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Endocrinology

Education
  
University of Toronto

Name
  
Paul Walfish

Alma mater
  
University of Toronto


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Notable awards
  
Order of Canada, Order of Ontario

Institutions
  
Mount Sinai Hospital

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Paul Gerald Walfish, CM OOnt is a Canadian endocrinologist "whose research in the area of thyroid physiology and pathology has contributed to improved health care in Canada, especially for newborn infants".

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Born in Toronto, Ontario, Walfish graduated from the University of Toronto in 1958 and specialized in internal medicine. After receiving a McLaughlin Foundation Fellowship, he spent a year studying endocrinology at Harvard Medical School. He joined the University of Toronto's Department of Medicine as a teacher becoming a professor in 1982.

Walfish has worked at Mount Sinai Hospital since 1964 as a scientist and a clinician. He helped pioneer techniques of early thyroid cancer detection using fine-needle biopsies and ultrasounds.

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Honours

In 1990, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Ontario in recognition for being a "leader in the international thyroidology community".

In 1983, he received an Award of Merit from the City of Toronto. In 1987, he was made a Fellow of the Endocrine Section, the Royal Society of Medicine, England. He was awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal and the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal. In 2004, he was the first Canadian to receive the American Thyroid Association's Paul Starr Award for outstanding contributions in clinical thyroidology. In 2007, he was awarded the Canadian Medical Association's Medal of Service "for advancing the art and science of treating thyroid diseases worldwide and raising the standards of medical practice in Canada".

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Paul Walfish Wikipedia