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          commander who was a combat diver, master parachutist, and   The tax­deductible funds are deposited into a UT Southwest­
          Army Ranger now faces a future of long­term disability with a   ern fund dedicated to Gulf War illness research, as directed by
          range of complex and debilitating symptoms, severely limiting   Robert Haley, MD, the program’s director.
          complications, and extreme functional impairment.
                                                             While Dr Haley’s team will continue to seek funding for the
          COL Davis and his twin brother, Bob, played a crucial role in   large efforts from peer­reviewed government research pro­
          the research program, volunteering to serve as alpha tests for   grams, private contributions play a vital role in accelerating
          each phase of the research involving clinical testing to help   the pace of complex, long­term research, supporting the col­
          fine­tune the protocols before formal test subjects are brought   lection of preliminary data needed to quality for grant funds,
          in. He urges all with a passion for helping the approximately   and providing for necessary expenditures that limited federal
          175,000 Servicemembers who are chronically ill with brain   grants may not cover.
          damage from chemical exposures in that war to make contri­
          butions to this fund.





















































                           Information on the fund is from https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/education/medical­school
                           /departments/internal­medicine/divisions/epidemiology/neuroepidemiology/gulf­war/bill
                           ­davis.html
                                                                      —Lt Col (Ret) Michelle Landers, MBA, BSN, RN



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