Biography

Sharon Gustowski, DO, MPH is a 2001 graduate of the University of North Texas Health Science Center- Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNTHSC-TCOM) and the School of Public Health. She completed a traditional rotating internship at Bay Area Corpus Christi Medical Center and residency training at the UNTHSC-TCOM in Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, where Jerry Dickey, D.O., F.A.A.O. was the program director.

She began a career in an academic medicine immediately after residency as a founding faculty member of the Touro University Nevada College of Osteopathic Medicine. She returned to Texas after seven years in Nevada, serving as Course Director for the Year 2 Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Courses at UNTHSC-TCOM.

In 2014, Dr. Gustowski returned to her hometown of San Antonio, Texas, to serve as the Chair of the Osteopathic Principles, Practices and Integration Department at the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine. Her osteopathic teaching focus is to preserve osteopathic history and to encourage more integration of OMT into clinical practice. She is also active in state and national osteopathic organizations.

She has a particular interest in providing osteopathic care to children and their families.