Title:

Letter from Harold Varmus to Senator Tom Harkin

Creator:

Varmus, Harold
National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Office of the Director

Recipient:

Harkin, Tom and United States. Congress. Senate

Date:

10 October 1997

Description:

This letter summarizes the points that Varmus made during an earlier phone conversation with Harkin, including his concerns regarding the lack of enough properly trained investigators at the Office of Alternative Medicine to expand research in Alternative Medicine, the need for such research to be carefully overseen by experienced scientist-administrators, and the role that should be played by other federal agencies--AHCPR, FDA, and the CDC--in evaluating Alternative Medicine. He stressed the advantages of having OAM projects channeled through existing institutes and centers. Dr. Varmus appended to this letter a copy of a graduation speech to Stanford Medical School that June.

Location:

Box: 6. Folder: 19

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Subject:

Complementary Therapies

Format:

Text

Extent:

3 pages

Relation:

Stanford Medical School Graduation Speech, 1997

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

MVBBXW

NLM ID:

101584926X384

Profiles Collection:

The Harold Varmus Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584926X384

Story Section:

Basic Science and Congressional Politics: NIH Director, 1993-1999