Gareth Parry
Professor Gareth Parry, of the Hopkins, Minnesota, United States, received the Insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to neurology. He is the medical director of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit and medical director of the Multiple Sclerosis Centre of the University of Minnesota. He has maintained links with colleagues in New Zealand, in particular the Guillain-Barre Syndrome New Zealand Support Group, and has returned to attend the organisation's annual conference. He is a member of the American Guillain-Barre Foundation and has been on the board of a number of American societies, including the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society and the American Board of Electro-diagnostic Medicine. He has written two books on the subject and contributed scientific papers to numerous journals.