Marteen (Tina) Olson Ed.D, has taught at Arizona State University from 1975-1980 and from 1999-2018 as an adjunct faculty and an instructor. Her special field is Women’s Health and Gerontology with a focus on cross-cultural aspects of death and dying in different ethnic groups. Her recent research has been with senior services and health promotion interventions such as diabetes, arthritis and other chronic health diseases. While teaching at the collegiate level, she has assisted social service providers in Maricopa County with improving the quality and timeliness of clinical, participant and administrative outcomes. She has been a health consultant in Sweden and England regarding aging issues.
Prior to her time at ASU, Olson was Professor and Dean of Nursing at Grand Canyon Collegem, Director and Assistant Vice Presidebt, CIGNA AZ and CIGNA national, and Director, Samaritan Health Systems subsidiaries.
She has given numerous professional papers and has published in both medical, physician assistant and nursing journals. Publications include new medical treatments in cardiac syndrome X and endothelial dysfunction, and ethical and gerontology issues in health care practice.
- Ed.D. Allied Health, University of Houston, Houston, Texas-1982
- Certificate, Allied Health, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 1982
- M.S.N. Women’s Health, University of Pennsylvania-Philadelphia, 1974
- B.S.N. Nursing, University of Pennsylvania-Philadelphia, 1973
