Dr. Colson grew up just outside of Portland, Oregon in the town of Lake Oswego. He moved to the Los Angeles area to complete his undergraduate education at Azusa Pacific University. He then attended the University of Southern California where he earned a Masters of Science in Global Medicine. There he met his wife Kristin who now works for the American Heart Association.
Dr. Colson earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. Loren and Kristin then set their sights on returning to the Pacific Northwest. They moved to Boise, Idaho for residency at Full Circle Health and graduated in 2018, after which he stayed on as faculty. Dr. Colson was a National Health Service Corps scholar and is committed to providing health care to under-resourced populations. He has specific interests in reproductive health, health advocacy, and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine.
He completed a fellowship through the Physicians for Reproductive Health’s Leadership Training Academy and is a Fellow of the AAFP. In addition to his work at Full Circle Health, Dr. Colson currently serves on the AAFP Commission on Education as the chair of the Subcommittee on Resident and Student Issues, is on the board of directors for the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians as well as the Mountain West Regional Society of the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians, and is a founding member of the Idaho Coalition for Safe Healthcare. He also serves as the state’s lead to the Reproductive Health Access Project and as a RHEDI director.
He practices full spectrum Family Medicine including obstetrics at his home clinic on Emerald Street in Boise. In what free time remains after his medical extra-curriculars, Dr. Colson and his family can be found biking about the greenbelt, camping in their Airstream, or finding the new food hotspots around the Treasure Valley.