University of Southern California

Faculty Profile

Sharon E. Orrange, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical
General Internal Medicine


Bio
Dr. Orrange received her BA in Biology at the University of California, San Diego and a Masters Degree in Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She received her MD from the USC/Keck School of Medicine and completed residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Orrange spent time during and after graduate school as a community health educator in East Baltimore and West Virginia doing teen pregnancy prevention and HIV education. Dr. Orrange began work 10 years ago with the Department of Cardiology at LAC-USC Medical Center participating in ongoing research on the long-term outcome of patients with mitral stenosis who have undergone catheter balloon valvuloplasty and authored a publication in Circulation.

Dr. Orrange has been an invited lecturer for internal medicine and psychiatry residents on Depression and Anxiety Disorders in Primary Care as well as Women's Health issues. Dr. Orrange also spends time at the USC Center for Diabetes West serving as the internist for juvenile and adult onset diabetics alongside Dr. Anne Peters Harmel.

Currently, Dr. Orrange is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric and General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine and has an active private practice in General Internal Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine.


Education
Master of Health Administration, Public Health, Johns Hopkins Univer, 1992
Doctor of Medicine, Medicine, USC School of Medicine, 1998

Internships
UC San Diego Medical Center, 1998 - 1999

Residencies
UC San Diego Medical Center, 1999 - 2001

Board Certification
Internal Medicine, 2001

Professional Society Memberships
American Medical Association
American College of Physicians
Society of General Internal Medicine

Clinical Interests
Internal Medicine