orthopaedic trauma fellowshiat the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center-University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. She is very passionate about resident education. Previously, she was a member of the University of Maryland orthopaedic residency program education committee and has served as the Associate Residency Program Director for the University of Arizona orthopaedic residency in Tucson from 2017-2022. Each year she serves as an invited faculty member at numerous AO resident courses across the country. Dr. Boulton is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and is a member of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons AAOS) the Orthopaedic Trauma Association OTA) AOTrauma and the Arizona Orthopaedic Society. She maintains a busy full-time clinical practice at Banner University Medical Center focusing primarily on orthopaedic traumatology, but also has interest in disorders of the foot and ankle as well as treatment of post-traumatic conditions such as limb deformity, limb length discrepancy, chronic osteomyelitis and post-traumatic arthritis.