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The Celiac Disease Foundation on May 22 awarded its first Celiac Disease Policy Leadership Award to U.S. Representative Betty McCollum (MN-04) for her distinguished service and advocacy on behalf of the celiac disease patient community. Among other initiatives, she established the bipartisan Congressional Celiac Disease Caucus, which has significantly increased federal recognition of celiac disease.

In March, our Celiac Disease Foundation staff—most of whom are lived experience experts—headed to the halls of Congress for our annual round of bipartisan meetings with key members of Congress to advocate for the interests of our patient and research communities.

We are well on the way to assembling a grassroots advocacy team that can help make celiac disease a national priority in communities across the country