TFC Thyroid Webinars
Watch the recording of these events.
2023-2024 Webinars
The Panel
Thyroid Cancer Patient Panel
with Dr. Sana Ghaznavi
November 26, 2023
Dr. Sana Ghaznavi is an academic endocrinologist whose practice focuses on the management of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancers. She completed her medical school at the University of Alberta, an endocrinology fellowship at the University of Calgary, and a thyroid cancer fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York city. She now works as a clinical assistant professor within the Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, at the University of Calgary, with a cross appointment to the Department of Oncology.
Watch this Webinar: Thyroid Cancer Patient Panel – Dr. Sana Ghaznavi
2022-2023 Webinars
Dr. Jesse Pasternak
Ultrasound-guided Thermal Ablation of Thyroid Nodules
Dr. Jesse Pasternak
May 14, 2023
Dr Jesse Pasternak is an endocrine surgeon specializing in the surgical management of thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal tumors. After obtaining his undergraduate degree at McGill University, he completed his medical school and residency at McMaster University in Hamilton. He then moved to San Francisco, California where he trained as an Orlo Clark Fellow in Endocrine Surgery and Oncology at UCSF.
Dr Pasternak also completed a master’s degree (MPH) at Harvard University with a focus in epidemiology. As a surgeon at the University Health Network, his clinical focus is minimally invasive endocrine surgery. As a researcher, he studies clinical endocrine surgery and health outcomes.
Watch this Webinar: Ultrasound-guided Thermal Ablation of Thyroid Nodules – Dr. Jesse Pasternak
Dr. Hernan Franco Lopez
Hashimoto’s Disease
Dr. Hernan Franco Lopez
April 30, 2023
Dr. Franco Lopez is an Endocrinology fellow at Western University in London, Ontario. He completed his medical school at the University of Ottawa, and his internal medicine training at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has an interest in general Endocrinology, in particular Thyroid and Adrenal diseases. He is also interested in Medical Education and Health Advocacy, which are important in a field of chronic disease such as Endocrinology.
Watch this Webinar: Hashimoto’s’ Disease – Dr. Hernan Franco Lopez
Dr. Antonio Bianco
Rethinking Hypothyroidism
Dr. Antonio Bianco
April 16, 2023
Dr. Antonio Bianco is a professor of medicine and a member of the Committee on Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition at the University of Chicago, where he runs a laboratory funded by the National Institutes of Health to study thyroid hormones. He is also a former president of the American Thyroid Association.
Dr. Bianco will be speaking on his book “Rethinking Hypothyroidism: Why Treatment Must Change and What Patients Can Do”.
Watch this Webinar: Rethinking Hypothyroidism – Dr. Antonio Bianco
Graves’ Disease
Dr. Anna Liu
November 27, 2022
Dr. Anna Liu is an Endocrinology fellow at Western University in London, Ontario with an interest in medical education. She completed her medical school training at the University of Ottawa, and general internal medicine training at Western University. Dr. Liu gave a presentation on Graves’ Disease, followed by a Q&A session.
Watch this Webinar: Graves’ Disease – Dr. Ana Liu
2021-2022 Webinars
Dr. Hernan Franco Lopez
Hypothyroidism and Thyroid Replacement Therapy
Dr. Hernan Franco Lopez
February 18, 2022
Dr. Franco Lopez is an Endocrinology fellow at Western University in London, Ontario. He completed his medical school at the University of Ottawa, and his internal medicine training at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He has an interest in general Endocrinology, in particular Thyroid and Adrenal diseases. He is also interested in Medical Education and Health Advocacy, which are important in a field of chronic disease such as Endocrinology.
Watch this Webinar: Hypothyroidism and Thyroid Replacement Therapy – Dr. Hernan Franco Lopez
Dr. Sana Ghaznavi
Management of Thyroid Nodules
Dr. Sana Ghaznavi
November 21, 2021
Dr. Sana Ghaznavi is an academic endocrinologist whose practice focuses on the management of thyroid nodules and thyroid cancers. She completed her medical school at the University of Alberta, an endocrinology fellowship at the University of Calgary, and a thyroid cancer fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York city. She now works as a clinical assistant professor within the Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, at the University of Calgary, with a cross appointment to the Department of Oncology.
Watch this Webinar: Management of Thyroid Nodules – Dr. Sana Ghaznavi
Dr. Kelsey Roelofs
Thyroid Eye Disease
Dr. Kelsey Roelofs
April 28, 2022
Dr. Kelsey Roelofs completed her medical education and residency training at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Following this, she embarked on a one year ocular oncology fellowship at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She is currently completing an American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published over 40 peer-review papers, 19 textbook chapters and was the 2021 recipient of the Bartley R. Frueh Research Award.
Watch this Webinar: Thyroid Eye Disease – Dr. Kelsey Roelofs
Panel of Patients and Doctor
Dr. Deric Morrison
March 7, 2021
Dr. Morrison is an Endocrinologist and Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Dept. of Medicine, at the University of Western Ontario in London ON.
Panelists:
- Kim McNally in Kingston, ON, currently Vice President of TFC;
- Lauri Martin in Strome, AB, a volunteer on our Help Line;
- Tatyana Medvedyeva from Mississauga, ON, Director of Public Relations.
Watch this Webinar: Doctor and Panel of Patients – Dr. Deric Morrison