Mary J. Shomon
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THYROID SPECIALIST
Mary Shomon is the nation's leading patient advocate on thyroid disease and the best-selling author of numerous books on thyroid, autoimmune and hormonal conditions. She is author of the New York Times best-selling book "The Thyroid Diet: Manage Your Metabolism for Lasting Weight Loss." (2004) "Thyroid Diet" was also a semi-finalist for the prestigious Quills Awards in 2005. Her best-selling, internationally-published book "Living Well with Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You...That You Need to Know," was first published in 2000, and after more than 20 printings, a second edition came out in 2005. The book was a Prevention Book Club Selection, and Amazon Top-Selling health book, and its popularity launched a new series of consumer health books for publisher HarperCollins.
Mary Shomon is also author of "Living Well With Graves' Disease and Hyperthyroidism," (2005) "Living Well With Autoimmune Disease,"(2003) "Living Well With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia," (2004) and the "Thyroid Guide to Fertility, Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Success" (2005). Her newsletter for thyroid patients, "Sticking Out Our Necks," was founded in 1997, and has become a popular resource for patients in both its email and print form.
Mary Shomon has served as the Guide for the popular About.com Thyroid site -- now part of the New York Times Company -- launching the site in early 1997, and managing the site and working as its sole researcher/writer since that time. That site, http://thyroid.about.com/, along with her advocacy site http://www.thyroid-info.com/, are the Internet's most popular and visited sites dedicated to thyroid disease.
Mary Shomon has been featured in hundreds of television, radio, newspaper, magazine and web interviews, including appearances on ABC World News Tonight and CBS Radio Networks, and interviews in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Ladies Home Journal, Health, Cooking Light, Elle Magazine, Woman's World, and the Los Angeles Times, to name just a few.
In her decade of consumer advocacy, Mary Shomon has never hesitated to take a stand on behalf of patients, and her independence from drug companies and medical/patient organizations that are funded by the pharmaceutical industry has allowed her to maintain an unbiased, truly patient-first advocacy effort that is rare in the thyroid community.
