ABOUT US

Our CEO and founder, Danielle Boyle, was diagnosed with Immune Thrombocytopenia in June 2015.

Looking and feeling healthy, she thought that she was just ‘bruised like a peach’ and that, along with her other symptoms from over the years, were considered normal. Then, in June 2015, after a trip to the hospital with what she thought was the flu, a full blood count identified Danielle as having ITP.

Luckily, her diagnosis was made under the trusty skills of a haematologist and one of Australia’s leading experts in ITP, Dr Robert Bird.

During her regular visits with Haematologist Dr Robert Bird at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, he spoke with Danielle about building a website for ITP in Australia.

With the assistance of a charity specialist accountant and lawyer, ITP Australia Ltd was registered as a not-for-profit charity in March 2018. Due to the increased requests from patients and healthcare professionals, ITP Australia changed in September 2023 to include New Zealand, where we now support hundreds of patients. Since then, we have changed our name to ITP Australia and New Zealand, better known as ITPANZ.

Our mission at ITP Australia and New Zealand is to provide up-to-date information, support and advocacy for the ITP patient community.

To deliver this, we work closely with people living with ITP, their families, healthcare professionals and industry partners.

We are active members of the International ITP Alliance and work closely with these members to work collaboratively.