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Dr. Mark Olszyk Appointed as Deputy Chief of Staff for the Perry Point Veterans Affairs Medical Cent

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Photo:  Mark D. Olszyk, MD, MBA, has been appointed as the new Deputy Chief of Staff for the Perry Point VA Medical Center, a division of the VA Maryland Health Care System.

January 29, 2008
           
Mark D. Olszyk, MD., MBA, a resident of Fallston, has been appointed as the new Deputy Chief of Staff for the Perry Point Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, a division of the VA Maryland Health Care System.

As the Deputy Chief of Staff, Dr. Olszyk is responsible for the coordination and supervision of all clinical services at the Perry Point VA Medical Center.  Dr. Olszyk serves as an integral member of the clinical leadership team in coordinating the delivery of quality patient care for approximately 470 inpatients and more than 4,000 outpatients per month who receive their care the medical center.

In addition to providing primary care and specialty outpatient services, the Perry Point VA Medical Center offers a full range of inpatient medical, intermediate and long-term care programs including nursing home care, low-level rehabilitation, geriatric evaluation and management, respite care, chronic ventilator care and hospice care.  The medical center also offers long and short-term inpatient mental health care, including an inpatient alcohol and substance abuse treatment program, as well as intensive outpatient programs for veterans with drug and alcohol addiction.

Dr. Olszyk, who received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and his Master’s in Business Administration in health care administration from the University of Phoenix, began his VA career in 2005 as the chief of emergency medicine at the North Chicago VA Medical Center.  Prior to his VA career, Dr. Olszyk served in the private sector as an attending physician and the head of the Emergency Medicine Department at the Naval Hospital in Great Lakes, Ill., and as an emergency medicine staff physician in a Wisconsin based community hospital.

In addition to his role as Deputy Chief of Staff for the Perry Point VA Medical Center, Dr. Olszyk is an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine at Rosalind Franklin University – Chicago Medical School.

Dr. Olszyk, a U.S. Navy veteran, has authored publications and delivered presentations on emergency medicine at the local, regional and national level.  He is also a Fellow with the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and a member of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.