July/August 2018 Research Advocate
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E TO HOM H CLOSER RESEARC BRINgINg THE 8 H gUST 201 SEARC JULY/AU REATE ADVOC Now Take Action Nominations Open for Herbert Pardes Family Urge your Award for National Leadership in Advocacy ives representat to be a for Research r champion fo Research!America has announced the Herbert Pardes Family Award for NIH! National Leadership in Advocacy for Research , which recognizes individuals who, throughout their careers have – like Research!America board member Dr. Herbert Pardes – demonstrated Learn more distinguished leadership and sustained commitment to public 8. engagement and advocacy for research. Individuals selected for this on page honor will be those who are highly regarded for their ability to communicate the value of research and innovation to a broad array of audiences, and who, by dint of their example and active encouragement, have inspired others to do so. Nominations for the award are due by Friday, August 3 and should be submitted at www.researchamerica.org/PardesAward . The award will be presented at Research!America’s Advocacy Awards Dinner on March 13, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Honorees for the Pardes award Dr. Herbert Pardes and other advocacy awards will be announced in the fall. Dr. Pardes, executive vice chairman of the Board of Trustees, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital , is nationally recognized for his broad expertise in education, research, clinical care and health policy. He is an ardent advocate of academic medical centers, humanistic care and the power of technology and innovation to transform 21st-century medicine. Under his leadership, NewYork- C TION Presbyterian became one of the most highly regarded and comprehensive health care institutions A in the world. The hospital is top-ranked in the New York metropolitan area and is consistently ALERT ranked among the best academic medical institutions in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report . continued on page 3 Strong Majority say it’s Important for U.S. to be Global Leader in Research Straight Talk: Assessing Progress How important do you think it is that the U.S. is a global leader in research to improve health? 1% 2% in Cutting-Edge Research and Public Health 3% Not at all Don’t know Not too important Leaders in government, industry, patient important advocacy and academia will be among the panelists for Research!America’s 2018 National Health Research Forum on Thursday, 26% September 6 at the Newseum in Washington, Somewhat 67% important Very D.C. important The Forum brings together experts from across the research ecosystem for frank discussions on topics that bear importantly on the pace of medical and public health progress. This year’s forum will touch on such timely issues as how SOURCE: A RESEARCH!AMERICA SURVEY OF U.S. ADULTS CONDUCTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ZOGBY ANALYTICS IN MAY 2018. DUE TO ROUNDING, THE TOTAL to maximize the return in every health care MAY NOT ADD TO 100%. dollar, accelerate efforts to address unmet medical and public health needs, and gauge advances in brain science. VISIT US ON THE WEB www.researchamerica.org Confirmed speakers include: Dr. Francis Collins , director, National Institutes of Health; Dr. Robert Redfield , director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Celia Witten, twitter.com/researchamerica deputy director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug facebook.com/ResearchAmerica.org Administration; Dr. Joe Selby, executive director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute ; Dr. Mark McClellan , director, Duke-Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health youtube.com/researchamerica Policy, Duke University; Dr. Susan Fitzpatrick , president, James S. McDonnell Foundation; researchamerica.org/blog continued on page 3 ETTER CHAIR’S L Mid-summer offers no let-up in the pace of policymaker action on key legislation impacting medical and health research, and we are fully engaged. The good news is that Congress is favorably disposed to supporting research and innovation in both public and private sectors; the bad news is that there are other things on congressional plates as well, which, combined with pressures of election season, could push our interests down in terms of priorities. Our community’s recent success in standing down the rescissions package is the most recent evidence that advocacy works – and it will work again if we all rally to press Congress to act now to support research. Advocacy works because individuals stand up to be heard. A longtime national leader in health, Mary Woolley research for health and advocacy, Dr. Herbert Pardes, has been recognized by Research!America in the President and CEO creation of a new advocacy award that we have just announced. If you know of someone who rises to Dr. Pardes’ level of impact as an advocate, please be sure to nominate that individual to receive recognition next March. See elsewhere in this issue for details. Research!America Extends Special Thanks to our Supporters who Have Contributed Since the Publication of