Campbell and Jeanette Plugge Professor of Surgery Vice Chair, Department of Surgery
Chief, Division of General and Oncologic Surgery
Department: Division Surgery Greenebaum Cancer Center: Surgical Oncology
Special Interests: Endocrine and oncologic surgery with an emphasis on cancer of the parathyroid glands, thyroid, and breast
Medical Degree: University of Florida
Residency: Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis, General Surgery
Fellowship: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Surgical Oncology
Certification: American Board of Surgery
Biography: John A. Olson, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., is the Campbell and Jeanette Plugge Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery in the University of Maryland School of Medicine and has been appointed the new Head of the Division of General and Oncologic Surgery within the University of Maryland Medical Center's Department of Surgery.
Dr. Olson is a nationally respected surgeon-scientist who specializes in endocrine and oncologic surgery with an emphasis on cancer of the parathyroid glands, thyroid, and breast. His NIH-funded laboratory focuses on parathyroid disease, and he recently was awarded a NIH R01 grant to study molecular mechanisms of altered calcium sensing in human parathyroid disease. His clinical research interests include development of biomarkers for breast cancer and the study of aromatase inhibitor therapy to improve surgical outcomes for post-menopausal women with breast cancer.
Dr. Olson joins the University of Maryland from Duke University Medical Center where he was Chief of the Section of Endocrine, Breast, and Oncologic Surgery. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics from the University of Florida. He received his general surgery training at Washington University in St. Louis and completed a surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
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