Illinois

State Director

Roger Halleen
East Peoria, IL
roghfish@comcast.net
309-699-7394 (home)
309-219-1210 (cell)

Assistant State Directors

Dennis Marion
Moline, IL
dennym11@mchsi.com

Nicole Melody
Rock Island, IL
nicole.melody@risd41.org

 Glenn Peterson
Hampshire, IL
gmpeterson@yahoo.com

Support Groups

For Illinois support groups,visit: apdamidwest.org.

Parkinson’s Disease-Related Federal Funding in Illinois

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Non American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Non-ARRA)
•    Northshore University Healthsystem Res Inst
•    Rush University Medical Center
•    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
•    Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
•    Northwestern University
•    University of Illinois at Chicago
•    University of Chicago

Total Non-ARRA funding $8,483,222

Actual ARRA
•    University of Illinois at Chicago
•    Rush University Medical Center

Total ARRA funding $790,316

Department of Veterans Affairs Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Centers (PADRECC) and Consortium Sites
•    North Chicago VA Medical Center in North Chicago, IL
•    Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, IL

Department of Defense (DoD)
Neurotoxin Exposure Treatment Parkinson's Research (NETPR) program grantees:
•    Glutamate Signaling and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Models of Parkinson's Disease in Evanston, IL