Kerry Sheridan
Health News Florida ReporterKerry 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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The experiments marked the first time the environmentally safe, plant-based agents were used outside of the lab after about six years of development. -
Two key questions remain when it comes to the proposed red tide remedies: how to scale them up so they can treat large areas and how to pay for the treatments. -
Red tide comes from an organism that occurs naturally in the ocean. But people can make these harmful algal blooms worse. -
A former president of the American College of OB-GYNs along with a patient, nurse and midwife will talk about how to prevent these deaths, following the screening of the documentary "Aftershock." -
A chorus of professional singers and people with dementia perform Western-themed songs as a part of a support group for people dealing with memory loss.
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Key Chorale singers perform with the Sarasota Orchestra, Sarasota Ballet and even the circus. But they say some of their most meaningful work comes at practices singing with the Where Are My Keys choir. -
Dr. Gail Dudley, a retired osteopathic doctor in Hillsborough County: "We have a history of discrimination, which we can change, but not if we sugarcoat it and cover it up." -
The project began just before the pandemic in 2020 as an offshoot of an already established street medicine clinic run by USF faculty and students. -
Dr. Washington Hill is speaking on the issue this week at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's 43rd annual pregnancy meeting in San Francisco. -
Federal health authorities recommend a pneumococcal vaccine for children 2 and under, adults over 64, and people of all ages with certain medical conditions.
