Sharon Proudfoot

Sharon Proudfoot is a Founding Director of PHA Canada and served as Treasurer of the Association from its inception until 2011. However, her work and dedication to the PH community began well before this period of time. She began her work with the PH community in 2000, just over one year from her diagnosis with the disease. She started the first ever Calgary PH support group out of a need to unite the local community and make sure no one lived through this disease alone. She became a dedicated international member of PHA US, where she was able to make new PHriends in the community and widen her connections to the Canadian PHamily. From there, she was involved with a number of fundraising initiatives—such as for the PH Greatest Needs Fund—and joined the Founding Directors of PHA Canada in their vision to create a more united Canadian PH community that would be able to support and help one another.

Sharon—as a patient—was always incredibly focused on ensuring the absolute best for the members of the PH community. Her sharp and pragmatic approach was essential in the process of building PHA Canada from the ground up, and we could not have become the organization we are today without her expertise and hard work.

Sharon played an integral part in the executive search for PHA Canada’s first Executive Director in 2015. Since then, despite stepping down from the Board in 2017, she has continued to make herself available to help wherever she can and continues to support PH patients locally through her lunch support group in Vernon, BC. We are eternally grateful for Sharon’s contribution to uniting the PH community, and are both proud and honoured to name her as one of the Eternal PHriends of PHA Canada.