Rick Olson

E-mail:  Rick

Phone:  503-346-0375

Current Appointment
Adjunct Faculty, Division of Management

Education
M.D., Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 1981

Biography
Rick Olson, M.D., has been active in physician and hospital regulatory issues for most of his 26 years in practice.  He was Chief of Internal Medicine and Chief of Staff at Bess Kaiser Medical Center and is the Chief of Staff at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center, a position he has held since 1996.  By virtue of this position he represents all Kaiser Permanente physicians in the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare initiative to improve hand-off communications.  He has served on the Kaiser Permanente Credentials Committee since 1996 and has co-chaired that committee since 1999.  This committee credentials the over 2000 local clinicians who provide care to Kaiser Permanente members.  In addition, since 1999 Rick has chaired the Inter-Regional Bylaws Committee in Oakland, Ca.  This committee revises the Professional Staff bylaws used in all 35 Kaiser Permanente medical centers.  He has participated in seven successful Joint Commission surveys.

Rick Olson is a 1981 graduate of the OHSU School of Medicine.  He is board certified in Internal Medicine and in 1994 received board certification in Geriatrics.  He currently practices in the Preoperative Evaluation Clinic at Kaiser Sunnyside.  He has attended numerous business and leadership training courses including the Advanced Leadership Program at the Kenan Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill.