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Sharon Sherrer, PHARMD

With over forty years of experience as a practicing pharmacist, Dr. Sharon Sherrer has extensive experience in many aspects of the profession. She has worked in both chain and community, clinical and consulting, as well as hospital and research. Most recently, she implemented a PGY1 Community Pharmacy residency program at her independent pharmacy. Over the past twenty years, Dr. Sherrer has had ownership in four pharmacies and is currently a partner in Poole’s Pharmacy in Marietta with her son (Thomas).

She is a 1979 graduate of the University of Georgia’s School of Pharmacy and a 1984 graduate of Mercer University’s Southern School of Pharmacy where she received her Doctor of Pharmacy degree. Dr. Sherrer has served as a preceptor for student pharmacists since 1985. Throughout her career she has consistently served in pharmacy initiatives and organizations locally, statewide, and on the national level. She served as President of the Georgia Pharmacy Association in 2007 – 2008 and in 2014 was named Honorary President of the National Community Pharmacy Association (NCPA). She was honored with The Albert E. Rosica, Jr. Award by the Research and Education Foundation of the American College of Apothecaries in 2015 for outstanding contributions to pharmacy education, and, in 2019, she was recognized by the NCPA Foundation as the National Preceptor of the Year. In 2018, Dr. Sherrer was awarded the Bowl of Hygeia, which recognizes pharmacists who possess outstanding records of civic leadership in their communities. Dr. Sherrer was honored in May 2021 by the Mercer College of Pharmacy Alumni Association with the Distinguished Alumni Award.