[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Pages 4955-4956]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO DR. RON ARYEL

 Mr. HELLER. Mr. President, today I wish to recognize Dr. Ron 
Aryel, pediatrician, biosurveillance expert, and founder of Reno Center 
for Child and Adolescent Health. The advanced health care this facility 
provides to our citizens is invaluable to northern Nevada, bringing an 
improved quality of life to children who are disabled or

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chronically ill and, in turn, the lives of their parents as well.
  Dr. Aryel founded Reno Center for Child and Adolescent Health in 
January of 2010. Prior to that, he served as a pediatrician and 
disaster response officer for the Public Health Service, treating 
patients in a variety of settings, including private offices, emergency 
rooms, psychiatric treatment centers, homes, field hospitals, and at 
the rear of utility vehicles in national emergency situations. During 
the 1999 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit, he served on a team 
that included a disaster response unit and the U.S. Marine Corps 
Chemical Biological Incidence Response Force Unit, protecting the U.S. 
President from radiological chemical and biological threats. In 
addition, he has volunteered as a clinical supervisor at the University 
of Nevada, Reno Student Outreach Clinic and served on the board of 
directors for Project Restart in Reno.
  Dr. Aryel has received a number of accolades, including the 2008 Good 
Neighbor Award from Kansas City, MO, Reno Center for Child and 
Adolescent Health and was also recognized with a Silver Syringe Award 
for its significantly high vaccination rates. Dr. Aryel's unwavering 
dedication to bringing first-class medical care to those around him 
goes without question. I am grateful to have him working to help those 
in need in the Silver State, and I extend my deepest gratitude for all 
he has done to help Nevada's youth.
  Reno Center for Child and Adolescent Health offers preventive and 
medical care to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults who 
require attention for serious or life-threatening illnesses and 
disabilities, as well as those requiring complex health care 
management. The facility is truly one of a kind in that it welcomes all 
children, including those with extremely difficult medical cases, and 
has the highest quantity of chronically and seriously ill children and 
adolescents in northern Nevada. Those leading the way at the center, 
including Dr. Aryel, are truly role models, demonstrating a genuine 
concern in improving the health and well-being of Nevada's future 
generations. Our State is fortunate to have a facility like this 
available to those in need.
  I am both humbled and honored to acknowledge Dr. Aryel for his 
outstanding work, especially for what he has done for families 
throughout northern Nevada, and I wish him the best of luck in all of 
his future endeavors. Today I ask my colleagues and all Nevadans to 
join me in recognizing an upstanding Nevadan, Dr. Ron Aryel.

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