Anthony W. Olson, PhD, PharmD
Associate Professor
Center for Pharmacy Innovation and Outcomes
100 N. Academy Ave.
Danville, PA 17822
570-214-0920
awolson@geisinger.edu
Anthony W. Olson, PhD, PharmD
Research Interests
Dr. Olson is an associate professor and clinician scientist in Geisinger's Center for Pharmacy Innovation and Outcomes. His T3/T4 translational research investigates team-based, person-centered care approaches and interventions for tailoring outpatient pharmacist care throughout the life course of individuals and populations. More recently, this work has incorporated advanced technologies, such as large language models, to advance patient care. Dr. Olson's work has been supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Centers for Disease Control Foundation, the Health Resources and Services Administration and the National Institutes of Health. He has employed several quantitative and qualitative methodologies in this work, including the Dillman survey methods, Kellogg logic models, Delphi method and Rigorous and Accelerated Data Reduction (RADaR) technique. Dr. Olson has served as an officer and executive committee member for the American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Pharmaceutical Research & Science and the Minnesota Pharmacists Association as well as the scientific lead for the Pharmacy Scientific Interest Group for the Health Care Systems Research Network. He is also a member of the Journal of the American Pharmacists Association Editorial Advisory Board.
Recent Publications
Rossom RC, Haapala JL, Wright EA, [and 11 others, including Olson AW]. (Sep 2025). Patient impressions of messages and discussions about opioids and opioid use disorder in primary care. In press at Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences.
Rossom RC, Crain AL, Wright EA , Olson AW, [and 20 others]. (Jul 2025). Clinical decision support system for primary care of opioid use disorder: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Internal Medicine. In Press. doi:10.0110/jamainternmed.2025.2535.
Olson AW, Allen N, Elmayan A, Green K, Harry M, Kempfert J, Maki H, Nelson S, St. John R, Witherspoon S, Rapps M. (May 2025). Getting inside the closed referral loop: A mixed methods study using a community-based participatory approach to explore the patient experience with a social care referral platform. Health Services Research, 60(53):e14451. doi:10.111/1475-6773.14451
Olson AW, Pawloski PA, Miller MJ, Waring SC, Kuntz JL, Li X, Wong J, Wright EA. (Jan 2025). The promise of collaborative pharmacy research in integrated health systems: Introducing the Pharmacy Interest Group (PhIG) of the Healthcare Systems Research Network (HCSRN). American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 82(2):120-126. doi:10.1093/ajhp/zxae266
Olson AW, Bucaloiu A, Allen CI, Tusing LD, Henzler-Buckingham HA, Gregor CM, Freitag L, Hooker SA, Rossom R, Solberg L, Wright E, Haller IV, Romagnoli KM. (Jan 2025). ‘Do they care?’: A qualitative examination of patient perspectives on primary care clinician communication related to opioids in the USA. BMJ Open, 15:e090462. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090462
Hooker SA, Starkey CM, Bart G, Rossom RC, Olson AW. (Oct 2024). Predicting buprenorphine adherence among patients with opioid use disorder in primary care settings. BMC Primary Care, 25(2024):361. doi:10.1186/s12875-024-02609-9
Olson AW, Haapala J, Hooker SA, [and 8 others]. (Oct 2023). The potential impact of clinical decision support on non-waivered primary care clinicians’ prescribing of buprenorphine. Health Affairs Scholar, 1(4):1-8. doi:10.1093/haschl/qxad051
Stratton TP, Olson AW. (Jun 2023). Personalizing personalized medicine: The confluence of pharmacogenomics, a person’s medication experience, and ethics. Pharmacy: A Journal of Pharmacy Education and Practice, 11(3):101. doi:10.3390/pharmacy11030101
Olson AW & Burns AL. (Mar 2023). From patient-centered to person-centered: The pharmacist’s role and value in community integrated care. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 63 (3):736-741. doi:10.1016/j.japh.2023.03.003 [Corrigendum: 2025, doi:10.1016/j.japh.2025.102485]
Adekunle OA, Olson AW, Schommer JC, Brown LB. (Dec 2022). Investigation of predictors influencing patient-pharmacist relationship establishment. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 63(3):853-862. doi:10.1016/j.japh.2022.12.024
Adekunle OA, Olson AW, Schommer JC, Brown LB. (Dec 2022). Influence of the patient-pharmacist relationship on willingness to accept pharmacist-provided services. Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 63(3):760-768.e1. doi:10.1016/j.japh.2022.12.016
Education
2020 PhD – University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, Minneapolis, MN
2015 PharmD – University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, Duluth, MN
2009 MEd – George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
2007 BA – St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN