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NYC Hepatologist Relocates General Hospital (TGH) Digestive Health Center, and as the program director for Advanced Fellowship

To Join TGH Digestive Health formerly known as the TGH Gastro Group of the Palm in Transplant Hepatology at NYU. She is a member of
Beaches. Sonja K. Olsen, M.D., will serve Palm Beach
the American Gastroenterological Association and the
Center As Area’s Only Liver County patients as the area’s only transplant hepatologist, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
bringing more than a decade of experience in providing

“It’s very inspiring to join Tampa General Hospital’s
Transplant Specialist world-class digestive and liver care. expanding presence in Palm Beach County and to help
Having spent her career in academic medicine, Dr. enhance the cutting-edge treatment its providers and
Sonja K. Olsen, M.D., Brings Olsen is at home in the TGH system, which has been staff offer,” said Olsen, who will see patients at TGH
World-Renowned Experience Florida’s leading academic medical center for more Digestive Health Center’s West Palm Beach and Palm
To Tampa General Hospital’s than 50 years. She was the chief resident at NewYork- Beach Gardens locations. “As a lifelong New Yorker, I
Gastroenterological Practice Presbyterian Weill Cornell and previously served as an am eager to explore and learn about this community and
On Florida’s East Coast. assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at to support it through my practice.”
A board-certified NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, assistant professor in the Olsen will treat patients with colon, liver and bile duct
internist, gastroenterologist Department of Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New cancer; gallbladder disease; alcoholic- and nonalcoholic-
and transplant hepatologist York City and assistant professor in the Department of related liver disease; drug-related liver injury; all forms
has left New York Medicine at NYU. Olsen has also served as an associate of hepatitis; and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). As
University (NYU) Langone with Gotham Medical Associates, co-director of the Palm Beach County’s only transplant hepatologist, she
Health to join the Tampa Medicine Sub-Internship clerkship at Weill Cornell is the only physician in the region with such specialized
expertise in the management of patients with end-stage
liver disease, both before and after liver transplantation.
EXPLORE LUXURY SENIOR LIVING IN SOUTH FLORIDA! Nearly two years ago, Gastro Group of the Palm
Beaches joined forces with TGH to advance treatment
for its patients and to ensure the group was delivering
the highest-quality care in the region. Patients who
need complex, specialized surgeries now benefit from
a convenient, streamlined process when having surgical
procedures performed in Tampa with pre- and post-
surgery care provided in Palm Beach County. TGH
was recognized as one of the top 50 hospitals in the
nation for gastroenterology and gastrointestinal (GI)
surgery by U.S. News & World Report for 2022/23 and
its benign esophageal disorders and pancreatic/hepatic/
biliary cancer programs have received disease-specific
certification from The Joint Commission.
“Adding a stellar, respected physician like Dr. Olsen
is a major step in our efforts to continue providing next-
level service to our patients in Palm Beach County and
beyond,” said Dr. Krumholz of TGH Digestive Health
Center. “She brings not only experience and expertise
from a discerning and high-intensity health care market,
but also extraordinary compassion and care for her
patients.”
TGH, which is the primary teaching affiliate of the
USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, is one of
the highest-ranked hospitals in Florida by U.S. News &
World Report for 2022/23. Palm Beach County patients
who need a higher level of care have a direct connection
to TGH’s academic medicine and resources, including
research breakthroughs, a wider variety of clinical trials
and options for advanced immunotherapy procedures,
enhanced personal treatment plans and a convenient path
to complex surgeries.
TGH has been affiliated with the USF Health Morsani
College of Medicine since the school was created in
the early 1970s. Today, more than 700 medical school
residents and fellows receive specialty training at
TGH in areas ranging from general internal medicine
to neurosurgery. In addition, USF medical, nursing,
ELEVATE pharmacy and physical therapy students all receive part of
their training at TGH. Faculty of the USF Health Morsani
College of Medicine admit and care for patients at TGH,
YOUR LIVING as do private practice physicians, many of whom also
serve as adjunct clinical faculty at USF.
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