<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> What can the lay community do about informing the mediacl community about celiac disease. 1. If you have a support group and have identified an interested Dr or even one who was helpful or even listed well: invite he/she to liase with your group. Provide the MD with information from your own sources. If you have a big group buy the MD a copy of Micheal Marsh's book 'Coeliac disease" by blackwell scientific publications 1992. Invite to your meetings. Remenber they may have inherited some misconceptions about celiac disease. If they are/become knowledgeable encourage to speak at hospiatl mediacl rounds to inform their colleagues about celiac disease. If you have any family members who are doctors send them info too. Direct mailings are not likely to get thru the mass of junk mail that most MD's get. Publishing articles in medical journals relating to celiac disease does occur, maybe not as much or on as many related topics as we would like but some of us try. For thoe of us in academics review articles are not considered as important as new research reports. few research reports on CD emanate from the US because there are so few researchers interested in it and there is a lack of research funding for it. If there is research being doone in academic centers then the faculty doing the research will usually have an interest in what their researching and the disease that it is focussed on. They then enthusiastically teach it students and trainees who will absorb some it and carry it out with them into practise. That is not a fast process but it has happened with infalmmatory bowel disease largely due to the efforts of the CCFA( crohn's colitis foundation of America) If anyone knows any really rich people with celiac disease suggest that a foundation to support celiac disease research is sorely needed Joe Murray University of Iowa