Kerry L. Clark is a Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the Department of Public Health, University of North Florida. He graduated from Western Kentucky University in 1992, followed by his M.P.H. in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health in 1993 and his Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of South Carolina School of Public Health in 1996. Dr. Clark has studied Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases in the southeastern United States for the past 29 years. His studies have involved ecological investigations of Lyme Borrelia in vertebrates and ticks, as well as studies of tickborne infections in humans. His current studies are focused on obtaining additional evidence of the presence and magnitude of Lyme disease in the South; further optimizing DNA-based tests to identify Lyme infection in humans, animals, and ticks; and proving the existence of "chronic Lyme disease" as a persistent, sometimes treatment-resistant infection.
