Authors of the ME/CFS Consensus Document

• Bruce M. Carruthers, MD, CM, FRCP(C)  
  internal medicine, Saanichton, British Columbia.
  

• Anil Kumar Jain, BSc, MD 
  affiliate of the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario
  

• Kenny L. De Meirleir, MD, PhD 
  Professor Physiology and Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium; ME/CFS researcher and clinician; organizer of the World Congress on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Related Disorders; a board member of the American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; co-editor of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Critical Reviews and Clinical Advances, co-editor of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:  A Biological Approach, and co-editor of the Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
  

• Daniel L. Peterson, MD
  affiliate of the Sierra Internal Medicine Associates in Incline Village, Nevada; ME/CFS researcher and clinician; a board member of the American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; and member of the International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study Group.
  

• Nancy G. Klimas, MD 
  Clinical Professor of Medicine in Microbiology/Immunology/Allergy and Psychology, University of Miami School of Medicine; ME/CFS researcher and clinician; a board member of the American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; member of the federal CFS Coordinating Committee.
  

• A. Martin Lerner, MD, PC, MACP 
  staff physician at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan; Clinical professor and former chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine; and ME/CFS researcher and clinician.
  

• Alison C. Bested, MD, FRCP(C) 
  haematological pathologist; former head of the Division of Haematology and Immunology ath the Toronto East General and Orthopaedic Hospital; affiliate of the Environmental Health Clinic and Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario;ME/CFS researcher and clinician.
  

• Pierre Flor-Henry, MB, ChB, MD, Acd DPM, FRC, CSPQ 
  Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Alberta; Clinical Director of General Psychiatry and Director of the Clinical Diagnostic and Research Centre, both based at Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; ME/CFS brain researcher
  

• Pradip Joshi, BM, MD, FRCP(C) 
  internal medicine, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada 
  

• A. C. Peter Powles, MRACP, FRACP, FRCP(C)
  Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Health Science, McMasters University, Hamilton; Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto; Chief of Medicine and Sleep Disorders Consultant, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto; Sleep Disorder Consultant at the Sleep Disorder Clinic  at St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, and Central West Sleep Affiliation, Paris, Ontario
  

• Jeffrey A. Sherkey, MD, CCFP(C)
  Formerly in Family Medicine, affiliate of the University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario; and diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome nearly 10 years ago.  We regret that Dr. Sherkey has since passed away. 
  

• Marjorie I. van de Sande, BEd, Grad Dip Ed 
  Consensus Coordinator;  Director of Education, National ME/FM Action Network, Canada

This page was last reviewed/modified on 2006/09/04.