June is Thyroid Awareness Month in Canada!
Celebrating our 45th anniversary!
The Thyroid Foundation of Canada, a non-profit registered volunteer organization and charity, was founded in 1980 by Diana Meltzer Abramsky, a thyroid patient from Kingston, Ontario, with the assistance of endocrinologist, Dr. Jack Wall. She created the very first thyroid foundation for patients in the world. Before 1980 there was no lay organization in the world of its type. TFC has been used as a model to form thyroid foundations in other countries around the world.
This year, to celebrate our anniversary, we have our very own song about thyroid disease on YouTube to help promote thyroid awareness – see Working on the Thyroid Line.
We also started a new section in our website called “Pioneers!” This section will showcase all those volunteers whose contributions helped make TFC a success!
If you know of key players such as National Presidents, Chapter Presidents and others, please forward your 200-300 word write-up and photo of the individual to us at info@thyroid.ca and we will add it to this section.
