Professor Kristien Boelaert appointed President-Elect of the British Thyroid Association

[helvella]

It might be of interest that the current President, Professor Simon Pearce (Newcastle), will be replaced sometime soon.

Professor Kristien Boelaert appointed President-Elect of the British Thyroid Association

A member of the BTA for more than 20 years, Professor Boelaert will take up her new position in May.

Professor Boelaert's clinical research interests include the management of thyroid dysfunction, nodules and endocrine disorders in pregnancy. Her laboratory research programme focuses on the pathogenesis of thyroid cancer and she is involved in a number of clinical trials in the field of thyroid disease.

She is the Clinical Lead for the NICE Guidelines on Thyroid Diseases, the National Consensus Statements on Management of Thyroid Cancer and the RCOG Green Top Guidelines for Management of Thyroid Diseases in Pregnancy. Kristien’s research continues to attract funding from major grant awarding bodies including the MRC, the Wellcome Trust, CRUK and other Charities. The impact of her research is evidenced by a rapidly growing list of publications and numerous invitations to speak at international conferences.

Professor Boelaert works closely with the British Thyroid Association's associated patient support group, the British Thyroid Foundation (BTF) aiming to improve the management of patients with thyroid diseases. Some of her research has been funded by the BTF previously and her current research projects have been set up with significant PPI input from the BTF.

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Odd that this is blazoned across University of Birmingham. And only just mentioned on BTA's own site!

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For information, this links to all the published papers listing her as an author:

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[SarahJane1471]

Are we not glad that Prof P is gone. Isn’t he the one who thinks T3 is a waste of time?

[Shusky in reply to SarahJane1471]

I don’t think there will be any changes with respect to T3 with his replacement unfortunately.

[helvella Administrator]

I highlight this paper of which she was a co-author:

Liothyronine cost and prescriptions in England

Peter N Taylor

Salman Razvi

Ilaria Muller

John Wass

Colin M Dayan

Krishna Chatterjee

Kristien Boelaert

Published:January, 2019

DOI: doi.org/10.1016/S2213-8587(...

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[SlowDragon Administrator]

The first female President I think

[helvella Administrator in reply to SlowDragon]

While I wouldn't want to see there being a bar to men, it is fairly-to-majorly ridiculous that a disease area with a massively higher impact on women has had so few female practitioners and, most importantly, so few senior figures in the profession. Ever.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to helvella]

Exactly ….perhaps times are changing

Good to see a fair few women in BTA committee too (at last)

[Marz]

A quick phone call to Athens could have saved a million or two and ensured everyones needs were met ....

[Gingernut44]

Thanks for letting us know about this appointment, I didn’t think she was even mentioned for the job. I can’t say I’m very pleased as she is known for advocating the use of RAI treatment on cost grounds, disregarding the now known adverse outcomes of such treatment that are never discussed with the patients being pushed into having this treatment. Oh well, out with the old and in with the new. Same old same old.