From staff reports
Beaufort Memorial has added two new board-certified providers to Beaufort Memorial Lowcountry Medical Group Specialty Care. Michael Sciarra, D.O., a gastroenterologist, and Marie Wilkinson, FNP-BC, a nurse practitioner, will see patients by appointment at the practice locations in both Beaufort and Okatie.
Fellowship trained, Sciarra specializes in performing routine and complex GI procedures as well as in treating chronic and acute GI disease.
Sciarra, who was born, raised, educated and trained as a physician in New Jersey, also had practiced in the state — 15 miles from where he grew up — for the entirety of his medical career before coming to the Lowcountry. In private practice at Riverview Gastroenterology in Edgewater since 1997, he was on the medical staff at three nearby medical centers; the director of the gastroenterology fellowship program at Hackensack Meridian/Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen and Hackensack; and an associate professor at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York City.
He earned his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Osteopathic Medicine (now known as Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine) in New Brunswick, then completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in gastroenterology at St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark.
Wilkinson comes with in-depth experience in the provision of urgent and emergency care. At Lowcountry Medical’s gastroenterology practice, she works to promote patients’ digestive health, assisting its board-certified gastroenterologists and advanced practice providers with clinical assessment and pre- and post-operative care.
Most recently, she had served as a nurse practitioner at Tampa General Hospital Urgent Care in Florida and assisted in the opening of the Clinical Decision Unit in TGH’s emergency department, overseeing care for patients who were not yet ready for transfer or discharge.
The Delaware native holds both a Master of Science in Nursing with a family nurse practitioner specialty and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Delaware in Newark.
