Dr. Sharon McCoy George is a board certified family physician.Her undergraduate degree is from NorthwesternUniversity in Evanston, Illinois.Her studies were in Human Development and Social Policy with a concentration in Public Health.After graduation, Dr. George studied Health Care Ethics at the Institute of Pastoral Studies of LoyolaUniversity of Chicago.She was granted a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Studies in 1987.She then returned to her home state to study medicine at the University of Missouri, Columbia, where she was granted the Medical Degree with the distinction of Magna Cum Laude in 1991.She became a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and served as junior and senior class president.
Mt. Rainier Washington, near Seattle
Specialty training in Family Medicine was at the University of Washington Family Medicine Residency Program.Dr. George then practiced in Seattle for one year before moving to southern California.She continued her medical practice with St. Joseph Heritage Medical Group in Orange for five years.There she practiced the full range of family medicine including inpatient medicine, obstetrics, and pediatrics.In 2001, she joined the faculty of the University of California, Irvine on a full-time basis and had a faculty practice at GottschalkMedicalCenter in Irvine and taught in the residency clinic at the FamilyHealthCenter in Santa Ana. She is an associate professor of Family Medicine at UCI.
Dr. George hopes to spread the message of patient oriented, evidence based primary care by being vice-president of the Board for Ideal Medical Practices, Inc. and teaching in the “Clinical Foundations" course for medical students at the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.
Dr. George is board certified in both Family Medicine and Integrative Holistic Medicine.
When she is not doctoring, Dr. George enjoys family time with her husband, daughters, their cat Hobbes, and Golden Doodle puppy, Milo.
Her girls are constant reminders to live in the moment.
HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER INFORMATION
1. Name and license: Sharon McCoy George MD
2. Highest level of academic degree: Medical Doctor
3. Board certification: Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine
