Trying as hard as I can for CCSVI
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:09 pm
I wrote to the president of the University I went to (don't want to give any names but it's one of the biggest schools in the country - so you can probably get your list down to under 25 schools and figure it out based on where I live).
He (the president)'s actually (for as busy as he is) very good at writing back to people who he's probably shaken hands with a few times ever (probably helps I'm a grad student as well and have a .edu email address).
So anyway, I wrote him about CCSVI and about potentially contacting the heads of certain departments at the medical school for my University and having them pushing the Intervential Radiologists and Neurologists at our medical school to look into this and see if my wife could go there.
I actually got a very nice email back from the president, as well as one from the senior vice president and dean of the medical school after the president copied him on it (he is an MD). They are going to have their team look into the research, and see if they would consider pursuing this type of treatment, and get me in contact with some people who my wife and I can get with further.
I know it's not much, but the fact that these two guys who don't know me, yet have considerable influence over the direction a medical program at a major teaching medical school would go, and took the time to at least read what I had to write and consider it ... made me smile just a little bit inside. Even if it's just to open someone's eyes that CCSVI is out there ... who knows, maybe it'll actually lead to something.
Right now that medical school is big into pediatric cancer ... but maybe they'll move on to CCSVI as well!
He (the president)'s actually (for as busy as he is) very good at writing back to people who he's probably shaken hands with a few times ever (probably helps I'm a grad student as well and have a .edu email address).
So anyway, I wrote him about CCSVI and about potentially contacting the heads of certain departments at the medical school for my University and having them pushing the Intervential Radiologists and Neurologists at our medical school to look into this and see if my wife could go there.
I actually got a very nice email back from the president, as well as one from the senior vice president and dean of the medical school after the president copied him on it (he is an MD). They are going to have their team look into the research, and see if they would consider pursuing this type of treatment, and get me in contact with some people who my wife and I can get with further.
I know it's not much, but the fact that these two guys who don't know me, yet have considerable influence over the direction a medical program at a major teaching medical school would go, and took the time to at least read what I had to write and consider it ... made me smile just a little bit inside. Even if it's just to open someone's eyes that CCSVI is out there ... who knows, maybe it'll actually lead to something.
Right now that medical school is big into pediatric cancer ... but maybe they'll move on to CCSVI as well!