Kristian Olson, MD, MPH, DTM&H
Vice President, Design Impact
Kris is an Internist and Pediatrician and serves as the Vice President of Design Impact at the Mass General Brigham Integrated Health System where he leads the MGB Springboard Studio. He is a member of the Core Educator Faculty and the Chief Innovation Officer in the Department of Medicine’s Residency Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). He is also the Director of the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) through the MGH Center for Global Health and is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has worked extensively in low and middle-income countries as well as the US to develop innovative solutions to healthcare challenges utilizing design-thinking. Kris is a serial innovator, has several patents, a licensed technology, and has started both non-profit and for-profit ventures to accelerate ideas to implementation.
He completed an undergraduate degree in biology at the University of British Columbia, medical school at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and his residency training in the Combined Harvard Medicine and Pediatrics Program. He trained in the Masters of Public Health program at the University of Sydney as a US Fulbright Scholar and completed a Diploma in Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Contact Dr. Olson at krolson@mgh.harvard.edu.
