Dr. Medha Sharma is a Former Admissions Officer at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served on the admissions committee after first working as a Perelman interviewer, giving her insider knowledge of what top medical schools look for. She is now a dermatology resident at Harvard (Mass General Brigham). She earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating magna cum laude with honors, before pursuing a combined MD from Perelman and an MBA from the Wharton School. At Penn, she chaired the College of Arts and Sciences’ Penn Student Government, co-led the Cut Hypertension Community Clinic, and directed special events for the Internal Affairs Association.
Before medical school, Dr. Sharma spent two years in life sciences consulting at ClearView Healthcare Partners in Boston. At Perelman, she worked with the Penn Medicine/Wharton Fund for Health and Wharton Investment Venture Associates, co-founded an accelerator for social-determinants-of-health startups through Penn HealthX, and conducted research at the Center for Surgery and Health Economics. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, presented at multiple conferences, and more recently worked as a healthcare researcher at Hippocratic AI.
Dr. Sharma pairs her MD/MBA training with hands-on coaching for applicants pursuing medicine or combined “medicine-plus” paths, drawing on her own experience balancing clinical training with business and research. She has mentored students from elementary school through medical school, is fluent in Hindi, and has worked in global health settings across Peru, the Galapagos, Japan, Morocco, and Botswana.
