CFS History Makers Get Press

In the recent special edition CFIDSLink and the spring 2007 CFIDS Chronicle, we profiled just a few of the many people who are working to make CFS history. Though you can expect more profiles from us in the year to come, several CFS history makers were recently featured in other media publications.

Dr. Nancy Klimas, longtime dedicated CFS researcher and clinician, and her professional colleagues were the subjects of an in-depth feature article in the University of Miami’s spring 2007 Medicine magazine. Among her many research projects, Klimas has documented numerous abnormalities in the immune systems of CFS patients, piloted an experimental immunomodulatory treatment, tracked the clinical status of CFS patients in south Florida following Hurricane Andrew and assembled and sustained a multidisciplinary research team at the University of Miami, where she currently conducts much of her research.
Read the University of Miami Medicine story.

In a story about how CFS affects African Americans, the Sacramento Observer profiled CFS spokesperson and former Association board member Wilhelmina Jenkins. She was also in a Louisville Courier article that profiled several CFS patients.

Jenkins was a mother of two, scientist and graduate student working on her doctorate in physics when she developed CFS. In 1993 she testified to CDC and NIH about the lack of attention paid to minorities with the illness. She also appeared with her daughter Kamilah Konrad on the Oprah show to talk about CFS—a historic moment for the CFS community—and is one of the people pictured in the Faces of Chronic fatigue Syndrome exhibit traveling the country.
Read the Sacramento Observer story and the Louisville Courier story.

In the short time 13-year-old Brian Bernard has been in the CFS spotlight, he’s made a definite impact in raising awareness about the illness and its effect on children and adolescents. He’s pictured in the Faces of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome exhibit traveling the country, and he bravely and eloquently spoke before a packed room of participants at the kNOw MORE CFS seminar in New Jersey this March. During that time the New Jersey Star-Ledger featured Bernard and several other CFS sources in a story that was picked up and published by the Chicago Tribune and papers in at least six other states.