Company leader
Afser Shariff
Founder and Chief Medical Officer
Physicians Angels
Afser Shariff is founder and chief medical officer of Physicians Angels, which supplies remote medical scribes and virtual office staff to U.S. practices. He is an ear, nose and throat surgeon in Toledo, Ohio.
Training in Otolaryngology
He was raised in Fenton, Missouri, and earned his medical degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. He completed a general surgery internship and two years of neurosurgery, then an otolaryngology residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He is board certified and has led surgery and ENT departments at several facilities.
Founding Physicians Angels
He co-founded several healthcare ventures before starting Physicians Angels in 2007, and he designed its virtual scribe service. He ran it as chief executive, and in 2013 he joined S10 Health, an outsourced healthcare services company, as its chief medical officer. Kevin Brady is now president and chief executive of Physicians Angels.