ABOUT DR. OLSON

Dr. Beatriz R. Olson received her college education at Barnard College, medical degree at Columbia University, internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowship training at University of Pittsburgh, and postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda Maryland. She has extensive publications in peer-reviewed journals on basic and clinical endocrinology research on salt and water metabolism, neuro-endocrinology of appetite regulation, effect of food intake on the reproductive axis, thyroid, and on developing an integrative medicine community. She is board certified in the fields of Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes. She is past President of Connecticut’s Endocrine Society and is currently Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale School of Medicine. She is part of the team that teachers the Healer’s Art course to medical students at Yale. She is attending physician at Waterbury Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital, in Waterbury, CT. Her private clinical practice is focused on Endocrinology and Metabolism and is located in Middlebury, CT, USA. She concentrates on thyroid disease, metabolic and appetite disorders, women’s endocrine and bone problems, as well as, wellness issues. She is a member of Yale’s Thyroid group and refers her cancer patients to Yale’s Smilo Cancer Center. She has received awards from the state of Connecticut for her work and commitment to women’s health care, and has been selected by her colleagues to Best Doctors in America various times.

For the past eleven years Dr. Olson has sought methods of incorporating complementary healing disciplines to help her patients achieve the highest state of well being. She recognized soon after starting private practice that academic western medicine, while crucial, is inadequate at addressing many mind-body problems that her patients experience. Her integrative medicine training includes learning mind-body medicine and Ayurveda as well as meditation from Dr. Deepak Chopra and David Simon, and numerous yearly pilgrimages to Kripalu Center for Yoga in Lenox, Mass. She has attended workshops and/or studied the works of Andrew Weil, Carolyn Myss, Judith Orloff, Rachel Naome Remen, Thomas Moore, Wayne Dyer, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Herbert Benson. Dr. Olson founded Lotus, the Educational Center for Integrative Healing and Wellness in 1997. Lotus, a 15 year old not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization, studies and disseminates evidence-based research on complementary healing arts and western medicine. Lotus creates a place for dialogue on integrative medicine among many healing arts professionals in the greater Waterbury area of Connecticut. She currently serves as president of the board of directors for Lotus (www.lotusmedical.org).