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Shantara Propst, DO, is an osteopathic physician now in the senior year of ophthalmology residency training. A Master's in Medical Clinical Sciences from USF preceded the DO degree from VCOM Carolinas, with subsequent residency at Howard University Hospital, an ACGME-accredited program now in its final year.

Day-to-day clinical work spans general adult eye care: refractions and routine examinations, dry eye and ocular surface disease, urgent ER consults, and the early surgical experience that residency provides. Resident-level scholarship has included a first-author case write-up of an uncommon vascular maculopathy presentation, published as "Jet Stream Maculopathy" in 2021, and qualitative health-services research on barriers to care for sexual and gender minority patients.

An ongoing thread of organizational service runs alongside the clinical training: humanism-in-medicine work serving as a Gold Humanism chapter co-chair, presidency of a campus SNMA chapter, and lead-organizer roles for the campus DEI Week and a regional Minorities-in-Medicine convening. In Dr. Propst's own words, "My approach to medicine is grounded in listening, cultural humility, and the belief that every patient deserves care that respects the whole person in front of me. I want every visit to feel like a partnership, not a transaction." Dr. Propst welcomes patients in the Washington, DC area.