St. Francis Hospital physicians earn honors for outstanding service

INDIANAPOLIS – Eve Olson, M.D., and Nalin Shah, M.D., have been selected as Distinguished Service Award winners by the Medical Executive Committee at St. Francis Hospital & Health Centers.

The two recently were recognized at a St. Francis physicians program and dinner in downtown Indianapolis.

Olson and Shah are past presidents of the St. Francis medical staff and have served on numerous hospital committees.

A member of St. Francis Medical Group, Olson is medical director of the hospital’s Weight Loss Center. She joined St. Francis as an emergency physician in 1984. She later sought intensive training in bariatric medicine and is now board-certified in that field.

In 2003, Olson began treating obese patients at St. Francis in the state’s first comprehensive bariatrics center, which combined both medical and surgical treatments.

Olson earned her medical degree at the Indiana University School of Medicine and completed her residency and internship in emergency medicine at Methodist Hospital.

Shah has been affiliated with St. Francis since 1974 and has served as president of Southeast Anesthesiologists since 1993. He was St. Francis’ medical director of anesthesia from 1993 to 2007.

More than 820 physicians are affiliated with St. Francis Hospital, of which 120 are members of St. Francis Medical Group. For more information about the group, go to www.stfrancishospitals.org/sfmg.