Science writer, awarded the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism for his coverage of the COVID pandemic; the George Polk Award for science reporting; the Benton Award for distinguished public service; the Victor Cohn Prize for medical science reporting, the Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for investigative journalism; the John P. McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers’ Association; and the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award for in-depth reporting.
He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: An Immense World, about the extraordinary sensory worlds of other animals; and I Contain Multitudes, about the amazing partnerships between animals and microbes
An Immense World won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize; it was also a finalist for four other major awards, and was ranked as one of the top books of the year by the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, the Economist, People, Barack Obama, and more than 30 other lists.
Clinical Assistant Professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), with medical residence in Public Health, MSc in Occupational Health, and PhD in Environmental Health.
One of the co-founders of the CureME research team at the LSHTM and co-author of the UK ME/CFS Biobank (UKMEB) project, serving as the clinical director of this biomedical facility; the first European disease-specific research facility, dedicated to improving biomedical research in ME/CFS.
Past elected Vice-Chair of EUROMENE (European Network for ME/CFS), a network funded by COST that brought together twenty-two European countries, to advance research and health care-provision for those with ME/CFS.
Shw co-authored three of the four guidelines issued as a result of this network’s work.
Prof. Dr. Eliana Lacerda at LSHTM
Prof. Dr. Eliana Lacerda on MEpedia
Internal medicine physician, practiced as a general internist for 10 years before starting the Fatigue Consultation Clinic in 2000. In 2015 she founded the Bateman Horne Center (BHC) with a mission to improve the lives of people with ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and related conditions, through clinical care, education and research.
Author of the 2015 Institute of Medicine publication recommending new evidence-based clinical diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS. Most recently, Dr. Bateman is serving as co-chair of the NIH ME/CFS Research Roadmap Initiative, is a clinical advisor to the NIH RECOVER COVID Initiative Clinical Trials and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Open Medicine Foundation (OMF).
BCH and OMF have jointly launched the Medical Education Resource Center (MERC) for multisystem chronic complex diseases. Her strong desire to research and advocate for ME/CFS is motivated by her having a family member with ME.
With 40 years of professional experience in Portugal and the US, António Vaz Carneiro is a Medical Doctor holding specialist degrees in Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Clinical Pharmacology.
He is a Retired Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon (FMUL) where he directs the Institute for Evidence Based Healthcare.
He is a Clinical Researcher with special interest in the areas of secondary research (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), methodologies of translation of knowledge into practice, overutilization of health resources, applications of Artificial intelligence in Medicine and research in Precision Medicine/Big Data. Prof. Vaz Carneiro is the Head of Cochrane Portugal.
Specialist in Rheumatology and Director of the Rheumatology Department at Egas Moniz Hospital since 2006. He is a full professor at NOVA Medical School (NMS) and served as it’s dean from 2013 to 2021.
He is a full professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) and served as director of FCM from 2013 to 2021.
He has authored and co-authored hundreds of scientific publications and is Principal Investigator in Rheumatology at the FCM´s CEDOC. He has received 92 scientific awards, including the BIAL Prize for Clinical Medicine 2008, the BIAL Grand Prize for Medicine 2016 and the Reuméritus Prize from the Portuguese Society of Rheumatology in 2010.
Cofounder of Millions Missing Aliança and ME/CFS Task Force coordinator in Myos. She has a PhD in public policy. Served as special assistant at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) directing a national program of 10 academic centers of excellence in youth violence prevention.
Founding co-director of the Inter-American Coalition for Violence Prevention, which promoted a public health approach and coordination between WHO/PAHO, USAID, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the CDC and UNESCO.
Elected Next Generation Fellow by the Rockefeller Foundation for her work in public hospitals, level 1 trauma centers and public health departments with victims of violence. Retired from the World Bank due to ME/CFS.
A Cardiologist and researcher dedicated to the care of heart failure and pulmonary arterial hypertension patients. His research interests encompass pulmonary circulation pathophysiology and the role of exercise as a diagnostic tool and as a treatment for cardiovascular diseases.
He is the coordinator of the Cardiovascular Research Group at the Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine (UMIB) part of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto, where he also teaches.
He is passionate about the impact of evidence-based medicine, clinical research skills, and physiology knowledge on the quality of medical education and cardiovascular care. He authored more than 70 peer-reviewed papers and is actively involved with international collaborative research networks.
Muna Sidarus has a master in Medicinal Chemistry by Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. She has done research in several fields of Chemistry and worked in laboratory equipment sales from many perspectives, having lived in Portugal, France, the UK and Switzerland.
Nowadays, she is a 5th year Medical student at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (Faculdade de Medicina e Ciências Biomédicas), Algarve University. She is interested in fibromyalgia and ME/CFS due to her personal and family experience.
She has volunteered with organizations for people with learning disabilities, palliative care and also Myos – National Association Against Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
She likes complex topics and multidisciplinary areas and thus has the intention to work at the interface between specialities, enabling the integration of information and the communication between health care professional who do not always use the same medical language and look at symptoms and diseases in a compartimentalized manner.
She joined the Myos ME/CFS Task Force in 2023, having been involved with the organization of this conference. At the beginning of 2024, she joined Myos’ elected managing board.
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