Dr. Sherrell gains tremendous satisfaction from helping patients disabled by arthritic joints regain pain-free function and return to their livelihoods. When measured in terms of restoring a patient’s qualify of life, he believes that total hip replacement surgery is the most successful operation in the history of medicine.

Dr. Sherrell’s decision to become a physician was greatly influenced by his early love of life sciences, his desire to help people, and his parents. His mother worked as a nurse in the Knoxville area for 40 years, and she shared her values in the area of patient care with him. From his father, he learned “how to fix almost anything.”

Dr. Sherrell is married to Sydney Wallace Sherrell, an orthopaedic nurse practitioner and the granddaughter of retired KOC surgeon Dr. Sidney Wallace. Dr. Sherrell enjoys spending time with his four children, bass fishing on the numerous lakes and rivers in East Tennessee, and attending sporting events with his family. The Sherrells are especially fans of the University of Tennessee Volunteers.