Program Director
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Dr. Jason Lanham graduated from Drexel University School of Medicine. Subsequently, he entered active-duty Army Service and completed his Family Medicine Residency at Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon, Georgia. During a twenty-one-year Army Career, Dr. Lanham served in various roles including Family Medicine residency faculty, Clinic Director, Department Chief, Deputy Commander for Medical Services, and Family Medicine Program Director. He has had multiple publications in American Family Physician, Evidence-Based Practice, and Essential Evidence Plus. Additionally, he earned the Fellow distinction from the American Academy of Family Physicians, competed a Master of Theology from St. Leo’s University, and is completing a Master of Public Health with concentration in Health Management from Augusta University. Dr. Lanham currently resides in Augusta with his wife Irene and seven children. His professional interests include medical education, academic research, health care disparities, maternal medicine, behavioral health. His hobbies include distance running, reading, and being active in the lives of his family.
Dr. Lanham retired after 21 years in the US Army most of which were devoted to graduate medical education. He continues this passion at Augusta University.
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Allopathic Residency
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Born in Pennsylvania to two Army officers, where I grew up went to college at Villanova University thru an ROTC scholarship, got married to my beautiful wife, and attended Medical School at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. I did my internship and residency in Family Medicine at Fort Bragg, NC. graduating in 1998. We moved to the Washington DC area where my wife completed her residency. I completed a Faculty Development Fellowship at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002. I was in the Army until 2009 when I transitioned to government service at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center, and from there joined AU Health in July 2023. I have been a residency faculty in various roles continuously since 2001.
Clinical Interests: Teaching,Prevention, Screening
Research Interests: Primary Care Evidence Assessment and Dissemination Translational research
Philosophy of Care: To do my best for the patient in front of me. To accompany my patients to optimized physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.
Specialties: Family Medicine
Language(s): English
Assistant Professor
Director, Osteopathic Residency
Associate Director, Allopathic Residency
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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 participates in POCUS education and coordinates simulation education as well as didactic curriculum for the residency program.
Dr. Sharp was awarded the MCG exemplary teaching award in 2023 and New Osteopathic Physician of the year award in 2024 by ACOFP. She is also 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 completed a fellowship in family medicine faculty development at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) in 2024.
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, POCUS, simulations and support of underrepresented minorities in medicine. She happily married and is mom to a tireless daughter and a 4 legged child.
Assistant Professor
Director, Osteopathic Residency
Associate Program Director, Allopathic Residency
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