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Joshua sharfstein biography
Joshua Sharfstein
American public health official
Joshua M. Sharfstein (born 1969) is a physician and the current Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.[1] He was Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health from 2011 to 2014, and was principal deputy commissioner of the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration until he stepped down from his post on January 5, 2011.[2][3] He is the former health commissioner of Baltimore, Maryland.
Life and career
A native of Maryland, Sharfstein graduated from Harvard College in 1991.
In the fall of 1992, he entered Harvard Medical School,[4] from where he graduated in 1996. He did his residency in pediatrics through a joint program at Boston Children's Hospital and Boston Medical Center, completing a special pediatricsfellowship with Boston University.
Sharfstein then left Boston for Washington, D. C., where he joined the