Recruitment update at Los Angeles site

CPET demonstration

Now recruiting in the Los Angeles area:  People with ME/CFS and healthy, inactive control participants for the NIH-funded Cornell University Collaborative Research Center study of ME/CFS.  If accepted into the study, participants will complete two cardiopulmonary exercise tests over two days with blood drawn before and after each test, and wear a wrist watch device to measure physical activity for 10 days before and 10 days after the exercise tests.  Exercise testing will be completed at the ID Med clinic in Torrance, CA.  For more information and/or to be screened for acceptance into the study, please contact:

Jared Stevens
jared@workwellfoundation.org
209-599-7194

New Center Manager

Let us welcome Carl Franconi to the Cornell ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center team. He will be joining us as the Manager for the Center for Enervating NeuroImmune Disease. Carl will be taking over the administrative workload from Ms. Susi Varvayanis, who has recently taken a full-time position in the Graduate School to pursue her interest in supporting PhDs interested in non-academic careers, a role she had been carrying out part-time while efficiently managing our NIH ME/CFS CRC.

Continue reading “New Center Manager”

New York City ME/CFS recruitment has begun

The Weill Cornell Medical Center is recruiting individuals between the ages of 21-65 whose doctor has found no cause for their severe fatigue. Please contact Xiangling Mao by phone at (212) 746-2632 or email at xim2004@med.cornell.edu for more information about the study and to determine if you are eligible.

Study participation includes a visit to the study physician’s office to fill out a questionnaire on physical and mental health, and a medical examination. If deemed eligible, a visit to Weill Cornell Medicine includes a questionnaire, magnetic brain imaging (MRI), blood draws, urine tests, a cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) and positron emission tomography scan (PET). Participants will be compensated for their time.

Please see the NYC -Recruitment-Flyer for additional details, and share it with others who are able to travel to the site if they are deemed eligible.

Screening starting for ME/CFS patients and controls

UPDATE (04-2019): The recruitment flyer has been revised with the new IRB approval number. Please navigate to the flyer link below to retrieve the newest version.

Now that the IRB protocols have been approved, the recruitment and screening of ME/CFS patients and low-active control subjects will begin. To learn more about the process and what determines your eligibility, and to print a flyer to help us recruit participants, please see ME/CFS Recruitment flyer for Ithaca and Los Angeles areas. The total time commitment to participate is about 5 hours, excluding travel to and from the testing site.

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