Sherrie Perkins, MD, PhD, is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where she held the C. Scott and Dorothy E. Watkins Endowed Chair honoring Ernst J. Eichwald, MD, from May 2002 to May 2005. Perkins is also medical director of the Hematopathology Laboratory at ARUP.

At Huntsman Cancer Institute, Perkins diagnoses and cares for patients with lymphomas and hematologic (blood and bone) disorders. She also works with the Bone Marrow Transplant Program. She is involved in translational research to identify important markers in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), with a primary focus on pediatric NHL. Perkins is the pathology reviewer for all currently open Children's Oncology Group (COG) NHL clinical trials; she also directs biology studies for the COG NHL committee.

Perkins received her doctoral degree from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and her medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. A residency in anatomic pathology at Washington University followed. Perkins has attended workshops and given presentations nationwide. She publishes extensively and served as referee for scientific publications that include the American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Endocrinology, Journal of Pediatric Pathology, and Modern Pathology. She holds appointments with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists CCE Council on Hematology and the Hematopathology Society Fellowship Education Committee.