Howard T. Sharp

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Howard T. Sharp, M.D. is an obstetrician and gynecologist at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. Dr. Sharp provides women`s health and has a special interest in the treatment of chronic pelvic pain, and is the head of the Pelvic Pain Clinic located in the Women"s Pelvic Care Center at UUHSC. His other clinical interests include minimally invasive surgery (advanced laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery), uterine fibroids, endometrial ablation, colposcopy, as well as general obstetrics and gynecology. Dr. Sharp is currenlty only accepting established patients in his obstetrics practice. Dr. Sharp is a 1990 graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans Louisiana. He completed his internship and residency at the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1994. After serving a fellowship in Pelvic Surgery with the Greater Baltimore Medical Center for one year, he returned to the University of Utah in 1995, where he is currently the Division Chief of General Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs. Dr. Sharp provided gynecologic care for athletes at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He is a nationally recognized expert on pelvic pain and surgical complications and has been recognized on the Best Doctors in America list by Best Doctors Inc since 2002. He served as President of the International Pelvic Pain Society, and Chair of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Committees on Practice Bulletins and Clinical Document Review. Dr. Sharp"s personal interests include mountain biking. His Patient Health Care tip is: exercise and sleep more, eat and worry less.