Gerlinde Tynan, MD,FACS
About
This provider has privileges at one or more Boulder Community Health (BCH) locations but is not employed by Boulder Community Health. Contact information on this page may be for a non-BCH location.
Gerlinde S. Tynan, MD, FACS, is a board-certified general surgeon specializing in surgical disease of the breast, mainly breast cancer. After graduating from the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, she completed her general surgery residency at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Dr. Tynan has been specializing in breast surgery since 2009 and has built several comprehensive breast programs, both in Arizona and here in Colorado, with two achieving National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) accreditation under her leadership.
She performs traditional mastectomies, as well as skin and nipple-sparing mastectomies in conjunction with plastic surgery for reconstruction. Dr. Tynan offers expertise in oncoplastic lumpectomies, sentinel lymph node biopsy, axillary dissections and infusion port placements.
Dr. Tynan is an active member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons and a fellow in the American College of Surgeons