Janet Evatt
Program Manager
322 Nursing Building
Prisma Health, Greenville, S.C.
cushr@clemson.edu
Our Team
Leadership
Windsor Westbrook Sherrill, Ph.D.
Dr. Windsor Westbrook Sherrill is a Provost’s distinguished professor of public health sciences and senior associate vice president for research. She received a doctoral degree in Health Policy from Brandeis University and graduate degrees in health administration and business administration from University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Sherrill’s research spans diverse disciplines, including medical and health management education, health finance and policy, and the evaluation of health services and health education programs. Her research initiatives have garnered more than $45 million in external funding and have been published in journals such as Academic Medicine, BMC Health Services Research, BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, the Journal of Health Administration Education, Public Health Reports, and Preventing Chronic Disease. She has taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level in topics such as health care management, health care systems, and health care finance. Dr. Sherrill is the 2012 recipient of the Class of ’39 Award for Excellence and is a SC Liberty Fellow.
Kerry Smith, Ph.D.
Dr. Kerry Smith is a professor in the Department of Genetics and Biochemistry and director of the Eukaryotic Pathogens Innovation Center (EPIC) at Clemson University. He earned his Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine after graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Smith’s research focuses on fungal pathogenesis, specifically Cryptococcus neoformans, a leading cause of fungal meningitis. His work on host-pathogen interactions and enzyme targets for antifungal therapies has been widely published and funded by numerous grants. As the Campus Research Director for the Prisma Health Education and Research Institute, he fosters collaborative health research between Clemson and Prisma Health, advancing applied research with clinical impact. Dr. Smith has received the Clemson Research, Scholarship, and Artistic Achievement Award, among other honors, and leads NIH-funded research training programs for medical students in infectious disease research.
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