Staff writer

Priya Sharma, NP

NP · Nurse Practitioner · GLP-1 specialty clinic

Senior staff writer covering side effects, access, insurance, and regulatory news.

9+

Years experience

17

Articles

4

Specialties

Writer

Editorial role

About

Priya Sharma is a senior staff writer at Health Portal focused on the practical access side of GLP-1 medications — side-effect management, insurance and prior authorization, regulatory news, and the FDA approval pipeline.

She is a board-certified nurse practitioner with clinical experience in a GLP-1 specialty clinic and additional training in sleep medicine. Her writing emphasizes turning regulatory and pharmacologic complexity into specific patient actions: which appeal documentation wins, when to call vs. when to wait, how to interpret a new FDA proposed rule, what the recently-approved drug means for your existing prescription.

Editorial approach: news content needs both speed and accuracy. Every regulatory page on Health Portal includes a dated "current status" banner and a links-to-primary-sources block (FDA, Federal Register, CMS) so readers can verify our interpretation against the original document.

Specialties

  • GLP-1 prescribing
  • Insurance navigation
  • Health policy
  • Sleep medicine

Education

  • MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner—University of Pennsylvania(2017)
  • BSN—Emory University(2014)
  • Postgrad cert., Sleep Medicine—American Academy of Sleep Medicine(2022)

Affiliations & memberships

  • Member · American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
  • Member · The Obesity Medicine Association

Articles by Priya Sharma

17 written articles on Health Portal.