End of an Era After 33 years at the helm, Boris M Struk, Executive Director and builder of Muscular Dystrophy Australia (MDA), has announced his retirement. Here are some highlights of Boris’ journey with MDA. In 1984 Boris was told by a neurologist that his youngest son, Ryan, had Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, one of the [...]
We are thrilled and very proud to announced the MDA has been nominated and chosen as a finalist for the 2017 Telstra Business Awards! The prestigious award sees businesses and charities submit an application that takes over 30 hours to put together, with the hopes of being short-listed. Once short-listed, judges conduct a site [...]
MDA Executive Director Boris M Struk accepted the National Award from Major General Iain Spence on behalf of MDA. This award was for the commitment MDA provided to the Defence Reserve Support Council with the employment of Lieutenant Colonel Alan Quaife. […]
MDA's Executive Director Boris M Struk was recognised as a winner in the Lifetime Achievement Award for the 2016 Victorian Disability Awards. He was presented with a plaque by the Minister for Disability Martin Foley at a ceremony at Federation Square on June 15th. The awards recognise people and organisations who make outstanding contributions to [...]
MDA Passed the ISO 9001 Muscular Dystrophy Australia (MDA) has just passed its recent ISO 9001 Audit with 100% compliance and the organisation’s Executive Director, Boris M Struk, says he could not be more proud of the achievement. “Receiving the accreditation in 2013 was a wonderful accomplishment and placed MDA in a superior position in [...]
Congratulations Ryan Struk! Muscular Dystrophy Australia would like to congratulate Ryan Struk on recently completing his Bachelor of Arts with distinction (majoring in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies) at Deakin University. Ryan has been a diligent student and dedicated himself to his studies, with all of his hard work paying off on Thursday [...]
Meet a nominee from Victoria Over 30 years ago Boris M Struk learnt the news that his youngest son, Ryan, was affected by the muscle-destroying disorder Muscular Dystrophy (MD). From that day forward Boris has dedicated his life to the MD community. The devastating news and lack of information and support available at the time [...]
MDA Executive Director, Boris M Struk, has been featured on the front cover of this year's White Pages, soon to be hitting your doorstop. Mr Struk was chosen as the new face of the White Pages as part of the Keeping Our Communities Healthy campaign, which recognises the selfless Australians who go above and beyond [...]
