Health Care Matters
Health Care Professions and Specialties/Q&A
Thursday, November 11
6-7 p.m., GCC-A

Health Care Matters creates informal in-depth conversations that open opportunities for Reed students to learn from experienced health care professionals. Medical school applicants in particular benefit from such conversations for developing perspective on social and political issues affecting health care recipients and providers. These  are common topics prospective students will be asked to address in the application process.

We strongly recommend that you make Health Care Matters an on-going part of your freshman through senior experience. Dr Lloyd Olson '57 is prepared to speak with students about the political impact on health care delivery, health access systems, medical specialties, interconnectedness of health care profession, etc. All are welcome and encouraged to join these important conversations.

Dr. Olson earned his Doctor of Medicine at Harvard. He trained in pediatrics in Rochester, NY,  and in Seattle. Dr. Olson spent 6 years in the US Army at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and SEATO Research Laboratory in Bangkok, Thailand. He worked primarily with virus etiology of respiratory tract infections in military recruits and in Thai children. Lloyd also did extensive research on Reye Syndrome in northeastern Thailand. He spent three years in the microbiology department at the Indiana University School of Medicine. The final 29 years of his career were at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, MO, as pediatric infectious disease specialist. He became chairman of the department of Pediatrics in 1983 for University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. He also served as medical director of the Medicaid Managed Care program sponsored by the hospital.  Lloyd retired in June, 2005, and moved back to the Pacific Northwest. This is his third year presenting Health Care Matters. Thank you, Lloyd!