Nora W. Coffey is a women's health advocate, activist, and educator. She founded the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation in 1982.

Career

Coffey has lectured in the United States and Europe. She has been a guest lecturer at medical schools, nursing schools for undergraduate, and graduate programs. She has presented papers to Women and Gender Studies Conferences and women’s health organizations. She has also been interviewed by ''

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, and '' Good Morning America''. Interviews with Coffey have appeared in the ''

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,'' ''Ms. Magazine,'' and others. She has testified at

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hearings and works with the FDA to ensure the reporting of adverse events of

uterine artery embolization Uterine artery embolization is a procedure in which an interventional radiologist uses a catheter to deliver small particles that block the blood supply to the uterine body. The procedure is done for the treatment of uterine fibroids and adenomyos ...

. Coffey founded the Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation in 1982. The foundation is the only independent, nonprofit organization solely dedicated to the alternatives to, and the aftermath of hysterectomy. Rick Schweikert's "on becoming," which had its Off-Broadway debut in 2004, was directed by Coffey. It was subsequently seen in 23 cities and produced in Washington, D.C. in 2005. It received praise from

Barbara Seaman Barbara Seaman (September 11, 1935 – February 27, 2008) was an American author, activist, and journalist, and a principal founder of the women's health feminism movement. Early years Seaman, whose parents, Henry J. Rosner and Sophie Kimels, ...

, health advocate, and author of ''The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth''. Coffey is working toward a sustainable legal remedy to end hysterectomy without the information requisite to informed consent. Coffey and Schweikert’s book, ''The H Word'', about the physical, political, economic, and social environment surrounding hysterectomy, was published in 2009. Coffey was honored by the organization Women's Way of Philadelphia at their 32nd Annual Powerful Voice Awards on May 6, 2009.

References

External links

New York Times Article "Rate of Hysterectomies Puzzles Experts"

* ttp://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-hysterectomy15aug15,0,2963288.column?coll=la-home-health Los Angeles Times Article "When does hysterectomy go too far?"br>Boston Globe

FDA testimony

Women's Way
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