Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine


  RICHARD D OLSON PHD
Research Associate Professor
University of WashingtonSchool of MedicineDepartment of Medicine
Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine
Seattle WA


Chief
Cardiovascular Pharmacology Research Laboratory
VA Medical Center, Boise ID

Head,
Cardiovascular Section
Mountain States Medical Research Institute Boise ID



Boise VA Medical Center
500 W Fort St
Boise ID 83702

Phone: (208) 422-1152
Fax: (208) 422-1155

Licensure: State of Washington
Board Certification: Diplomate, The American Board of Internal Medicine
Diplomate, The American Board of Internal Medicine Subspecialty of Endocrinology and Metabolism
American Board of Internal Medicine Certificate of Added Qualificiations in Geriatric Medicine

1971 BS Zoology, College of Idaho
1972-1974 Graduate Study in Pharmacology, Idaho State University, Pocatello ID
1978 PhD Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville TN

1978-1980 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Colorado Medical Center

Olson RD, Mushlin PS, Brenner DE, Fleischer S, Chang BK, Cusack RJ and Boucek RJ Jr.Doxorubicin cardiotoxicity may be due to its metabolite. Doxorubicinol Proceed Nat'l Acad Sciences, USA 85:3585-3589, 1988.
Olson RD and Mushlin PS. Doxorubicin cardiotoxicity: Analysis of prevailing hypothesis. FASEB J 4:3076-3086, 1990.
Cusack BJ, Mushlin PS, Andrejuk T, Voulelis LD and Olson RD. Aging alters the force-frequency relationship and toxicity of oxidative stress in rabbit heart. Life Sciences 48:1769-1777, 1991.
Dodd DA, Atkinson JB, Olson RD, Buck S, Cusack BJ, Fleischer S, Boucek RJ Jr. Doxorubicin cardiomyopathy is associated with decrease in calcium release channel of the sarcoplasmic reticulum in a chronic rabbit model. J Clin Invest 91:1697-1705,1993.
Boucek RJ Jr, Dodd DA, Atkinson JB, Oquist N and Olson RD. Contractile failure in chronic doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy. J Mol Cell Cardiol 29: 2631-2640, 1997.

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