Dan Olson, MD, PhD

Provider's Specialties

Infectious Disease - Pediatric
Pediatrics

Provider's location(s)

Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora

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Get to know Dan Olson, MD, PhD

Departments and Programs

Infectious Disease

Conditions Treated

Pediatric Diseases and Conditions
Bacterial Infections
Fungal Infections
Influenza

Pneumonia
Viral Infections
Children's Health

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 Education 2007

Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Internship 2008

University of Wisconsin (Madison) Program

Residency 2010

University of Wisconsin (Madison) Program

Fellowship 2010

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Fellowship 2015

University of Colorado (Children's Hospital Colorado) Program

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.