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	Alan Gregg | Mary Lasker | Regional Medical Programs

Scientists and health care professionals do not work in a vacuum. Research and health care are labor-intensive, expensive efforts that require the support of the community as a whole. Key to these efforts are the philanthropists, political leaders, and others who provide resources, remove barriers, and spearhead projects that improve the health of the nation and the world.

• Alan Gregg
  Alan Gregg (1890-1957) was a career Rockefeller Foundation officer, and a leader in the fields of public health, medical education and research.
  (Available March 2008; announcement)

• Mary Lasker
  Mary Lasker (1900-1994) was co-founder of the Lasker Foundation which fosters prevention and treatment of disease by honoring excellence in basic and clinical science. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal for her work.
  (Available June 2007; press release, updated March 2008)

• Regional Medical Programs
  The Regional Medical Programs began with President Lyndon Johnson's establishment of the Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke in 1964. It concluded in 1976. The goal was "to speed miracles of medical research from the laboratory to the bedside."
  (Available 1994, updated December 1999, April 2000, December 2005, July 2006, December 2006, May 2007, March 2008)