色中色 (PCOM) has announced Taylor E. Olian (DO 鈥�19) as the recipient of the 2019 Mason Pressly
Memorial Medal. The award is presented to a student for his or her outstanding achievement
and service to the College, the community and the osteopathic profession. Recipients
are selected by representatives of the overall College community. Ms. Olian will receive
her medal at PCOM鈥檚 Founders鈥� Day Awards Luncheon on Friday, January 25.
Ms. Olian鈥檚 commitment to the College is made evident through her active involvement in various clubs and organizations on campus. An example is her role as president of PCOM鈥檚 Robert Berger Pediatrics Society, through which she has increased her own and her colleagues鈥� exposure to pediatric subspecialties and has expanded the club鈥檚 educational component through presentations by alumni. She was also a member of the College鈥檚 Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Otolaryngology clubs, as well as its chapter of the Association of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians.
Ms. Olian is active as well in the Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), serving as the assistant district representative and then the district representative for District 3 (covering Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, District of Columbia, Delaware and West Virginia) to facilitate communication between the Academy and medical schools and to help plan national advocacy events. She also is a member of the leadership council of the AAP鈥檚 Section on Pediatric Trainees鈥攚ith 16,000 medical students, residents and fellowship trainees, the Academy鈥檚 largest section鈥攕erving as its national liaison to the Section on Osteopathic Pediatricians.
In addition to her work on campus, Ms. Olian is an active volunteer in her community, logging over 400 community service hours in her four years of medical school. Since 2009, Ms. Olian has spent four days each summer at Camp AsthmaCadabra, an overnight camp designed for children with asthma between ages 7 and 13, in White Haven, Pennsylvania. She began as a counselor and subsequently joined the medical staff, and she plans to take on a leadership role in the next few years. Ms. Olian relishes the opportunity to 鈥渢ake a complex medical condition and be able to relate it in a way that children can understand. The goal is to have them be able to take ownership of their condition, and that鈥檚 something I really pride myself on.鈥�
During summer 2018, Ms. Olian volunteered in the neonatal intensive care unit at AtlantiCare in Pomona, New Jersey. She was a baby cuddler whose charges included babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome who were going through withdrawal. She has also been a child-life services volunteer in the emergency room at Children鈥檚 Hospital of Philadelphia.
Ms. Olian will receive her doctor of osteopathic medicine from PCOM in the spring. She received her undergraduate degree from Elizabethtown College in 2014 and her certificate in biomedical sciences from PCOM in 2015. Ms. Olian is originally from Hazle Township, PA and currently resides in Philadelphia, PA.
Established in 1899, 色中色 (PCOM) has trained thousands of highly competent, caring physicians, health practitioners and behavioral scientists who practice a 鈥渨hole person鈥� approach to care鈥攖reating people, not just symptoms. PCOM, a private, not-for-profit accredited institution of higher education, operates three campuses (PCOM, PCOM Georgia and PCOM South Georgia) and offers doctoral degrees in clinical psychology, educational psychology, osteopathic medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, and school psychology. The college also offers graduate degrees in applied behavior analysis, applied positive psychology, biomedical sciences, forensic medicine, medical laboratory science, mental health counseling, physician assistant studies, and school psychology. PCOM students learn the importance of health promotion, research, education and service to the community. Through its community-based Healthcare Centers, PCOM provides care to medically underserved populations. For more information, visit pcom.edu or call 215-871-6100.
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