Committees
Advocacy
Members
Jerie Beth Karkos, MD (Co-Chair)
Lisa S. Thornton, MD (Co-Chair)
Jane Anne Emerson, MD
Dennis A. Hart, MD
Ganesh G. Gupta, MD
Jilda N. Vargus-Adams, MD
Maurice G. Sholas, MD
Harriet D. Fain-Tvedt, PT, MPA
Amy Joy Houtrow, MD, MPH
JoAnne Maczulski, OT
Rebecca A. Hanson, MD
Michelle N. Kuperminc, MD
Marcella M. Andrews, MPT
Hank Chambers, MD (Board Liaison)
Professional organization links
- www.aapmr.org American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- www.aan.com American Academy of Neurology
- www.aaos.org American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- www.apta.org American Physical Therapy Association
- www.asha.org American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- www.physiotherapy.ca Canadian Physiotherapy Association
- www.aota.org The American Occupational Therapy Association
- www.caot.ca Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists
- www.aap.org American Academy of Pediatrics
- www.aans.org American Association of Neurological Surgeons
- www.nursingworld.org American Nurses Association
Professional organization Advocacy links
- www.aan.com/go/advocacy Provides legislative news and Advocacy information
- www.asha.org/advocacy Advocacy information
- www.aap.org/advocacy.html Provides legislative news and Advocacy information
- www.aans.org/legislative/aans/medical.asp Legislative news
Helpful Cerebral Palsy Links
- www.wemove.org Education and awareness regarding movement disorders
- www.chasa.org Children's Hemiplegia & Stroke Association
- www.cpirf.org Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation
- www.ucp.org United Cerebral Palsy
- www.marchofdimes.com/pnhec/4439_1208.asp March of Dimes; Cerebral Palsy information
- www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cerebral_palsy/cerebral_palsy.htm National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; Cerebral Palsy information
- www.disabilityinfo.gov Information regarding the laws /opportunities for persons with disabilities
Legislative Advocacy
- Federal
- Contact/Find your legislator Link to www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/officials Enter your zip code to find your elected officials; you can email your Representative directly from this web site. To find your national representatives, name, phone number, address, email and web address, candidate profile visit: www.vote-usa.org
- To find out more about your national representatives, their party affiliation, background, committee assignments, voting record by going to a map: visit http://www.cqpolitics.com
- To write or call your representatives, find their committee and subcommittee assignments, find legislation: Access federal legislative activity including committee business by bill number, key words at www.senate.gov for the US Senate and http://clerk.house.gov/legislative/office of the clerk for US House of Representatives.
- Discover a bill’s status: Thomas Search Engine for Library of Congress: www.thomas.loc.gov
- Obtain Race Ratings for Senate, House, and Governors. Profiles of Members of Congress, poll tracking and more at: http://innovation.cq.com/atlas/home
- State/Local links
- To contact your State legislators, county reps, governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and voice your opinion, visit www.Vote-usa.org
- To find useful general information about your state, including vital records, with links to many sites, access www.50states.com
- Track what issues are currently being focused on at the state level state level through the National Conference of State Legislatures : www.ncsl.org
- Other government links
- For easy access to statistical information by federal agencies: US census data, population demographics and trends— Links to more than 100 US government agency sites agency websites www.fedstats.gov
- For questions about federal agencies, programs and services, surf over to the Federal Information Center’s website, which connects to additional government websites at : http://fic.info.gov
- Federal Agencies and commissions links www.whitehouse.gov and www.usa.gov
- Federal Register to access rules, proposed rules, comments, and notices of Federal agencies and Organizations—including executive orders and Presidential documents. www.gpoacces.gov/fr
- For Comprehensive disability related information and resources by topic or state: www.disabilityinfo.gov
Please note that the AACPDM Advocacy Committee provides the links above for informational purposes only. The appearance of a link on this page does not indicate endorsement or recommendation of the content on the linked website by the AACPDM and/or the members of the Advocacy Committee.