Kimberly A. Sherrill, M.D.

Psychiatrist

Dr. Sherrill attended medical school at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, graduating in 1980. She was 1 of 5 graduating seniors nominated by her classmates for the Gold-Headed Cane Award, the highest honor given to medical graduates.

She completed her psychiatry residency at Duke University Medical Center in 1984, then went on to do a fellowship, also at Duke, in Psychosomatic Medicine, followed by a second fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC Jaycee Burn Center in Burn Psychiatry. She was then accepted to the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UNC Chapel Hill, a two-year graduate-level program, and also completed a Master’s degree in Public Health Epidemiology.

She relocated to Winston-Salem, NC, and served on the faculty of Wake Forest University School of Medicine from 1988-1994. She then moved into public mental health work from 1994-2001, after which she worked in private practice for most of the rest of her career to the present, except for 4 years when she served as a contract psychiatrist at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

Dr. Sherrill worked at Arkansas Psychiatric Clinic from 2015 to 2019, then retired for three years. She returned part-time in 2022.

Dr. Sherrill enjoys working with a range of general psychiatric concerns, from depression to bipolar to anxiety disorders and PTSD. She has a warm and compassionate approach, creating a calm and safe atmosphere for individuals to open up about the concerns that they bring into the office. She combines medication management with supportive psychotherapy when needed to help ensure that the patient is treated as a whole person.