Male
Clinic
660 South Euclid Ave
MSC-8109-22-10
St Louis, MO 63110
United States
John A. Olson, Jr., MD, PhD is The Campbell and Jeanette Plugge Endowed Professor, Head of the Division of General and Oncologic Surgery, and Vice Chairman of The Department of Surgery at The University of Maryland School of Medicine. He also is the Associate Director of the NCI Designated Greenebaum Cancer Center where he directs the quality and research programs of The University of Maryland Cancer Network. He is a board-certified surgeon who specializes in endocrine and oncologic surgery with a focus on surgical diseases of the thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal glands, and breast. Dr. Olson is a member of the American Surgical Association, the Halsted Society, the Society of Clinical Surgeons, the Society of University Surgeons, and the Southern Surgical Association. He has been named to America's Top Doctors, Best Doctors, and US News and World Report's top 1% of doctors in his specialty in the United States. Dr. Olson's research laboratory is funded by the National Institutes of Health to investigate the molecular pathogenesis of parathyroid tumors. He also has been co-principle investigator of clinical trials that documented the ability of aromatase inhibitors to improve surgical outcomes for women with breast cancer. His clinical research also focuses on genetic determinants of breast cancer clinical outcomes. Dr Olson joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2012 following a 12-year tenure on the faculty of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Prior to working at Duke, he trained in surgical oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, in general surgery at Washington University in St. Louis Missouri, and was a Registrar of the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh Scotland. Dr. Olson received his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Baltimore, MD
Chief
02/2012—Present
Towson, MD
Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon
07/2015—Present
Glen Burnie, MD
Consultant, Urological Surgeon
07/2015—Present
Bel Air, MD
Consultant, Urological Surgeon
07/2015—Present
Easton, MD
Consultant, Urological Surgeon
07/2015—Present
Durham, NC
Assistant Professor
07/2000—12/2005
Durham, NC
Associate Professor
12/2005—02/2012
Baltimore, MD
Professor
02/2012—Present