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HEALTHCARE BACKGROUND
Sherry has over 25 years of experience working as a healthcare
professional. She began her professional career as a speech and
language pathologist before earning her master's degree in
audiology. As an audiologist, she specialized in differential
diagnosis of the multiply handicapped and auditory perceptual
disorders. She was the Director of Audiology for both the West
Seneca Developmental Center in New York and Centinela Hospital
Medical Center in Southern California. A former faculty member
of the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she
taught audiology clinical practice, Sherry was nominated by her
students for the university's Distinguished Teacher Award.
Sherry has also taught classes for older adults on the ins and
outs of adjusting to aging ears with or without hearing aids.
Sherry moved into the home health care arena wearing many hats
over the 15 years she's worked for Assisted Healthcare Services
- Director of Business Development, Branch Manager, Director of
Human Resources, and Executive Director of Assisted Home
Hospice.
Sherry keeps her finger on the pulse of the changes, advances
and issues facing our aging society.
COMEDY AND SHOWBIZ
Sherry wrote and performed her first stand-up routine when she
was 11 years old for her 6th grade class talent show. She has
performed stand-up comedy at popular venues such as the Comedy
Store and The Improv in Los Angeles and at various clubs on the
Midwest comedy circuit. She has been in two professional improv
comedy troupes and has written and directed several sketch
comedy shows on California stages. She has been in numerous
plays in her career and is currently a company member of the
Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre. She is also a song
lyricist and has an album of comedy songs, "Songs of a
Misanthrope." Some of her lyrics can be found on the listening
room page. She has also written lyrics for the romantic comedy,
"e-love: a musical.com/edy," currently playing at dinner
theatres around the country. In 2008, she was awarded Best
Director for her direction of Terrence McNally's, "Prelude and
Liebestod," by the Valley theatre League's Artistic Director
Award. She is still an active performer in the club scene in Los
Angeles.
Sherry infuses every presentation and performance with fun and
energy creating standing room only crowds.
FITNESS
Sherry is a certified fitness trainer who specializes in baby
boomers and plus size women. She is also a telephone fitness
coach. She can find you anywhere in the world there is phone to
make sure you are staying on track with your fitness program.
Check out her blog,
www.FitAtAnyAgeAndAnySize.com.
She motivates sedentary individuals to become physically active
and inspired to make lifestyle changes.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Back in the 80's she was one of the original AIDS educators for
an organization called Nechama, doing AIDS education for
teenagers in local high schools. This was back in the time when
people still feared casual contact could be a source of AIDS
contagion.
Sherry has been a regular fundraiser for the Revlon Run/Walk for
Women - Los Angeles, and the Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk
- Los Angeles.
Sherry has also served on the Outreach Committee for Special
Olympics, talking with the parents of developmentally delayed
children about the benefits of Special Olympics to encourage
them to allow their children to participate. In addition, she is
a Global Messenger Coach, training developmentally delayed
individuals to be public speakers in their own right. Sherry can
be found coaching athletes for Special Olympics every Saturday
morning. It is her favorite time of the week.
PROFESSIONAL SPEAKING
Sherry has been speaking from the platform for over 20 years.
In addition to her experience as an educator, she has addressed
national conferences, such as the National Private Duty
Association and been a guest speaker for Corporate Wellness
program Lunch 'n' Learns, such as the Hilton Corporation. She
originated the Speakers Forum for Assisted Healthcare Services
and has spoken on a variety of healthcare topics for local
service clubs, such as Sertoma International, Soroptomist
International and Kiwanis. She has done educational
presentations on hearing loss and hearing aids for the family
support groups and nursing staff of numerous skilled nursing
facilities. A member of the Speakers Bureau for the Alzheimer's Association
Southland Chapter, Sherry is the Chair of their Speakers'
Advisory Board and sits on the chapter's Program Committee.
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