Thyroid Specialists in Toronto & Ontario
There are many ways to get specialist, quality care for thyroid disease in the Toronto area and other parts of Ontario. A first step may be to search the website of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario http://www.cpso.on.ca/docsearch/ for endocrinologists. (Endocrinology is the specialty that deals with thyroid disease.)
Since this search facility can sometimes be imprecise, a tip for finding all available Toronto endocrinologists or thyroid specialists here is to start by not selecting any specific geographic area in your search. Then be sure to click “Specialists” and
then select “Endocrinology and Metabolism" in the drop down box.” Scroll through the results: Many of the
doctors that show up are Toronto endocrinologists. Although some listed here have a
notation that they are not accepting new patients, it may be helpful to double-check with your physician. You will need a doctor’s referral to see any specialist in Ontario. Usually a referring physician is a family doctor but may also be a gynecologist or thyroid surgeon.
Another source of information on thyroid specialists or endocrinologists is the LMC Endocrinology Centres located in several areas of Ontario including Toronto and the GTA. See http://www.lmc.ca/html/aboutus.html (Click on "specialists" at top.)
In addition, Dr. Daniel Drucker, a thyroid specialist who will be leaving clinical practice next year to concentrate on research, provides a list of Toronto endocrinologists for those with thyroid cancer and thyroid nodules. See http://www.mythyroid.com/drdruckersoffice.html
U of T Endocrinology faculty at the University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital:
http://www.endocrinology.utoronto.ca/faculty/sites/uhn.htm
U of T Endocrinology faculty at St. Michael's Hospital:
http://www.endocrinology.utoronto.ca/faculty/sites/stmikes.htm
U of T Endocrinology faculty at Sunnybrook Hospital:
http://www.endocrinology.utoronto.ca/faculty/sites/sunnybrook.htm
U of T Endocrinology faculty at Women's College Health Sciences Centre:
http://www.endocrinology.utoronto.ca/faculty/sites/womens.htm
Not to be forgotten are family physicians who in many cases can provide most or all the necessary care, especially if he or she is knowledgeable and experienced with thyroid patients. Sometimes however, due to doctor shortages, the first challenge for some, is just to find a family doctor in the first place who can then either give treatment or refer to a specialist. (For more information on family physicians see The College of Family Physicians of Canada.) But if your thyroid condition is complex or you have very persistent symptoms or questions beyond the scope of your family doctor, you should ask to be referred to a thyroid specialist or endocrinologist.
Several useful links for those without family physicians or suitable drug benefits are as follows: Health Care Connect: http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/ms/healthcareconnect/public/default.aspx and the Trillium drug program for Ontario residents: http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/public/pub/drugs/trillium.html
Although we cannot recommend specific endocrinologists, we can provide a list of those endocrinologists and other physicians or health professionals who have addressed our chapter public education meetings on thyroid disease in the past. (See list below.) We have also provided some summaries of selected meetings or related articles. (Please note that some of these doctors may no longer be practicing in the Toronto area.)
Past Medical Speakers at Toronto Chapter Public Education Meetings on Thyroid Disease (In alphabetic order. Some summaries can be downoaded here.)
