Cheryle Gartley

Simon's Founder: Cheryle B. Gartley

Cheryle B. Gartley is the founder and president of The Simon Foundation for Continence, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing public and professional awareness about incontinence. The Foundation brings information, educational materials and help to those who are incontinent, their families, and the health care professionals who provide their care.

Ms. Gartley is co-author of Managing Incontinence: A Guide to Living with Loss of Bladder Control, published in three languages. She edits The Informer, a quarterly newsletter about incontinence and served as creative director for the films The Solution Starts with You and A Matter of Choice.

Ms. Gartley has published in Japan, Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom, including articles in journals such as the Journal of Urological/ Nursing and Social Work Today. Articles about The Simon Foundation and her work have appeared in such national publications as Time Magazine, Good Housekeeping, and Ann Landers' column.

She has traveled extensively on behalf of people with incontinence, appearing on hundreds of radio and television talk shows internationally, including ABC's 20/20, People are Talking (San Francisco), Kelly and Company (Detroit), Good Morning Australia (Sydney), and network news in Japan, Canada, and Germany. She is a member of the International Continence Society, the Association of Continence Advisors (UK), and the Bladder Health Council of the American Foundation of Urologic Disease. She was selected as a panelist at the National Institutes of Health's Consensus Development Conference on Adult Urinary Incontinence.

Ms. Gartley has been recognized in: Outstanding Young Women of America, The World Who's Who of Women, and Who's Who in the Midwest. She had a BS in education and did her graduate work at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.