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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2007

Michelle Olson, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Additional Information

Gender

Female

Type of Practice

Clinic

Colon-Rectal Surgery

Methodist Health System

1441 N Beckley Ave

Dallas, TX 75203

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Michelle M Olson, MD, MACM is a colorectal surgeon and the Vice President of Graduate Medical Education at Methodist Health System in Dallas, Texas. A graduate of MCP/Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dr Olson completed her General Surgery Residency at Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan and her Colon and Rectal Surgery Residency at West Penn/Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has devoted the majority of her career to surgical education and is passionate about advancing high reliability care for surgical patients.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Anorectal Disease

  • anal abscess
  • anal fissure
  • anal fistula
  • anal sphincter repair
  • anal tears
  • anal warts
  • colonoscopy
  • hemorrhoid problems
  • hemorrhoidal banding
  • prolapsing hemorroids
  • pruritus ani
  • rectal bleeding
  • rectal prolapse
  • recto-vaginal fistula
  • sphincter repair

Colon and Rectal Disorder/Procedures

  • colon polyps
  • colonoscopy
  • pilonidal disease
  • removal of colon polyps
  • sigmoidoscopy

Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors

  • anal cancer
  • colon cancer screening
  • colonic polyps
  • diverticular disease

Colon and Rectal Other

Vaginal-Rectal Disorders/procedures

  • rectovaginal fistula

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

  • colonoscopy
  • sigmoidoscopy

Bowel Control

  • bowel incontinence
  • incontinence, fecal

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • Crohn's disease
  • ulcerative colitis

Minimal Invasive/Endoscopic Procedures

  • colon/rectal cancer screening
  • colonoscopic polypectomy
  • colonoscopy
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy

Hospital Appointments

Geisinger Med Ctr

Danville, PA,

Associate

08/2005—11/2011

Carle Clinic

Urbana, IL, AA

Attending

12/2011—09/2022

Methodist Health System

Dallas, TX

Colorectal Surgeon

09/2022—Present

Academic Appointments

Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Philadelphia, PA

Clinical Assistant Professor

01/2006—01/2007

Temple University School of Medicine

Philadelphia, PA

Clinical Assistant Professor

01/2006—01/2011

University of Illinois College of Medicine

Chicago, IL

Clinical Associate Professor

01/2011—06/2022

Carle-Illinois College of Medicine

Clinical Professor

03/2018—09/2022