Dr. Sharma graduated from the University of Saskatchewan Medical School prior to pursuing his residency training in Radiation Oncology at the University of Manitoba. He then completed the combined research/clinical Nancy K. Welker Fellowship in Advanced Radiation Modalities (proton radiotherapy, hyperthermia and GammaPod) at the University of Maryland in Baltimore where he served as a Visiting Instructor.
He worked as a staff Radiation Oncologist at Methodist University, Baptist Memorial and Saint Francis (Bartlett) Hospitals in Memphis, Tennessee where he specialized in treating GU, GI and Breast cancers with a secondary and research focus on SBRT/SABR and MRI guided radiotherapy. While there, he established a prostate SBRT program. He also served as Associate Director of the Radiation Oncology Residency Program at the University of Tennessee where he was an Assistant Professor.
Dr. Sharma has completed a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the Harvard University, T.H Chan School of Public Health.
He currently works as a Radiation Oncologist at the Central Alberta Cancer Centre in Red Deer, where he treats GU, GI and thoracic malignancies, with secondary focus on palliative radiotherapy, SBRT/SABR and sarcoma. He established Alberta’s second prostate SBRT/SABR program in March of 2022 and also serves as Chairman of the Central Alberta Cancer Centre GI Disease Site Group.