Mildred M. G. Olivier, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Assistant Dean of Diversity
Chicago Medical School
Office of Student Affairs
Room 1.150A
Building: BSB
Phone: 847—578-3264
Fax: 847-578-3298
Mildred.olivier@rosalindfranklin.edu
Biography

Dr. Olivier is Assistant Dean for Diversity and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital at Cook County. She has been a volunteer at RFUMS since 1995. She received her undergraduate degree from Loyola University and her medical degree from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, '88. She completed her ophthalmology residency at Columbia University at Harlem Hospital Center in New York, and her Fellowship in Glaucoma at the Kresge Eye Institute at Wayne State University under the direction of Dr. Dong Shin, M.D, PhD.

As Assistant Dean for Diversity, Dr. Olivier serves on the Chicago Medical School Admissions Task Force, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee, and Alumni Association for RFUMS. She has worked with CAHMCP's Matriculation Program to identify under-represented minority students who are interested in health care. In collaboration with the Student Life Department, Dr. Olivier has brought accomplished alumni speakers to address CMS medical students and other students on campus about pertinent topics relating to medical careers. Together with Dr. Inez Bardella, Dr. Olivier travelled to Haiti to evaluate collaboration with CMS as part of a Global Medical Health Care Program, and also serves on the Travel and Project Scholarships Committee. Dr. Olivier's other activities as Assistant Dean for Diversity include participating in the Match Day Event, counseling unmatched, under-represented minority students, addressing issues to help increase student diversity, inclusion and retention, as well as assisting in identifying minority candidates for faculty. She is the Principle Investigator for an NIH grant which mentors and exposes medical students, residents and fellows to the world of vision research through the Rabb Venable Excellence in Ophthalmology program. Under-represented minorities are encouraged to submit their abstracts and present at the annual meeting of the National Medical Association.

Dr. Olivier is a member-at-large of the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and President of Women in Ophthalmology. She also serves on the Women in Eye and Vision Research Committee of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. She has served on the Advisory Council of the National Eye Institute, the Women's Task Force and Women and Diversity Committee at the Association for Vision and Research in Ophthalmology, and is an AAO delegate to the American Medical Association. Since 2004, she has been a member of the steering committee for AMA's Commission to End Health Care Disparities, where she is currently vice-president. Dr. Olivier served on the board for Prevent Blindness America. She is past president of the Chicago Chapter for the Haitian Physician's Association (AMHE) and the Midwest Association of Haitian American Women, which she founded in Chicago. She is also a board member of the DuSable Museum of African American History. In addition, she is past president of the Chicago Glaucoma Society and is an active member of the American Glaucoma Society.

A veteran of frequent medical missions to Haiti beginning in 1993, Dr. Olivier was a key member of the Task Force on Haiti Recovery following Haiti's earthquake of 2010. Her work takes Dr. Olivier all over the world. She presented on the AAO/PAAO Task Force for Haiti Recovery and Organizational Collaboration at the World Glaucoma Conference in Berlin. She presented at the Columbian Ophthalmological Society Glaucoma Symposium in Cartagena, Colombia.

Dr. Olivier's work has been widely recognized with honors such as the American Glaucoma Society Humanitarian Award, the Roman-Barnes Award, the American Academy of Ophthalmology's Secretariat Award, the American Medical Association's Dr. Nathan Davis Award in International Medicine, the Pan-American Congress of Ophthalmology's Benjamin F. Boyd Humanitarian Award, and Prevent Blindness America's Person of Vision Award.

Dr. Olivier has published in major peer-reviewed journals and is one of the co-authors for the Glaucoma section in Clinical Eye Atlas. She is one of three editors of the book Maintaining the Target Intraocular Pressure: African American Glaucoma Specialists. She is frequently called upon by the media to address the topics of general eye health, glaucoma and efforts to end healthcare disparities.

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