Dr. Sharon Hook is a nearly lifelong Floridian, born and raised in Tampa. She attended the University of South Florida for an undergraduate degree in Biology, medical school
in North Miami Beach at Nova Southeastern University of the Health Sciences, followed by an internship at Suncoast Hospital in Largo. Her residency took her to the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and she then spent a year at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx for cytopathology. She has worked at the Cleveland Clinic, University of Miami, Malcolm Randall Veterans Administration in Gainesville and, finally, for the last 21 years at North Florida Regional Medical Center. At North Florida she works as a general pathologist, cytopathologist and director of the blood bank.
She has a total of 16 years in the Tissue Banking industry and now lends her expertise to Merakris where she will serve as Medical Director.