About Carron Cherrie

Carron Cherrie graduated from Wayne State University with Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Nursing. She became ANCC Board Certified as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in child and adolescent mental health in 1979. She has maintained board certification as a Psychiatric Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist.

Early in her career Carron worked in the Detroit Medical Center in the Adult Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic. She then joined an interdisciplinary team to open a 40 bed inpatient unit for adolescents. She hired, trained and provided in-service education for the nursing staff. She also treated children in the out-patient program. She opened a private practice and joined a task force for insurance reimbursement for nurse practitioners.

Carron relocated to Gainesville Florida in 1985 and became the manager of the children’s research unit at Shand’s Hospital at the University of Florida. She continued in leadership roles that included Director of Nursing of a child psychiatric inpatient hospital.

Carron began teaching nursing after graduation from college in Detroit, MI. She continued to teach nursing in community college nursing programs as well as university nursing programs. In 2007 Carron earned her Doctorate at University of South Florida in Applied Anthropology specializing in medical anthropology. She published her dissertation “Traumatic Loss and Transformative Life Experiences,” based on her deployment as a member of the advance team of Green Cross Traumatologists working with survivors of  the World Trade Center disaster on September 11th.