Linda Olson MD, FACR
Linda Olson MD, FACR is an author and motivational speaker with a Get Out and Go message. A Professor Emeritus of Radiology at University of California, San Diego and former director of Breast Imaging in the Department of Radiology, she is committed to empowering Parkinson’s patients and families to live life as fully as possible in spite of their disabilities. A graduate of Loma Linda University School of Medicine (’76), she has been a triple amputee since 1979 and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2015. GONE: A Memoir of Love, Body, and Taking Back My Life is her first book. Learn more at www.lindakolson.com. Olson and her husband, David Hodgens, MD, raised two children and now live in San Diego with their black lab, Sally.
