THE AME SITE
Dr. Dean Olson
Hello, and thanks for visiting The AME Site. I have created the site after over a decade of experience working with pilots and the FAA for medical certification. I am a HIMS AME, FAA Employee AME, and Senior AME having performed thousands of Flight Physicals and worked hundreds of complex cases. I have spent countless hours finding solutions to functional problems, creating worksheets, and navigating the AME Guide. I have created The AME Site as a way to help other AMEs be more successful and efficient with their time so that they can utilize the tools and solutions I have found to create a successful AME practice. If the tools, recommendations, and resources I have posted on The AME Site can help you save even a half-hour worth of time a month, then your joining the site will be worth it.
My History
In 1993 I received a Master of Science Degree in Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I graduated with my Medical Doctorate degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2000. I completed a Family Practice Residency in 2003 in Grand Junction, CO at the St. Mary's Family Practice Residency. After graduation in 2003, I moved my family back to Wisconsin where, for the next seven years, I practiced Emergency Medicine, then Urgent Care Medicine, and eventually Occupational Medicine. In 2010, I entered the Aerospace Medicine Residency at Wright State University in Dayton, OH where I received a Master of Science in Aerospace Medicine, completed the residency. I became Board Certified in Aerospace Medicine in 2013 under the American Board of Preventive Medicine.
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After graduation in 2012, I worked as an expert witness doing accident investigation and injury causation analysis and in 2013, I was hired by Wright State University to be the Program Director for the Aerospace Medicine Residency program. I started practicing as a Senior AME in 2013. In 2017, I left the university and started my own flight medicine practice, Flight Med, LLC, www.flight-med.com, performing flight physicals, consulting for complex cases, and I became both a HIMS AME and an FAA Employee AME. In November of 2018, we moved back home to Wisconsin. Having established HIMS cases with pilots in Ohio who were on their second HIMS AME (me) and who's first HIMS AME had abandoned them without letting them know their practice had closed, I felt an obligation to maintain my clinic in Ohio and continue as their HIMS AME. I opened my Wisconsin Flight Med Clinic in April of 2019 and have continued to travel to my Ohio clinic once a month since I moved back to Wisconsin.
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Currently, I practice full-time in my clinics seeing all levels of cases. I contract with United Airlines as a HIMS AME for some of their pilots, I am a HIMS AME for professional pilots who fly for other airlines or who work as corporate pilots, and I perform all levels of assistance and HIMS AME monitoring of professional and private pilots who fall under the SSRI HIMS category. Additionally, I work all levels of complex cases and provide assistance with medical certification.
As a one-man show in my office with no office staff or any medical assistants, I am forced to be efficient with my time and operations. The AME Site is the culmination thus far of my experience, the efficiency I have constructed in my office, and holds the documents and links I have been using for years to build a successful practice. I hope The AME Site can help your practice in whatever stage it is in, from just getting started to helping an already busy practice. Please let me know if you have any questions about the site and thanks for visiting.