EVENT 6/19/2022

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You are invited to virtually attend:

A whole-person health approach to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Lessons for Post-COVID conditions”

Presented by Maria Vera-Nunez, MD, MSBI

Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 4:00 P.M.

Whole-person health is the term the NIH uses for Integrative Medicine approaches to patient care. Dr. Vera-Nunez uses a whole-person health approach to evaluate patients with chronic, multi-system conditions, including ME/CFS and Long COVID. She uses advanced functional medicine testing to personalize treatments. She strives to create a partnership with her patients, considering their preferences and empowering them to acquire skills to support their healing process.

Dr. Vera has been specializing in the treatment of people living with ME/CFS for more than 20 years, having originally worked with Dr. Nancy Klimas at Nova Southeastern University’s Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine for 7 years. Currently, she is an attending physician at the Whole Psychiatry and Brain Recovery Center in Maryland and a Research Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina.

This program is being presented jointly by the NJME/CFSA and the  Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM Association, as part of the latter’s Sunday Conversations series. Please join us!

REGISTER NOW [link: https://bit.ly/3wXYIfB  

Unable to attend?  This virtual program will be recorded for later viewing. It will be posted as soon as possible to the MassME Sunday Conversations web page:  [link: https://www.massmecfs.org/sunday-conversations]

ME/CFS Awareness Month

Very Interesting NEW Article

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR POST-ACUTE SEQUELAE OF SARS CoV-2 INFECTION

Leonard A. Jason and Mohammed F. Islam

https://cajmhe.com/index.php/journal/article/view/146/66

Recent Article

Sharing the latest installment written by a reporter who is working hard to get correct information to the readers. https://www.northjersey.com/…/chronic…/6822157001/

The Dr. Rosemary Underhill Medical Scholar Program

The Medical Scholarship has been renamed in honor of one of the initiators of that program. It has been renamed in honor of Rosemary Underhill – patient, NJME/CFSA Board Member, and researcher of ME/CFS for many years.

The scholarship is open to medical students, nursing students, physician’s assistant students. nurse practitioner students; as well as medicl residents – who are residents of NJ or associated with a Medical program in NJ.

Donations can be made at :https://www.njmecfsa.org/donate/.   In the “Comments” space you may designate the donation as “General Fund”, “In Memory of (name person),”  “The Dr. Rosemary Underhill Medical Scholar Program”  “Research” or “HS Scholarship.”

In Memoriam

Betty McConnell, one of the founders of the NJCFSA (now NJME/CFSA) in 1995 passed away.  away.  She will be fondly remembered for her dedication to the organization.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/pressofatlanticcity/name/elizabeth-mcconnell-obituary?id=32392808

Interesting article for those uncomfortable with vaccine.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-new-long-acting-monoclonal-antibodies-pre-exposure

In Memoriam

2022 HS Scholarship

The HS Scholarship Application Binder is located in the “Scholarships” tab.