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NYC Hepatologist Relocates To Join TGH Digestive
Health Center As Area’s Only Liver Transplant Specialist
Sonja K. Olsen, M.D., Brings World-Renowned Experience providing world-class digestive and liver care. as an associate with Gotham
To Tampa General Hospital’s Gastroenterological Practice Having spent her career in academic medicine, Dr. Olsen Medical Associates, co-
On Florida’s East Coast. is at home in the TGH system, which has been Florida’s director of the Medicine Sub-
A board-certified internist, gastroenterologist and leading academic medical center for more than 50 years. Internship clerkship at Weill
transplant hepatologist has left New York University (NYU) She was the chief resident at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell and as the program
Langone Health to join the Tampa General Hospital (TGH) Cornell and previously served as an assistant professor in the director for Advanced
Digestive Health Center, formerly known as the TGH Gastro Department of Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Fellowship in Transplant
Group of the Palm Beaches. Sonja K. Olsen, M.D., will serve assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Lenox Hepatology at NYU. She is
Palm Beach County patients as the area’s only transplant Hill Hospital in New York City and assistant professor in a member of the American
hepatologist, bringing more than a decade of experience in the Department of Medicine at NYU. Olsen has also served Gastroenterological
Association and the American
Association for the Study of
Liver Diseases.
“It’s very inspiring to join Tampa General Hospital’s
expanding presence in Palm Beach County and to help
enhance the cutting-edge treatment its providers and staff
offer,” said Olsen, who will see patients at TGH Digestive
Health Center’s West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens
locations. “As a lifelong New Yorker, I am eager to explore
and learn about this community and to support it through
my practice.”
Olsen will treat patients with colon, liver and bile duct
cancer; gallbladder disease; alcoholic- and nonalcoholic-
related liver disease; drug-related liver injury; all forms
of hepatitis; and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). As Palm
Beach County’s only transplant hepatologist, she 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.
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
All Natural Pain Medicine compassion and care for her patients.”
TGH, which is the primary teaching affiliate of the USF
Ask Us!!! 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
• Compounded Medications plans and a convenient path to complex surgeries.
TGH has been affiliated with the USF Health Morsani
made for you and your pets! College of Medicine since the school was created in the
early 1970s. Today, more than 700 medical school residents
• Compression Hosiery and fellows receive specialty training at TGH in areas
ranging from general internal medicine to neurosurgery.
• Wheelchairs, Walkers, Canes In addition, USF medical, nursing, pharmacy and physical
therapy students all receive part of their training at TGH.
TequesTa Drugs anD Faculty of the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine
admit and care for patients at TGH, as do private practice
physicians, many of whom also serve as adjunct clinical
faculty at USF.
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