Former Golfer and LECOM Alumnus on the Frontline of Coronavirus

Former Golfer and LECOM Alumnus Thomas Oliver, DO on the Frontline of Coronavirus Hospital Medicine Internal Medicine Thomas Oliver, DO

PRACTICE NAME

Hospitalist Medicine Services

MEDICAL SCHOOL

Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine

RESIDENCY

Lankenau Medical Center

OFFICE LOCATIONS Lankenau Medical Center

100 East Lancaster Avenue Wynnewood, PA 19096 Thomas Oliver, DO, the acclaimed 2006-09 Purdue golfer, is applying the medical skill that he gained at the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) to battling Coronavirus at Main Line Health Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. The skilled physician sees about 100 COVID-19 patients on a daily basis. Dr. Oliver, a 2016 LECOM at Seton Hill graduate, is Chief Resident and an academic hospitalist in his final year of residency at the medical center.

About a decade ago, the Nottingham, England native attracted national attention in America when he made a hole-in-one while on the Purdue University Boilermakers golf team. During a major tournament in Alabama, the young golfer stepped up to Par 3 to sink the hole more than 200 yards away from him. An All-Academic, All-Big Ten golfer with the Boilermakers, he posted four top 10 finishes during his golfing career.

While a junior in the school of health sciences at Purdue University, Oliver’s interest turned solidly to medicine.

From there, the scholar attended LECOM, where his highly honed training has since brought him fully into his ultimate calling. Dr. Oliver now oversees about 65 trainees and he is working directly with patients, TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT, CALL OR VISIT: 1.866.CALL.MLH MAINLINEHEALTH.ORG some of whom are in the intensive care unit, on ventilators, intubated, or are otherwise critically ill.

“We have been hit quite hard, but we have managed to flatten the curve a little bit,” the 32-year-old physician noted.

Along with taking care of patients, Dr. Oliver builds out surgical schedules during this rapidly changing time in medicine. His days in the Coronavirus battle are arduous - stressful and seemingly endless - but drawing upon his LECOM training, Dr. Oliver manages the uncertainty with a high degree of capable calmness.

His day begins around 6 a.m. as he and other medical professionals enter the health facility through a designated entrance where he dons his mask and he has his temperature taken.

Dr. Oliver faces exposure to the virus with each patient that he sees, but he exhibits the professional and compassionate character that is the hallmark of LECOM graduates. “You want to take care of the patients, you want to be in the room with them and make your clinical judgments,” he explained.

After completing his residency, Dr. Oliver will travel to the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona where his focus will shift to working in the areas of leukemia, hematology, and oncology.

Until then, Dr. Oliver will continue his dedication to combating the deadly virus and relying upon his exceptional LECOM medical training to save lives.