Alan Pocinki

Source: www.alanpocinkimd.com

Dr. Alan G. Pocinki is a physician of Internal Medicine with a special interest in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Orthostatic Intolerance, Dysautonomia, joint hypermobility, and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

His office is in Rockville, Maryland and he is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC.

His medical degree is from Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University.

At present, his practice has a waiting list for patients with ME/CFS.

He began studying ME/CFS (when it was called CFIDS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1987. Since then he has given lectures and written articles for patients and doctors explaining the illness and championing treatment. In 2000, he was the recipient of the CSN (CFIDS Support Network) Action Champion Award by the CFIDS Association of America.

Within the ME/CFS community he is, also, applauded for appearing on NPR, The Diane Rehm Show NPR on July 3, 2003 with Laura Hillenbrand, the author of "Seabiscuit" and "Unbroken," while being Hillenbrand's physician.

Articles

• 5 March 2012, Dysfunction Junction: The ANS and CFS
• 31 October 2011, Joint Hypermobility and CFS
• 1997, Comment on article "Fireworks over fibromyalgia, CFS, and IBS" in Postgraduate Medicine

Notable studies in ME/CFS

• 1992, Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Virologic Studies in Four Clusters of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Abstract - can request full article)

Talks & interviews

• 2014 - "Breaking the Cycle of Chronic Pain, Poor Sleep, Depression and Fatigue"
• 2013 - Interview with Llewellyn King
• 2003 - NPR, The Diane Rehm Show - NPR, July 3, 2003 with Laura Hillenbrand

National Institutes of Health (NIH) - A set of biomedical research institutes operated by the U.S. government, under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) - Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome is another term for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but one which emphasizes the immunological aspects of the disease. Popular in the 1990s, this term has apparently fallen into disuse.