[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 120 (Tuesday, July 28, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1148]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     HONORING DR. G. RICHARD OLDS ON HIS RETIREMENT AS DEAN OF THE 
         UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

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                             HON. RAUL RUIZ

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 28, 2015

  Mr. RUIZ. Mr. Speaker, today I am honored to recognize and 
congratulate Dr. G. Richard Olds, Dean of the University of California 
Riverside School of Medicine, on his retirement.
  Dean Olds has led a life of distinguished service as an educator, 
scientist, physician and founding dean of the UC Riverside School of 
Medicine. He has served as a full professor of medicine, molecular, and 
cell and development biology at Brown University, and professor and 
chairman of medicine at the MetroHealth Campus of Case Western Reserve 
University. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Riverside, Dean Olds was 
appointed professor and chair of medicine at the Medical College of 
Wisconsin. He has been an inspirational leader and adviser to hundreds 
of graduates. Among his many contributions to higher education, he also 
served as a tropical disease specialist on the World Health 
Organization expert committee on schistosomiasis, and has authored over 
100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reviews.
  Dean Olds came to UC Riverside to create a School of Medicine--the 
first public medical school in California in more than four decades. 
His drive and vision led to a school with the unique and special 
mission focusing on the needs of the surrounding communities and the 
future path of community-based, value-based health care. In an effort 
to address the severe doctor shortage in Inland Southern California, 
Dean Olds created a medical school that would expand and diversify the 
physician workforce and serve as a catalyst for improving the health of 
the community.
  UC Riverside School of Medicine is accredited largely in part to Dean 
Olds. In 2011, the State of California eliminated pledged annual 
funding for the school, resulting in the denial of accreditation. Dean 
Olds' unrelenting determination fostered an ambitious year of 
fundraising and advocacy, in which the medical school raised $100 
million to support the school for over ten years. The school was 
accredited and the doors opened in fall 2013--the first time in three 
decades that an American medical school was approved after previously 
having been denied accreditation.
  I am proud to recognize Dean Olds on his years of service and 
congratulate him on his retirement from UC Riverside School of 
Medicine. I look forward to his forthcoming accomplishments and future 
success, wherever he begins his next journey. On behalf of the 
countless medical students, future doctors, and patients, whose lives 
you have changed and impacted, thank you for your service.

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