Sharon Terry

Sharon F. Terry is President and CEO of PXE International and Genetic Alliance, an enterprise engaging individuals, families, and communities to transform health. As ‘just a Mom’ with a graduate degree in theology, she cofounded PXE International, a research advocacy organization for the genetic condition pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), in response to the diagnosis of PXE in her two children in 1994.

She is the author of 150 peer-reviewed papers, of which 30 are clinical PXE studies. Her story is the topic of her TED Talk and TED Radio Hour. In her focus at the forefront of consumer participation in genetic research, services and policy, she serves in a leadership role on many of the major international and national organizations. Terry is an Ashoka Fellow. She is an avid student and facilitator of Gestalt Awareness Practice. Her joy in life is her daughter and son, their wives, and her granddaughter.