About
Alison Oatsdean, MD, is a family medicine physician who cares for children and adults throughout their lives, offering full-spectrum primary care, obstetrics and pregnancy care, gynecology and women’s health care, pediatrics care, chronic disease management and lifestyle and preventative medicine.
Dr. Oatsdean offers patient-centered, trauma-informed care with a focus on lifestyle medicine and disease prevention. She believes in getting to know each of her patients, understanding their goals and any barriers that exist, and helping them create a lifestyle and treatment plan that achieves their goals. Dr. Oatsdean loves the professional relationships she builds with patients and their families, and with parent permission, keeps a wall of photos of all the babies she has delivered.
Outside of work, Dr. Oatsdean loves spending time with her significant other, Danny, and their dogs and cats — Bailey, a golden retriever; Walter, a special-needs black Labrador retriever; Charlie, a tuxedo; Amelia, a calico; and Toothless, or Toothy, a black cat. Her hobbies include arts and crafts, from sewing and woodworking to soldering a custom neon sign, running, trivia and cheering on the Kansas Jayhawks from Tiger country.
Education & Training
Medical School
University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita
Residency
Family Medicine
- Indiana University School of Medicine
Insurances
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Academic Information
Research Profile
Alison Oatsdean, MD, is a family medicine physician and researcher who is interested in cervical cancer prevention and screening, geriatric medicine and wellness, dementia care, psychiatry and mental health services, trauma-informed care and LGBTQ+ care.
As a researcher, Dr. Oatsdean is interested in obstetrics, point-of-care health tools and health equity. She has presented at the Indiana Academy of Family Physicians conference, discussing the use of bedside transesophageal ultrasound to diagnose life-threatening amniotic fluid embolism in an intraoperative patient experiencing cardiac arrest. Dr. Oatsdean works closely with colleagues in obstetrics and gynecology as a researcher.
Research Interests
- Obstetrics
- Point-of-care tools such as ultrasound and dermatoscopy
- Health equity