DR. MICHAEL ABBOTT, Cardiologist (1983)
- November 26, 1983: The Thyroid and the Heart
DAYNA ALBERT, R.P.Dt., Clinical Dietician, Princess Margaret Hospita (1988)
- May 28, 1988: Nutrition and Health – Making the Right Choices
DR.. A.G. AWAD, Chief of Psychiatry, Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto (2010)
- June 11, 1983, The Thyroid and the Mind and Emotions
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- April 7, 1990: Thyroid Disorders and Mental Functions
DR. JERALD BAIN, Endocrinologist, Mount Sinai Hospital (1992)
- October 31, 1992: Thyroid, Fertility and Sex
DR. WILLIAM BARTLE, Pharmacologist, Sunnybrook Hospital, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Toronto (1998)
- March 21, 1998: Understanding the Treatment of Thyroid Disorders with medication
- May, 2003: Thyroid Medications: Questions and Answers
DR. ARNOLD BAYLEY, Endocrinologist, Member of Bone and Mineral Group, University of Toronto (1995)
-October 21, 1995: Thyroxine Therapy does not produce Osteoporosis
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DR. DIANE BIRCH, Nutritionist (1982)
- May 1, 1982: Nutrition and Thyroid Disease
DR. GLEN BOGGIO: Chiropractor (1986)
- 1986: Maximizing general health to alleviate thyroid related symptoms
DR. ROSARIO BRIONES-URBINA, Endocrinologist, Sunnybrook and Women's (1998)
- November 21, 1998: The Importance of Thyroid Testing
DR. BRUCE BROOKS, Endocrinologist, Markham Stouffville Hospital (1994)
- April 9, 1994: Thyroid Lab Testing and Interpretation
- October 15, 1996: Understanding Thyroid Tests
DR GERARD N. BURROW, Endocrinologist, Physician in Chief, Toronto General Hospital (1988)
-May 9, 1981: The Thyroid Gland in Pregnancy and Human Development
-1988: Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy
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DR. JOHN Y.C. CHAN, Endocrinologist, Credit Valley Hospital Mississauga(1993)
- December 11, 1993: Lipid abnormalities in thyroid disease: Clinical Implications. OR What does thyroid disease have to do with cholesterol?
DR E.G. CROSS, Consultant,
Endocrinology, Sunnybrook Hospital, Director of Endocrinology and
Nuclear Medicine, Toronto East General Hospital (1992)
- November 14, 1981: What’s New In Thyroid Function Testing
- March 7, 1992: The Use of Radioactive Iodine
DR. DENIS DANEMAN, Chief Division of Endocrinology, Hospital for Sick Children (2001)
- January 23, 1986: Thyroid Disease in Childhood
- January 14, 1995: Hypothyroidism in Childeren and Adolescents: Symptoms and Treatment
- May 12, 2001: Thyroid Disease from Childhood to Adolescence
JOAN DAWSON, R.N., P.H.N., S.C.M. (UK)
- October 29, 1988: Doctor Patient Relations
DR. DANIEL J. DRUCKER,
Endocrinologist, Mount Sinai and Toronto General Hospital, Professor,
University of Toronto, Director of the Banting and Best Diabetes
Centre, University of Toronto (2010)
- March 16, 1991: Thyroid Disease and the Heart
- May 18, 1996: Possible Adverse Consequences of Inappropriate Thyroid Management
- June 20, 2000: Thyroid 2000: What’s New? (Panel member presenting new information on thyroid treatment and research)
DR. IVY FETTES, Director, Division of Endocrinology, Sunnybrook Hospital (2010)
- April 12, 1997: Thyroid Gland Enlargements and Nodules – Diagnosis and Treatment
- October 27, 2001: Hypothyroidism, Hyperthyroidism and Thyroid Nodules
- January 20, 2003: Thyroid disease: Questions and Answers
- January 17, 2004: Thyroid Disease in Women
- January 21, 2006: Ask an Expert: Thyroid Disease in Women
DR. JOANNE FRIEFELD, Endocrinologist, Peel Memorial Hospital (1990)
- May 26, 1990: Radiation and Thyroid Disease
DR. LESLIE M.C. GOLDENBERG, Geriatric Internist, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Mount Sinai Hospital (1989)
- April 8, 1989: Thyroid Disease – Clinical Features in Late Life
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DR. DAVID GREYSON, Head, Nuclear Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital (1988)
- September 17, 1988: Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Disorders – the Use of Radioisotopes
DR. CYRIL GRYFE, Medical Director, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care (1986)
- April 5, 1986, Is it Old Age or Is it Hypothyroidism
DR. TREVOR HANCOCK, Associate Medical Officer of Health for the Department of Public Health, Toronto (1985)
