Dr. Gurjeet Shokar

Biography

Gurjeet S. Shokar is the Interim Chair of the Department of Diagnostic Medicine and a Professor in the Department of Medical Education at Dell Medical School. He serves as the co-director of the primary care and family community medicine clerkship and as the medical director for primary care at Bluebonnet Trails Community Services in Central Texas. Previously, he was a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso for over 11 years, during which he also served on the board of directors for El Paso Health. Before his tenure in El Paso, Dr. Shokar was a Professor and Director of Medical Student Education Programs at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He has been recognized as a distinguished teaching professor and inducted into the Academy of Master Teachers at the University of Texas. He is a nationally known medical educator with numerous teaching and curriculum development awards at local, regional, and national levels, chaired the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine national conference on medical student education, and was appointed to a national task force for developing the family medicine clerkship curriculum. He completed his medical education at Dayanand Medical College in India and his family medicine residency training in the United States at St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas.

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