Sharmila Upadhya
Professor & Chair, Biochemistry and Genetics
Biography
Dr. Sharmila Upadhya is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry at St. George’s University School of Medicine. She is the co-content manager for Biochemistry and Nutrition. She has been involved in reorienting learning objectives to align content relevant and applicable to medical education.
Her interests are Medical Education, innovation in teaching methods, and curriculum delivery. She teaches Metabolism, Nutrition, clinical and applied aspects of Biochemistry, and Genetics in Terms 1 and 2 in the School of Medicine and in the Genetics course for Premedical Sciences.
Contact Information
Areas of Interest
- Medical Education
- Cancer
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Genetic Disorders
- Nutrition
Affiliations
- Association of Biochemistry Educators (ABE), Member
- International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), Member
Selected Publications
- Vanasse, A. M., Weiler, T., Roth, E. A., Upadhya, S., Toriello, H. V., VanLeuven, A. J., Norris, J. R., Carey, J. C., & Sobering, A. K. (2022). Teaching perspectives on the communication of difficult news of genetic conditions to medical students. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.63003
- Verdi, G., Li, D., Elsea, S. H., Nelson, B., Bhoj, E. J., Hakonarson, H., Yearwood, K. R., Upadhya, S., Gluschitz, S., Smith, J. L. & Sobering, A. K. (2022). A novel unbalanced translocation between chromosomes 5p and 18q leading to dysmorphology and global developmental delay. Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 10, e1900. https://doi.org/10.1002/mgg3.1900
- Emily Hays, Jake Levine, Shruthi Rethi, Emily K. Smith, Sharmila Upadhya, Andrew K. Sobering, Tracey Weiler (2018) Reevaluating Biochemistry and Nutrition Education Through Opinions of Clinicians and Educators; Med.Sci.Educ. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-018-00652-7
Selected Projects
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