Dr. Charles Sharp Jr., MD – Pasadena, CA
After graduation from Vanderbilt University, Dr. Sharp earned his medical degree from the University of Miami. He received his postgraduate training at LAC/USC Medical Center, interrupted by two years of service in the United States Army, initially Can Tho Army Airfield, Republic of Vietnam, and subsequently. Fort MacArthur Army Hospital, San Pedro California, 1972-1975. His endocrine training commenced at the Diabetes/Ortho Service of Rancho Los Amigos Hospital and continued with a two-year Research Fellowship at LAC/USC. He served on the full-time teaching faculty at USC from 1978 until 1989 when he accepted a faculty appointment at Huntington Memorial Hospital where he was the Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and Chief of Endocrinology at Huntington Hospital. From 1989 to 2014 he also maintained a private practice in endocrinology with a special interest in metabolic bone disease and disorders of mineral metabolism.
In 2014 Dr. Sharp transferred his private practice to Keck Medicine of USC in its Pasadena Office and was an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Keck where he was responsible for teaching metabolic bone disease and physiology of normal and disordered mineral metabolism to medical students, internal medicine residents and endocrine fellows at Keck until September 2019.
Dr. Sharp is certified by the ABIM in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism. He achieved added certification in the discipline of Geriatric Medicine and remained credentialed in that specialty from 1990-2010. He is an active member of The Endocrine Society, and the ASBMR.
