Jeffrey J. Olson
MD
Dr. Olson specializes in the neurosurgical treatment of brain and spinal cord tumors and the development of novel diagnostic imaging and therapeutics for them.
Specialty
Dr. Olson is a renowned professor and brain surgeon whose expertise in the management of advanced intracranial tumors and in clinical research provides an important resource for patients interested in clinical trial participation for brain tumors at Winship.
Titles and Roles
- Professor, Departments of Hematology, Medical Oncology, and Neurosurgery
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Director, Clinically-related Neuro-oncology Laboratory
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Co-director, Brain Tumor Program
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Director, Neurosurgical Oncology Fellowship, Department of Neurosurgery
- Emory University School of Medicine
- Neurosurgeon
- Brain and Spine Tumors
- Research Program
- Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics
Biography
In 1990, Jeffrey J. Olson, MD, joined the faculty of Emory University's School of Medicine. He is chair of the Neuro-oncology Working Group overseeing the administration of clinical brain tumor research at Emory. Dr. Olson's clinical interests include tumors of the brain and spinal cord, meningiomas, acoustic neuroma, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, cranial nerve disorders, lesions of the skull base, and stereotactic radiosurgery.
Education
Dr. Olson received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School and completed his residency in neurosurgery at the University of Iowa. He spent three years as a senior staff fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Research
Dr. Olson's primary interest is in neuro-oncology. His laboratory provides surgical expertise for brain tumor modeling in collaboration with investigators throughout Emory so as to maximize the clinical applicability of their research. He serves as the principal investigator on multiple therapeutic and diagnostic brain tumor studies at Emory. This includes determining the mechanisms by which brain tumors are affected by new drugs and facilitating advanced MRI imaging to measure such properties non-invasively. This specialized neurosurgical practice is highly enabled by carrying it out at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, where the advanced infrastructure is present to accomplish this safely and ethically.
Below is a listing of current federal grants for the above principal investigator.
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Publications
Dr. Olson is a member of the Emory Millipub Club which honors authors whose publications have been cited over a thousand times in scientific literature.
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Awards
Dr. Olson has been consistently listed in Atlanta Magazine's annual "Top Doctors" issue.