Out and About 

New Web site launched:

The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services via the Assistant Secretary for Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on issues related to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). The committee has launched a new web site at http://www.hhs.gov/advcomcfs/index.html to provide the public with information about its activities and to house information including minutes of past meetings. The committee has also created a public listserv. For information about joining the list, visit http://list.nih.gov/  

The next meeting of the advisory committee is scheduled for March 22, 2004. See http://www.hhs.gov/advcomcfs/reg_notice_03_04_2004.html for more information.

April 17 Conference

The New Jersey CFS Association will hold its annual spring conference on Saturday, April 17 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick , New Jersey . Speakers include:

            K. Kimberly (Kenney) McCleary, The CFIDS Association of America

            Leo J. Shea, III, PhD, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine

            Sinclair A. Smith, ScD, TempleUniversity

            Suzanne Vernon, PhD, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

The conference runs from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Patients and family members can register for $30 each; registration for health care professionals is $45, for which they receive 3 hours of Category 1 CME credits.

For more information, visit http://njcfsa.org/ or call:

Patients/family members – 732-418-8110
Health care professionals – 973-972-7128

Association President & CEO marries

Kim McCleary, formerlyKim Kenney, was married on January 31, 2004. She has begun using her new name for business and is transitioning to a new e-mail account (kmccleary@cfids.org), although messages sent to the old address will still reach her. Association materials will reflect her new name as supplies of existing materials are exhausted. Kim’s husband, Kofi, is a frequent Association volunteer; his mother, Wilhelmina Jenkins, and sister, Kamilah Konrad, have CFIDS.