Kerry Sheridan
Kerry Sheridan is a reporter and co-host of All Things Considered at WUSF Public Media.
Prior to joining WUSF, she covered international news, health, science, space and environmental issues for Agence France-Presse from 2005 to 2019, reporting from the Middle East bureau in Cyprus, followed by stints in Washington and Miami.
Kerry earned her master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2002, and was a recipient of the Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for Cultural Reporting.
She got her start in radio news as a freelancer with WFUV in the Bronx in 2002. Since then, her stories have spanned a range of topics, including politics, baseball, rocket launches, art exhibits, coral reef restoration, life-saving medical research, and more.
She is a native of upstate New York, and currently lives with her husband and two children in Sarasota.
You can reach Kerry via email at sheridank@wusf.org, on Twitter @kerrsheridan or by phone at 813-974-8663.
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Throughout the month of May, WUSF will feature the voices of local teachers as they describe the challenges they face, in their own words. -
After a state legislative session that produced a series of new laws regarding education, WUSF is airing teachers' voices, in their own words, about what they see as their main challenges.
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Throughout the month of May, WUSF will feature the voices of local teachers, as they describe the challenges they face, in their own words.
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The 34-year-old former softball catcher, who is the first woman to manage a minor league baseball team, led the Tampa Tarpons to a 9-6 win in Friday night's season opener against the Lakeland Flying Tigers.
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There is no easy test or treatment for nontuberculosis mycobacteria, or NTM. It can be transmitted through the water supply, but little is known about exactly where it lurks.
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After losing two patients, one after another, Alicia Sgroi wrote an essay about the experience in the American Journal of Nursing. Her essay is titled "What a Time to Become a Nurse."
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The research points to a range of causes of death that can strike in the year after a patient is hospitalized.
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Florida reports its first case of the omicron variant, at James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital in TampaThe patient is experiencing mild symptoms, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
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When it comes to receiving organ transplants, patients are not usually judged on prior behavior, but some doctors are questioning whether unvaccinated COVID patients should qualify for new lungs.
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Despite a wide variety of challenges from job loss to distrust of the establishment, the success the Hispanic community has seen could help other communities tackle vaccine hesitancy.
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Dr. Washington Hill has worked as an OB-GYN for more than 50 years, and specializes in high-risk pregnancies.
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The coronavirus pandemic and vaccine rollout have magnified inequities in Florida’s health care system, advocates say.
