​Our Founder

Meet Dr. Sheri®

Dr. Sheri Prentiss, MD, MPH, CPE, FACPE, CSP®, is the founder and president of the LIVE Today Foundation. A physician, public health leader, international speaker, breast cancer survivor, and lymphedema survivor, she has dedicated her career to improving healthcare through compassionate leadership, patient advocacy, education, and systems change.

For more than two decades, Dr. Sheri served as a physician executive and healthcare leader, believing that medicine was not simply about treating disease—it was about caring for people.

After being diagnosed with breast cancer, Dr. Sheri underwent a partial mastectomy, lymph node dissection, chemotherapy, and radiation. Although she survived cancer, she later developed cancer-related lymphedema—a lifelong condition that ultimately ended her clinical medical career.

For the first time, she experienced healthcare not as the physician—but as the patient.

That perspective transformed everything.

As she navigated life with lymphedema, she met countless cancer survivors who were struggling to afford medically necessary compression garments. Others had never been educated about their risk for lymphedema or the importance of early detection and intervention. Many quietly carried the emotional burden of living with a visible chronic condition.

She realized no one should have to choose between paying their bills and managing their health.

That conviction became the foundation for LIVE Today.

Founded in 2017, the LIVE Today Foundation provides free medically necessary compression garments to under-resourced cancer patients and survivors living with cancer-related lymphedema throughout the United States. The foundation also works to increase awareness, improve access to care, educate healthcare professionals, and empower patients to become active participants in their own survivorship.

Everything the organization does is guided by one simple belief:

“Every survivor deserves the opportunity not simply to survive—but to LIVE Today.”

The Story Behind the Mission

Every nonprofit has a story.

LIVE Today’s story is deeply personal.

Journalist Aryana Hadjimohammadi recently featured Dr. Sheri’s journey from physician to patient—and ultimately to founder of the LIVE Today Foundation—in a profile that explores how life’s greatest challenges became her greatest purpose.