Sheri Carson
Sheri Carson is a board certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner with over 22 years’ experience in pediatrics. Dr. Carson currently works as a Clinical Assistant Professor at The University of Arizona and a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Northwest Urgent Care in Tucson, AZ. She has worked in a variety of pediatric settings throughout her career, including private practice, a military clinic, urgent care, and a school health care program for uninsured children. She also served as Nursing Director at a prestigious year-round medical camp for children with chronic and life-threatening illness.
In 2012, Dr. Carson joined her city’s Child Abuse Review and Education Committee, which ignited her passion for preventing, recognizing, and treating child physical abuse. During her doctoral studies, Dr. Carson developed and implemented an evidence-based, comprehensive child physical abuse screening program in a local emergency department. She published the results of her project in the Journal of Emergency Nursing and is engaged in consulting with hospitals across the country to help them create and implement their own child abuse screening programs. Dr. Carson has spoken at several local, state, and national conferences regarding screening for child physical abuse and is advocating for health policy mandating child physical abuse screening in all emergency departments. In recognition of her efforts, Dr. Carson was named the 2018 Pediatric Nurse Practitioner of the Year by the Arizona Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and awarded the 2020 Alex Stuetze Pediatric Nursing Memorial Award by the Tucson Nurses’ Week Foundation.
