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On behalf of all FAIR members and their non-AIDS illnesses,
FAIR's
Founder,
President &
CEO, Dr. Richard Darling, traveled to Washington,
DC and met with many Congressional
health aides to introduce them to The FAIR Foundation. He also met
Congressman
Edolphus Towns (R-10th, NY) and expressed his great appreciation for the
Congressman's
work on the
House Committee for Hepatitis C.
Dr. Darling educated all that FAIR is a national
organization with thousands of members and supporters in fifty states and
the District of Columbia who are desirous of fairer and more equitable
research distributions from the National Institutes of Health. He gave
each health aide a
FAIR
brochure, the
ABC/ADA video
he plays at the onset of every FAIR presentation,
FAIR's letter to the House Subcommittee on
Labor-HHS-Education that is overseeing NIH allocations and a copy of his
book, Coma Life,
with an inscription thanking each Congressman for his efforts in his
District. He also gave Congressman Towns the
FAIR letter to his Committee from Dr. Darling and Dr. Concepcion.
 
Rachel Wanner for Dan Lundgren Jane Stone Brodsky for
Juanita Sarah Lapachet for Richard
Third
District, CA Millender-McDonald 37th D, CA
Pombo, 11th District, CA
Jamison Girard for Lynn Woolsey Rob
Leonard for Doris Matsui Dustin
Steiner for Randy "Duke"
6th District, CA 5th District, CA
Cunningham, 50th District, CA
Rebecca Jones Hunt for Ernest
Michaeleen Crowell for John Selin
Korustan for Ellen
Istook, 5th District, OK Lewis, 5th District, GA Tauscher, 10th District, CA
Tamar Mararik for Senator Darcie S. Brickner for Tom Sandra Trinidad for Grace
Diane Feinstein, CA Davis, 11th District, VA Napolitano, 38th District, CA
David Carreiro for Zoe Greg Calhoun for Michael Andrew House for Devin
Lofgren, 16th District, CA
Fitzpatrick, 8th District, PA Nunes, 21st District, CA
Gene Wilk for Adam Schiff Peter
Clark for Bob Filner
Chad Shearer for Fortney
29th District, CA
51st District, CA
"Pete" Stark, 13th District, CA
Dr. Darling also later met with and gave presentations to almost all the
Senate and House Legislative
Health Assistants working for the members of the Appropriations Committees
in both bodies of Congress.
You may view those pictures
here. He has since applied to give oral testimony to the
Appropriations
Subcommittee regarding the need for more fair and equitable research
funding.
While in
Washington, Dr. Darling attending the "March on DC for Hepatitis C
Awareness" that was
organized by the Hepatitis Movement for
Awareness's tireless Founder Tricia Lupole.
(Left) With Pam Bell, who courageously drove from North
Carolina to advocate for hepatitis
patients with only her wheelchair and great determination .
(Center) Exemplary hepatitis C patient
advocate, Pam Langford, of the HEALS of
North Georgia Organization. The
participants marched to
the Health and Human Services Building where Dr.
Darling left a copy of his book and information on
FAIR and the need for
new organ donor policies with the Assistant to the new Secretary of Health
and Human Services, Mike Leavitt (on the right).
Many speeches were given including this
Unity Speech by Pam Langford and Laura from Woodstock.
As a result of his presentation to the veterans' organization, VietNow,
Dr. Darling has become
acquainted with many children of the men and women who never
came home from Vietnam. Those
children have an organization called
SDIT and
FAIR has previously profiled SDIT and its members
(A
&
B). At midnight of his last night in DC, Dr. Darling attended a planned memorial
tribute by some of
these children at the Vietnam Wall. FAIR is proud to profile
and give tribute to Noreen Doloughty
and her dad, James, and Peter Tobias, and his dad, John.
Noreen's dad, James, graduates from high school in
1968, marries Barbara and they are blessed
by the birth of their daughter, Noreen. At midnight,
6/17/05, Noreen visits her dad while pointing
to him on the Vietnam Wall. For
more information on James's valor while serving our country and
on his family, click
A,
B and
C.
Fr. Peter Tobias visits his dad, Lieutenant
Colonel John C. Tobias. Lt. Col. Tobias, who served
two tours in Vietnam. Peter was 11 months old when
his dad died in Vietnam. For more
information on Lieutenant Colonel Tobias and his
exemplary service to our country, click
here.
Dr. Darling's
presentation to 75 students at Chaplain Leigh Aveling's "Personal and
Professional
Ethics" class at Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA
consisted of a FAIR speech and video plus
educating on the organ donor crisis in American and the altruistic
benefit from being an organ donor.
On the ABC/ADA video entitled "Disease Politics," students listen to
Michael J. Fox implore the Senate
Committee overseeing research funding to allot more money for
Parkinson's Disease.
Dr. Darling educates the students on the need for fair and
equitable research funds and on the organ donor crisis in the USA.
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