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To: [log in to unmask] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 51 Reply-To: [log in to unmask] listfriends: the nih has announced a list of 20 people who will serve on the newly-established council of public representatives, which is to advise the director on overall nih research funding policy. the group was created as a result of a 1998 report by the national institute of medicine on how nih goes about selecting research funding priorities (in which pdf participated in a modest way). you can find the list at the nih website as follows: www.nih.gov/welcome/publicliaison/get-involved.copr/members.html one reader's view: a pretty impressive list, each member carefully researched and selected for experience with health policy and services and the group as a whole throughly diverse by any measure. don't look for much direct link to parkinson's though; we knew from the beginning that they were going to be wary of special-interest pleaders and they certainly meant it. at the same time, i was interested to learn that all of the 200 folks whose names were placed as candidates in the hopper (i know of at least eight from the pd community and i am sure there were others) are to be included in some kind of general advisory network, whatever that is to mean. robin elliott, executive director, parkinson's disease foundation