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Shirley L. Sharp, DO, MS, FACOFP

Augusta, Georgia

Shirley L. Sharp, DO, is originally from Colombia and moved to the United States to earn her bachelors at Georgia State University in 2007, she then attended the Georgia campus of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and earned her master’s in biomedical sciences in 2008 as well as her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine in 2014. She completed a combined residency in Family Practice and Emergency Medicine at Jefferson Health Northeast in Philadelphia PA in 2019. She worked as a family physician in Philadelphia for several years and worked for several years as an emergency medicine physician in New Jersey and Tennessee during the COVID pandemic before returning to Family Medicine at Augusta University in Georgia. She is currently the associate program director and director of Osteopathic education at the Family and Community medicine residency at the Medical College of Georgia. In this position, she is able to educate medical students and residents in family medicine and through MCG she participates in Patient Centered Learning experiences teaching medical students about general practices of history taking and caring for patients. She is a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOFP) where she has participated in education through lectures and teaching OMT. She is one of the delegates for the state of GA and member at large at the GA-Society of ACOFP. She works to foster and enhance education opportunities for medical students, residents and practicing physicians. She volunteers as a specialty chair for family medicine for the Latino Medical Student Association and Women in medicine and science society. She spent several years traveling to El Salvador to provide medical care to communities in need prior to the COVID pandemic. Because of that experience passions include manipulative medicine, global health and underserved medicine.

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