The Michael J. Fox Foundation Annual Report 2016 – Frameworks for Progress | Page 9

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(8) Kimberly Williams-Paisley published Where the Light Gets In, a memoir about
her late mother Linda Williams, the Foundation’s first major gifts fundraiser
who was diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia — a rare form of dementia;
(9) Board members Tracy Pollan and Michael J. Fox with the Pollan family at
Funny Thing; (10) Matt Gerson, Howard Smith, Board member Ed Kalikow
and Arthur Waldbaum at Breaking PARkinson’s; (11) Public Policy Council
member Jim McNasby, JD, speaks at Breaking PARkinson’s; (12) Attendees at the
Parkinson’s Disease Therapeutics Conference in New York City; (13) George
Stroumboulopoulos, Michael J. Fox and Board member George Stephanopoulos
pose for a selfie at Funny Thing; (14) On December 13, President Obama signed
the 21st Century Cares Act into law, which will have a significant impact on
Parkinson’s research.
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