Francis E. Sharkey, M.D.

Francis E. Sharkey, MD, is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.  He first joined UTHSA in 1987 as a tenured Associate Professor after 10 years as a faculty member at Hershey Medical Center – Pennsylvania State University.  He earned his MD degree at Cornell Univ. Medical College in 1970 after transferring from Dartmouth Medical School, where he earned their BMS degree and completed a one year NIH-sponsored Pathology fellowship.  His postgraduate training in Anatomic Pathology was at Cornell – New York Hospital, sandwiched between two years in the US Army Medical Corps.  Following successful board exams in Anatomic Pathology, he then completed a two year fellowship in Oncologic Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  During his 30 year career at UTHSA, he was Director of Surgical Pathology for 17 years and Director of the Autopsy Service for 9 years.  He retired in 2017 and was appointed as an Emeritus Professor of Pathology at that time.  Since retirement, he has been principal investigator for the UTHSA Pathology Tissue and Fluid Biorepository.

Dr. Sharkey has pursued investigational studies involving tumor morphometry, quality assurance and laboratory information systems, human tumor transplants in athymic mice, and transplant and liver pathology.  He has been primary or co-author on 80 publications in the scientific literature and 74 abstract presentations at scientific meetings.  He has lectured locally, nationally and internationally on his areas of scientific and professional interest.  Outside activities have included officership positions in the Group for Research in Pathology Education and the San Antonio Society of Pathologists.  More significantly, he has participated in the College of American Pathologists’ Laboratory Accreditation Program (LAP) since 1990, and has held several commissioner and committee chair roles, and performed over 300 laboratory inspections.  The College has twice awarded him with their highest honors for service to the LAP (Hartman award, 2008; Blumberg award, 2015), and the Texas Society of Pathologists honored him with the Andujar Citation of Merit in 2009.