Angela Sharkey, associate dean for faculty affairs and professional development and a professor of pediatrics at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri, is one of two finalists for the post.
Klea Bertakis is a professor and chair of the department of family and community medicine at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento. She is one of four candidates for dean of the Georgia medical school.
Dr. Drisko worked as a dental hygienist for 16 years before earning a doctor of dental medicine degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. From 2003 to 2013 she served as dean of the College of Dental Medicine at Georgia Regents University in Augusta.