Reinstate NYS Spinal Cord Injury Research Program Funding
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Let’s reach as many and as far as we can: Letter writing campaign:
Save the NYS Spinal Cord Injury Research Program! Attached is a letter to use as a guide and addresses to send the letters to. Snail mail is most effective, headed paper is great if you can. Please send letters right away !
Friends from all states, take these steps:
1) Open the attached letter and read it. If you want, edit it. Perhaps add your personal reasons why SCIRP should be reinstated.
2) Print, sign the letter and address the envelope to those on the attached list, but especially:
Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo
Executive Chamber
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
Phone-in campaign:
Please call Governor Andrew Cuomo, 518-474-1041-option #3, you will get sec'y or recording. State you are calling to urge him to amend his 2013-2014 budget to include funding for the NYS spinal cord injury research program """""they will only ask for zip code. Call 24/7, takes 2 minutes.
Please call the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Nivav Shah, at the Department of Health- 518-474-2011 and the email address is dohweb@health.state.ny.us. Request that he urge Gov Cuomo to amend his 2014 budget to include funding for the NYS spinal cord injury research program, and that he not move forward with plans to phase out the NYS Spinal Cord Research Program.
Let’s reach as many and as far as we can: Letter writing campaign:
Save the NYS Spinal Cord Injury Research Program! Attached is a letter to use as a guide and addresses to send the letters to. Snail mail is most effective, headed paper is great if you can. Please send letters right away !
Friends from all states, take these steps:
1) Open the attached letter and read it. If you want, edit it. Perhaps add your personal reasons why SCIRP should be reinstated.
2) Print, sign the letter and address the envelope to those on the attached list, but especially:
Hon. Andrew M. Cuomo
Executive Chamber
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
Phone-in campaign:
Please call Governor Andrew Cuomo, 518-474-1041-option #3, you will get sec'y or recording. State you are calling to urge him to amend his 2013-2014 budget to include funding for the NYS spinal cord injury research program """""they will only ask for zip code. Call 24/7, takes 2 minutes.
Please call the Commissioner of Health, Dr. Nivav Shah, at the Department of Health- 518-474-2011 and the email address is dohweb@health.state.ny.us. Request that he urge Gov Cuomo to amend his 2014 budget to include funding for the NYS spinal cord injury research program, and that he not move forward with plans to phase out the NYS Spinal Cord Research Program.
New York State has a landmark Spinal Cord Injury Research Program (SCIRP) funded through a law written for this purpose that stipulates a surcharge on those convicted of moving traffic violations. This program has been highly productive, leading the nation to help establish NYS as a beacon in neuroscience research. Since 1998, SCIRP provided $70 million toward developing treatments for spinal cord injury. Then, in 2010, this money, raised for paralysis research, was diverted to other uses. We urge NYS government to uphold the law, and reinstate this essential funding stream to benefit patients and invest in NYS biomedical progress.
Hon. Nirav Shah, M.D., MPH
NYS Department of Health
Corning Tower
Empire State Plaza
Albany NY 12237
NYS Department of Health
Corning Tower
Empire State Plaza
Albany NY 12237
