Josée Lake (born 1963 or 1964) is a Canadian paralympic gold medallist swimmer, and thalidomide survivor.

[3] Lake started to learn to swim at the age of five, having to travel long distances to find classes which would accept a child with a disability.

[3] In 2012 she was inducted into Swimming Canada's Circle of Excellence, an honour given to the "greatest Canadian swimmers of all time".

She has said that she hopes "that TVAC will continue to use its voice to promote pharmacovigilance, so that the thalidomide tragedy will never be forgotten.

I believe that by sharing our history, as Thalidomide survivors, TVAC can help make our world a much safer place for unborn children.