User:MaryBB2009/Sherrie Palm

Sherrie J Palm
Occupation	Founder/Director APOPS
Organization	Pelvic Organ Prolapse Support
Website	www.SherriePalm.com

Sherrie Palm, born November 17, 1953, is the Founder/CEO/Executive Director of Association for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Support (APOPS), a POP Key Opinion Leader, author of award winning book Pelvic Organ Prolapse: The Silent Epidemic, a speaker on multiple aspects of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) quality of life impact, and an international women's pelvic health advocate. Sherrie’s points of focus are generating global pelvic organ prolapse awareness, developing guidance and support structures for women navigating POP, and bridge building within POP healthcare, research, academia, and industry toward the evolution of POP directives.

Biography

Born into a blue collar family with a truck driver father and housewife mother, Palm's early childhood was spent in a subdivision on the far south side of Chicago. Palm's family moved to a farm in mid-state Wisconsin when she was 12, where her love of the countryside became pronounced. Palm continues to reside in Wisconsin. Palm's adult life was a mixture of work as a bookkeeper and continuing classes to advance her knowledge of all aspects of life evolution.

Health

• MS

Author

BOOKS:

• Pelvic Organ Prolapse: The Silent Epidemic 2nd Edition. (October 2012)
• Pelvic Organ Prolapse: The Silent Epidemic 1st Edition. (April 2009)

ABSRACTS/POSTERS/ACADEMIC PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS:

• December 2015; Abstract/poster. Global Evolution of Pelvic Organ Prolapse Health Directives: Magnifying Patient Voice to Illuminate Diagnostic Development.

• July 2014; Abstract/poster. The Reality of Life with Pelvic Organ Prolapse: Mobile App Data Capture to Illuminate Direction.

• October 2013; Academic paper. The Value of Sustainable Protocol to Address Uterine Prolapse in Nepal: Healthcamp, Education and Employment Synergy. https://ejournals.unm.edu/index.php/nsc/article/view/3133
• April 2013; Abstract/poster. The Cryptic Damage of Closet Incontinence: Shifting Recognition to Shrink Stigma.

ARTICLES:

Awards and Honors

• AARP I Heart Caregivers Portraits of Care, November 2015
• Certificate of Congressional Recognition from Paul Ryan, November 2015
• Citation by the Wisconsin Senate, November 2015
• Golden Pelvis Award 2013
• USA Book News, Health 2010
• USA Book News Women's Health 2010
• National Best Book Awards 2009

Executive Director Compensation

Sherrie Palm does not receive compensation as Executive Director of Association for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Support.

Sherrie Palm Quotes

"Pelvic organ prolapse is seldom life threatening, but it is always life altering."

"Pelvic organ prolapse is not an American women’s health issue, it is a global women’s health pandemic."

"Awareness and acknowledgement of pelvic organ prolapse is one of the greatest challenges women will address in the on-going battle to attain health balance for our gender."

"Women need to know that POP is a health concern, not a roadblock."

"It is my hope that as we continue to do what women do best-network, guide, and nurture each other-POP will soon become common knowledge."

"What all women with POP want, no matter what age, financial status, or country of origin, is simply to feel well again."

"The real story about POP is not that it exists, it’s about how it impacts women’s lives and that after 4000 years on medical record, it remains stuffed in the closet."

"Women with POP stand as one, waiting for the world to wake up."

"The most significant POP stigma we have to overcome is what is in our own minds."

"The real story about POP is not that it exists, it’s about how it impacts women’s lives."

"Visionaries utilize roadblocks as stepping stones to generate change."

"When pelvic organ prolapse starts being talked about out loud as comfortably by patients, clinicians, and industry as diabetes or blood pressure, we'll know we've overcome POP stigma."

"Discovery upon diagnosis is the status quo for the majority of women with POP."

"Awareness of the reality of pelvic organ prolapse will only occur when women share what they know with others."

"Pelvic organ prolapse encompasses 5 types as well as 4 grades of severity; every woman’s body is as different on the inside as it is on the outside, has a bit of uniqueness to it, making it difficult to wrap a single set of boundaries around the individual treatment options."

"All women with POP want is to feel normal again."