our May/June Newsletter 2018 Advocacy Awards Program Support Program Support (continued) Takeda American Society for Microbiology Kempe Foundation Vertex Institute of Translational Medicine at Society for Neuroscience 2018 National Health Research Forum the University of Chicago PCORI Visit www.researchamerica.org/partnership_opportunities for ways to support Research!America. Special Thanks to Renewing Research!America Alliance Members Renewing Members MedStar Health Research Institute Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Medical University of South Carolina South, Foundation Morgridge Institute for Research th Street 241 18 American College of Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving 501 Suite 02 Neuropsychopharmacology Cures n, VA 222 Arlingto a.org American College of Surgeons Oregon Health & Science University archameric www.rese American Geriatrics Society Shire 7 Americans for Medical Progress Society for Biomaterials 703-739-257 erica.org Association of Medical School South Alabama Medical Science researcham editor@ Microbiology and Immunology Foundation ca Stanford University School of arch!Ameri Chairs out Rese Medicine Ab argest Astellas the nation’s l ch!America is y Beyond Celiac SUNY Downstate Resear n and advocac ublic educatio e University of Kansas Medical Center 501(c)(3) p arch to improv Case Western Reserve University g to make rese liance workin unded in Celgene School of Nursing al nal priority. Fo a higher natio University of Tennessee Health health supported by EB Research Partnership rch!America is t 1989, Resea ether represen Elsevier Science Center tions that tog ber organiza mericans. Virginia Tech mem 125 million A Friedreich’s Ataxia Research Alliance of more than s the voices cacy program Friends of Cancer Research on polls, advo r public opini nd decision Ou h the public a GlaxoSmithKline blications reac and and pu dical, health H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & p advance me makers to hel arch. Research Institute scientific rese As of July 11, 2018 Not yet a member? Join Research!America today at www.researchamerica.org/membership . 2 RESEARCH!AMERICA TORS OF DIREC Herbert Pardes Family Award continued from page 1 BOARD An outspoken proponent for academic medicine, children’s health education, mental OFFICERS health issues, access to care and information technology in medicine, Dr. Pardes is a The Honorable Michael N. Castle, chair regular guest on national television news programs and contributes opinion pieces The Honorable John Edward Porter, chair appearing in the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers. He is active at the state and emeritus The Honorable Kweisi Mfume, vice chair federal level, supporting legislation to help hospitals provide quality health care while Mary Woolley, president and CEO balancing today’s economic realities with making the best possible medical care available E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA , secretary to all who need it. Sudip S. Parikh, PhD, treasurer BOARD MEMBERS Tenley E. Albright, MD National Health Research Forum continued from page 1 georges C. Benjamin, MD Nancy Brown Susan Dentzer Dr. Guillermo Prado , dean, graduate School, Leonard M. Miller professor of public health Victor J. Dzau, MD sciences, director, Division of Prevention Science and Community Health, Miller School of Susan Fitzpatrick, PhD Medicine, University of Miami ; Dr. Ivor Benjamin , president, American Heart Jay A. gershen, DDS, PhD The Honorable Bart gordon Association and director of the Cardiovascular Center at The Medical College of William N. Hait, MD, PhD Wisconsin ; Dr. Gary Cohen , executive vice president of global health, BD ; and Dr. Alfiee Larry Hausner, MBA Breland-Noble , associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, Georgetown University Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN Medical Center . Rush D. Holt, PhD Elizabeth Baker Keffer Panel sponsors include AdvaMed, Amgen, BD, Pfizer Inc and PCORI . For more Debra R. Lappin, JD information and to reserve your space at the Forum, visit Alan I. Leshner, PhD James L. Madara, MD www.researchamerica.org/forum . Lucinda Maine, PhD, RPh Mark McClellan, MD, PhD Herbert Pardes, MD Harold L. Paz, MD, MS guillermo Prado, Ph.D. Federal Policy Update Derek Rapp gary M. Reedy The appropriations committees in the House and Senate have finished “marking up” Amy Comstock Rick, JD their fiscal year 2019 (FY19) spending bills and, when it comes to our nation’s health Laing Rogers and science focused agencies, the news has been largely positive. Of particular note, Larry J. Shapiro, MD gregory Sorensen, MD the Senate provided an increase of $2 billion for NIH and, net of transfers and one-time Keith R. Yamamoto, PhD funding, provided a $695 million increase for CDC. The House provided a $296 million Elias A. Zerhouni, MD increase for FDA as well as a $408 million increase for NSF. Both the House and Senate EMERITUS DIRECTORS provided $334 million – the same level as FY18 – to AHRQ, but explicitly rejected calls Hortensia Amaro, PhD to roll the agency into NIH. Dennis A. Ausiello, MD Kenneth I. Berns, MD, PhD William R.