- September 28, 1985: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in the Next Decade
DR. ERNIE HEW, Anesthesiologist, Mount Sinai Hospital (1985)
- March 25, 1985: Anesthesia during Thyroid Surgery
DR. JEFFREY J. HURWITZ, Ophthalmologist in Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital (2010)
- June 12, 1982: Thyroid Eye Disease
- October 14, 1989, Thyroid Related Eye Problems
- May 6, 1995, Graves’ Eye Disease
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DR. RUSSELL T. JOFFE, Psychiatrist, The Clarke Institute of Psychiatry (1991)
November 30, 1991: The Thyroid and Psychiatric Illness
DR. HEATHER MORRIS, Gynecologist and Obstetrician, Women’s College Hospital (1983)
- April 16, 1983: Thyroid Disease in Pregnancy
DR. FRED ROSEN, Staff Endocrinologist, Scarborough General Hospital
- Dec 9, 1989, Monitoring your Thyroid Function
DR. M. SARA ROSENTHAL, Bioethicist, Author/Journalist (2010)
- September 24, 1994: Why I Wrote The Thyroid Sourcebook
DR WENDY ROSENTHALL, Endocrinologist, Trillium Health Centre (2006)
- September 16, 2006: Enlargement of the Thyroid Gland and Nodules: Diagnosis and Treatment
DR. RICKY KANEE SCHACHTER, Chief of Dermatology, Women’s College Hospital (1984)
-May 15, 1993: Skin Changes and Thyroid Disease
DR. DOUGLAS SCHATZ, Consultant in Endocrinology and Director of Nuclear Medicine, North York General Hospital (1988)
- December 3, 1988: Thyroid Disorders through the Life Cycle
DR. HOWARD SEIDEN, Family Physician (1982)
- September 29, 1982
DR, BERNARD SHAPIRO, Nuclear Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital (1984)
- March 17, 1984: Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound and Radiology in the Treatment and Diagnosis of Thyroid Disease
DR. NEIL SHEAR, Head of Dermatology at Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre (2010)
- March 23, 1983: The Skin and Thyroid Disease
DR. JAY SILVERBERG, Head, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sunnybrook Hospital (1987)
- April 1983, Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism
- April 4, 1987, The Management of Hypothyroidism
- March 12, 1994,Thyroid Disease, Questions and Answers
- October 25, 1997, Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Disease: Question and Answer Session
- March 18, 2000, T4 and T3 in the treatment of Hypothyroidism, Question and Answers
- September 13 2003, Treatment of Hypothyroidism, One Hormone or Two?
- January 15, 2005, Ask an Expert- All of Your Thyroid Questions
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DR. WILLIAM SINGER, FRCP(E), FRCP(C), FACP, Endocrinologist, St. Michael’s Hospital (1999)
- May 11, 1991: Thyroid Cancer
- June 26, 1999: Diagnosis of Thyroid Disorders in mid-life: The Importance of Periodic Screening
- June 20, 2000: Thyroid 2000: What’s New? (panel member discussing new developments in thyroid disease treatment and research)
- October 19, 2002: When, How, and How Often to Test for Thyroid Disease
- September 10, 2005: Common Questions about Thyroid Disease
DR. TYRONE TURNER, Ontario Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office (1984)
- October 20, 1984: Patient Advocacy for Patients in Psychiatric Care
DR. ROBERT VOLPE, OC, MD, FRCP(C), MACP, Endocrinologist, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto (2005)
- September 15, 1984: Immunology of Thyroid Disease
- May 28, 1994: Autoimmune Disease
- September 10, 1995: Graves’ Disease (panel member of Thyroid 1995: What’s New?)
- October 19, 1996: The Treatment of Graves’ Hyperthyroidism
- May 9, 1998: Hypothyroidism, Hyperthyroidism: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments
- April 21, 1999: The Spectrum of Thyroid Disease
- October 23, 1999: Unanswered Questions about Thyroid Disease
- June 20, 2000: Thyroid 2000: What’s New? (panel member discussing new developments in thyroid disease treatment and research)
- September 23, 2000: The Spectrum of Thyroid Disease
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DR. MARSHA WERB, Endocrinologist, Sunnybrook Hospital (2010)
December 3, 1994: Long-term Management of Thyroid Disease
DR THOMAS M.S. WOLEVER, Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto (1990)
- December 8, 1990: Your Thyroid, Diet and Cholesterol
