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Peter Olsen '02 is guest at Obama health care speech

By David Gonnerman '90
September 9, 2009
Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Peter Olsen '02.

Peter Olsen '02, a fourth-year medical student at the University of Minnesota Medical School, was the guest of Sen. Amy Klobuchar at President Obama's address on health care Sept. 9.

Klobuchar met Olsen at a health care roundtable she hosted at the University of Minnesota Medical School in August. During the roundtable, Klobuchar stressed the need for more primary care physicians -- especially in often under-served rural areas. She highlighted the training that Peter Olsen receives at the University of Minnesota’s Rural Physician Associate Program, where students live and train in a rural community in order to better understand rural primary care and help develop community relationships.

"As a medical student pursuing rural family medicine, I understand the importance of primary care and preventive medicine to the American health care system,” says Olsen. “I am grateful to Senator Klobuchar for inviting me."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.