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Dan Olson, MD

Fellowship Director, Center for Global Health
Senior Investigator, Center for Global Health

Provider's Specialties

Pediatric Infectious Disease
Pediatrics

Provider's location(s)

Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora

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Pediatric Infectious Disease Program

720-777-6981

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Get to know Dan Olson, MD

Departments and Programs

Infectious Disease

Conditions Treated

Severe Obesity
Pediatric Diseases and Conditions
Viral Infections
Pneumonia

Influenza - Seasonal
Fungal Infections
Bacterial Infections

Languages spoken

Spanish

Experience and background

My clinical interests include the management of infections in children. My specific areas of interest include tropical diseases and diseases related to global health/travel.

Undergraduate 2002

Grinnell College (IA)

Medical School 2007

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Internship 2008

University of Wisconsin (Madison) Program

Fellowship 2010

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fogarty International Clinical Research Fellowship - Malawi

Residency 2010

University of Wisconsin (Madison) Program, Pediatrics

Fellowship 2015

University of Colorado (Children's Hospital Colorado) Program, Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Website: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/bibliography/16WzmM_hEoDA1/bibliography/public/

For Patients:
My research interests are focused on how to measure the effectiveness of vaccines and other health interventions against emerging infectious diseases. This includes how to detect disease in a population using innovative surveillance tools (i.e. smartphones, crowd-sourcing), studying the true burden of disease (both the health and socioeconomic impacts on the individual and the family), and how to reduce disease burden through cost-effective interventions such as vaccines. Much of this work takes places at our University of Colorado research site in Guatemala.

For Referring Providers:
My research interests focus on using innovative approaches to reduce the burden of emerging infectious diseases in resource-limited settings. Specifically, I am interested in using new technologies (smartphones, participatory surveillance) to estimate disease burden, capturing both the clinical (illness severity) and socioeconomic (work absenteeism, reduced productivity) consequences of infectious diseases for individuals and their families, and studying how interventions, such as vaccines, can reduce those burdens of disease in a cost-effective manner. Much of this work takes places at the University of Colorado Research site in Guatemala, where we have several studies focusing on arboviruses, enteric disease, influenza, mosquito vectors, and agricultural worker's health.