Cliff Olson, MBA
Director Information Management

795 El Camino Real, Ames Building
Palo Alto, CA 94301-2302
650-330-5813
Olsonc1@pamf.org

• Facilitates secure access to PAMF data and ensures that all laws protecting patient privacy are followed.  Provide support for grant proposals and study execution by drawing data from several PAMF systems and converting it into analytic files for use by researchers.
• Twenty five years with Hewlett Packard in a variety of sales, marketing, and manufacturing positions.  Spent ten years in the Asia Pacific Reseller Channel Organization developing innovative marketing infrastructure programs to establish and grow the distribution network for printers, PC’s, and supplies in Asia.
• University of California, Berkeley, BSEE, 1973, Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
• University of California, Berkeley, MBA, 1976, Finance/Accounting

Recent Publications

Contopoulos-Ioannidis DG, Ley C, Wang W, Ma T, Olson C, Shi X, Luft HS, Hastie T, Parsonnet J. Effect of long-term antibiotic use on weight in adolescents with acne. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2016 Jan 17. pii: dkv455. [Epub ahead of print]

Thompson CA, Gomez SL, Chan A, Chan JK, McClellan SR, Chung S, Olson C, Nimbal V, Palaniappan LP. Patient and provider characteristics associated with colorectal, breast, and cervical cancer screening among Asian Americans. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2014 Nov;23(11):2208-17. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0487. PubMed PMID: 25368396; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4221799.

Orrico KB, Huynh MH, Olson CW. Comparison of glucose measures in patients receiving concomitant paroxetine and pravastatin to other SSRI/statin combinations. Ann Pharmacother. 2014 Jun 13;48(9):1172-1176. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24928102.

Kurian AW, Mitani A, Desai M, Yu PP, Seto T, Weber SC, Olson C, Kenkare P, Gomez SL, de Bruin MA, Horst K, Belkora J, May SG, Frosch DL, Blayney DW, Luft HS, Das AK. Breast cancer treatment across health care systems: linking electronic medical records and state registry data to enable outcomes research. Cancer. 2014 Jan 1;120(1):103-11. doi: 10.1002/cncr.28395. Epub 2013 Sep 24.

Leeper NJ, Bauer-Mehren A, Iyer SV, Lependu P, Olson C, Shah NH. Practice-based evidence: profiling the safety of cilostazol by text-mining of clinical notes. PLoS One. 2013 May 23;8(5):e63499. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063499. Print 2013.

Weber SC, Seto T, Olson C, Kenkare P, Kurian AW, Das AK. Oncoshare: lessons learned from building an integrated multi-institutional database for comparative effectiveness research. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2012;2012:970-8. Epub 2012 Nov 3.

Weber S, Lowe HJ, Olson G, Seto T, Ferris TA, Das A, Kurian A, Olson C, Kenkare P. Hash-based algorithmic linkage of patient records in de-identified multi-site patient research registries. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011;CRI 81.