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Sharry Veres, MD, MHSM Department Contact: |
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Brief Bio
Dr. Veres is the сhair of the Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. She has expertise in the development of health care innovations to serve inpatient and outpatient, rural, and urban underserved populations. She has experience in developing training for resident physicians, fellows and faculty in the skills needed to create innovative healthcare solutions.
Prior to joining the college, Dr. Veres served as the residency program director and medical director at St. Anthony North Hospital in Westminster, Colorado. She came to Phoenix after nine years in that role. In her time in Colorado, she developed six different fellowship positions, targeting solutions for clinical needs in both local and rural communities in the state. She has received AHRQ funding for a study evaluating stress with the use of electronic health record and messaging systems. She successfully served as a site principal investigator for COVID-19 clinical trials at her former hospital. As a result of those contributions, she received the Family Medicine Physician of the Year award from the Colorado Academy of Family Physicians.
Dr. Veres earned her MD at the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed her family medicine residency at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. She earned a master’s degree in Health Sector Management from Arizona State University.
At the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix, she has obtained two HRSA grants to support rural and primary care education, and supported other research and foundation funded grants. She has helped develop Arizona’s first Family Medicine Rural Training Program in Payson, Arizona and an additional community-based residency program in Mesa, Arizona. She was awarded a Phoenix Business Journal Outstanding Women in Business Award in 2024.