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Getting Involved: Advocating Locally for National Impact

You don't have to go to Washington and lobby on Capitol Hill to get legislators' attention on issues important to you and your patients. Sometimes, the people you need to talk to are right in your own back yard.

	Creating and Maintaining Personal Relationships

 
Seven years of lobbying taught former House staffer Dave Dillahunt, CAE, how to connect with the influential. Oncologists and "[House of Representatives] Members may live in the same neighborhood, be members of Rotary Club or the local Chamber of Commerce, have kids that go to school together, and so on," says Dillahunt, now executive director of the Ohio/West Virginia Hematology Oncology . . . [Click for More]