Sharad Kohli, M.D.

Sharad Kohli, M.D., has an interest in working with people who have been medically underserved as well as advancing health justice. He received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma and completed a rural family medicine residency at Cascades East Family Medicine in Klamath Falls, Oregon. He has spent over 15 years working with federally qualified health centers in both urban and rural settings in California and Texas. He previously served as the director of clinical affairs of the Texas Association of Community Health Centers, where he provided clinical support to the more than 75 federally qualified health centers throughout the state.

Kohli is also a family physician at People’s Community Clinic, a federally qualified health centers in Austin, and is strongly committed to looking upstream at factors that influence health. At People’s Community Clinic, he has helped develop an interprofessional pain management program, integrating numerous services, including behavioral health, acupuncture, yoga therapy, nutrition, substance use services, a medical-legal partnership, group medical visits and more.

Kohli is co-chair of the Integrative Health Policy Consortium, a nonprofit consisting of 28 organizations and institutions representing over 600,000 integrative health care professionals nationwide. Kohli was intimately involved in the growth and development of the national nonprofit Integrative Medicine for the Underserved, a multidisciplinary organization committed to affordable, accessible integrative health for all. He co-founded its annual conference, was a member of its founding board of directors and created and chaired its policy committee. He received the UR4US Award in 2019, the organization’s highest honor, recognizing his contributions over the years and currently sits on the advisory board.