Dingell Honors Ann Arbor’s Chad Carr, Commemorates DIPG Awareness Day

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:May 17, 2021CONTACT:Mackenzie Smith Dingell Honors Ann Arbor’s Chad Carr, Commemorates DIPG Awareness Day Dingell’s bipartisan resolution would establish a national DIPG Awareness Day on May 17 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) commemorated Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) Awareness Day by introducing a resolution with Rep. David Joyce (R-OH) to establish May 17th as DIPG …

Special Delivery…

BethAnn Telford, an endurance athlete and brain cancer survivor, advocate for brain cancer patients–especially children, made a special delivery for the DIPG Advocacy Group this past week on Capitol Hill. A letter to the leadership of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House, and Committee Staff was first drafted on October 18th …

To Members of the Childhood Cancer Caucus and House Leadership in Matters Affecting America’s Children

Re:  H. Res. 114, the DIPG Awareness Resolution, #Moonshot4Kids Sept. 7, 2019 To the Congressional Caucus for Childhood Cancer and all Members of elevated influence in the House of Representatives concerning America’s children: Thank you for considering this letter and the H. Res. 114  information being distributed among all members of the House of Representatives.  Because of your position of …

To the Leadership of the House of Representatives H. Res. 114, the DIPG Awareness Resolution

Sept. 3, 2019 To the Honorable Speaker Pelosi (CA-14) of the House of Representatives​, to House Majority Leader Hoyer(MD-5), House Minority Leader McCarthy(CA-23), and to the Honorable House Majority and Minority Whips, James Clyburn(SC-6) and Steve Scalise(LA-1): To Chairman Pallone(NJ-6) and Ranking Member Walden (OR-2) of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Chairman Eshoo(D-18) and Ranking Member Burgess (TX-26) …

To the Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and Sub-Committee on Health

The missing ingredient is greater public awareness to the chronic lack of adequate research funding for pediatric cancers, most of which are deadly, marginalized as rare, and devoid of solutions.   Thank you for considering this and the attached information being distributed among all members of the House of Representatives.  Your position on the Committee, and consideration of support for this …

Reps Speier, Joyce Introduce Bipartisan Resolution to Fight Deadly Pediatric Cancer

Contact: DC – Tracy Manzer (202) 225-3531 (W) / (202) 538-0641 (C) [email protected] CA – Katrina Rill (650) 342-0300 (W) / (650) 208-7441 (C) [email protected] Reps Speier, Joyce Introduce Bipartisan Resolution to Fight Deadly Pediatric Cancer Washington, DC –Today, Reps. Jackie Speier (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) and David P. Joyce (R-Cleveland), along with 16 of their colleagues, introduced a bipartisan resolution to …