Dr. Patrick Olson joined the Department of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases as an instructor as of July 2024. He completed the Medical Scientist Training Program, residency, and infectious disease fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine. His basic science interests focus on how asymptomatic colonization with Staphylococcus aureus influences the development of the immune response against the pathogen. He utilizes a combination of preclinical murine models and human immunophenotyping to investigate this. Dr. Olson specializes in the primary care of patients with HIV and other chronic viral infections. He sees patients in the WUSM HIV clinic on the medical campus and attends on the general infectious diseases consult service at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Areas of Interest in ID:
Host pathogen interaction in bacterial pathogenesis
Infectious Diseases Clinic
620 South Taylor Ave., Suite 100
St. Louis, MO 63110
- BA Mathematics: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (2009)
- BS: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (2009)
- MD: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO (2018)
- PhD: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO (2018)
- Residency: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis MO (2020)