Registration is now Closed for 2018!
We are excited about the overwhelming interest in this year's event and wanted to let you know that registration is now closed. If you are interested in golfing, we have started a waiting list so we ask you to email dannygallivancf@gmail.com with your name and email address.
To help honour Rob & Jane Thompson, please visit our “Friends of Robbie & Jane” tab located above.
To make a donation to the Danny Gallivan CF Golf Tournament, please send cheque to: PO Box 38111, Dartmouth, NS B3B 1X2
Thank you very much for supporting the Danny Gallivan Cystic Fibrosis Golf Tournament. We look forward to seeing you on the course and celebrating our 34th year!
As an example of your support, extraordinary progress has been made in the last 12 months. Some senior scientists, who’ve made it their life’s work to study CF, believe we’re on the verge of redefining cystic fibrosis as a “chronic disease,” not as a fatal disease.
Without doubt, this is a time of historic importance in the CF fight.
Some of you will recall that five years ago, the US drug company Vertex (the sponsor of Wednesday night's reception) introduced the first ever drug to attack the cause of CF, not just the symptoms. That drug was suitable for only a sub-set of persons with CF.
Since then, two more drugs for different sub-sets of persons with CF have been introduced and, literally, dozens more drugs are “in the pipeline.”
Meanwhile, in a complementary development, Cystic Fibrosis Canada has launched a campaign to raise $7.5 million over five years to ensure we can rapidly deploy the optimum “cocktail” of drugs – the old drugs and the new drugs -- for each person in Canada with CF. The result will be substantially better care delivered more quickly with better outcomes for CF patients in Canada, and beyond.
None of this would have been possible without support from people like you. The Danny Gallivan Cystic Fibrosis Golf Tournament -- along with the car washes, raffles, dances and concerts – have made the difference.
We’re on the verge of something spectacular. And now’s not the time to let up.
