About G. Richard Olds
Dr. G. Richard Olds was appointed as dean of the UC Riverside School of Medicine in October, 2009. He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and trained in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was an infectious disease fellow and one of the nation’s first Geographic Medicine fellows at University Hospitals of Cleveland, where he also served as medical chief resident and a faculty member.
In 1986, Dr. Olds went to Brown University where he rose to full professor of medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology and headed that institute’s International Health Institute. In 1993, he became professor and chairman of medicine at the MetroHealth Campus of Case Western Reserve University and in 2000, was appointed to his current position as professor and chair of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Dr. Olds is the only tropical disease specialist who currently holds the position of Chair of Medicine at a U.S. medical school. He currently serves on the WHO expert committee on schistosomiasis, the WHO working group in the health of school aged children and serves on the board of a Gates Foundation Initiative to de-worm children in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Olds is author of over one hundred peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and reviews, primarily focused on International Health issues.
Known as an educational innovator, Dr. Olds has taught undergraduates at Brown and medical students during all four years of training at CWRU, Brown and MCW. He has won an Outstanding Teaching award at each institution and he was elected by his peers to the Society of Teaching Scholars at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Olds advises over 100 students a year at the Medical College of Wisconsin and received the MCW Student Assembly’s “Standing Ovation” award for these activities. Dr. Olds serves on the education committee of APM and was on the question writing committee for the Internal Medicine in-service training exam and currently serves on the Steering Committee.