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Show Coveted Beatty Award Presented Dr. Lyman J. Olsen, State ! Director of Health, was ; presented the coveted Beatty Award this week at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Utah Public Health Association being held at the Hilton , ; Hotel. THIS AWARD is presented ; annually for outstanding j service in the field of public ! health, community activities, years of service, education, publications and State and Western Branch Association ; activities. A native of Pleasant Grove, I Dr. Olsen received his un- j dergraduate and medical ! degrees from the University ? of Utah, receiving his M.D. in March, 1954. He received his specialty training in ! pediatrics at the Utah and ' Tulane Universities. Dr. Olsen practiced pediatrics in Provo, Utah, for ten years - 19W-19G8. j DR. OLSEN'S determina- t;en to prevent many of the illnesses and birth defects ! which he saw in his private practice of pediatrics led i him to seek advanced train- ing in public health at the j University of California at ! Berkeley, He received his M.P.H. fr'Mn Berkeley in 1969. He returned to Utah and became State Director of j Health in 1970. Since assuming his position, his time has been devoted to strengthening public health and making it a workable entity in the lives of all. He has served with far sightedness and tireless energy. THIS YEAR Dr. Olsen was elected President of the Association of State and Territorial Ter-ritorial Health Officials. This is a quasi-official organization organiza-tion formed in 1943 to advise the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service and the Chief of the Children's Bureau on matters affecting the Nation's health. He has served on the Executive Ex-ecutive Committee on the conference of State and Provincial Pro-vincial Health Authorities and served as its Secretary-Treasurer Secretary-Treasurer for the past three years. He was a member of the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association and Program Chairman of its Maternal and Child Health Section for the past three years. THIS YEAR he is chairman of the program committee for the Utah Public Health Association. He was a recent member of the National Immunization Task Force appointed by the Secretary of Health of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to advise ad-vise on national immunization im-munization policy. Dr. Olsen served two years in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army in Korea and a year in the Medical Corps in Missouri. Mis-souri. HE IS presently an Assistant Assis-tant Clinical Professor at the University of Utah, and has published many articles and papers. |