Shirley Sharp DO

Dr. Sharp is originally from Bogota, 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 3 years as an emergency medicine physician in New Jersey and Tennessee during the COVID pandemic before returning to Family Medicine at Wellstar-MCG.

She is currently the associate program director and director of Osteopathic education of the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She actively participates in resident education in the department as well as medical student education through the DCFM clinic and the medical school through Patient Centered Learning simulation education.  

She is a fellow of the American College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOFP) where she has participated for several years as a lecturer and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) trainer.

She enjoys mentoring future and current physicians and volunteers as a specialty chair for family medicine for the Latino medical student association and through the Women in Medicine and Science society (WMS).  

She spent several years traveling to El Salvador to provide medical care to communities in need prior to the COVID pandemic and gained experience in underserved and marginalized medicine.

Her interests include OMT, tropical and travel medicine and support of underrepresented minorities in medicine.  She is happily married and is mom to a tireless daughter and a 4-legged child.