Katherine Rowe

Dr. Katherine (Kathy) Rowe, MD

Katherine (Kathy) Sylvia Rowe, MD, is a consultant paediatrician at the University of Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital, Victoria, Australia, and an expert in the area of ME/CFS and the relationship between health and education. She has learned much from her extensive cohort and feedback from the young people with this illness.

Awards

• 2014, Nelson Gantz Outstanding Clinician Award awarded to a physician who emulates Nelson Gantz's clinical acumen, his passion for medicine, and his empathy for persons with CFS/FM awarded by International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

Boards and committees

Pediatric case definition

• 2006, A Pediatric Case Definition for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - (Full Text)

IOM Committee on Diagnostic Criteria for ME/CFS

• Dr Rowe was a reviewer for the 2015 report produced by the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Diagnostic Criteria for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

2017 Pediatric Primer

Dr. Katherine Rowe was one of the authors of the 2017 Pediatric Primer published in Frontiers in Pediatrics.

• Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Diagnosis and Management in Young People: A Primer by Peter Rowe, Rosemary A. Underhill, Kenneth J. Friedman, Alan Gurwitt, Marvin S. Medow, Malcolm S. Schwartz, Nigel Speight, Julian M. Stewart, Rosamund Vallings and Katherine S. Rowe (Full Text)

ME/CFS Common Data Element (CDE) Project

Member of the Sleep Working Group and the Autonomic Working Group of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Common Data Element (CDE) Project sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Talks and interviews

• 2007, Panel on "Chronic fatigue syndrome," interviewed by Natasha Mitchell on All in the Mind on ABC Radio National Australia
• 2014, Dr Kathy Rowe at a seminar put on by Emerge Australia (formerly ME/CFS Australia (Victoria)).

Research studies on ME/CFS

• 1997, Double-blind randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of intravenous gammaglobulin for the management of chronic fatigue syndrome in adolescents - (Abstract)
• 1999, Five-Year Follow-Up of Young People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Following the Double Blind Randomised Controlled Intravenous Gammaglobulin Trial - (Abstract)
• 2009, Severe versus Moderate criteria for the new pediatric case definition for ME/CFS - (Abstract)
• 2019, Long term follow up of young people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome attending a pediatric outpatient service - (Abstract)
• 2019, Epidemiology of paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome in Australia - (Full text)
• 2019, Resting-state functional connectivity, cognition, and fatigue in response to cognitive exertion: a novel study in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome - (Abstract)
• 2021, Health, Wellbeing, and Prognosis of Australian Adolescents (Full text)

See also

• Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Diagnosis and Management in Young People: A Primer

myalgic encephalomyelitis (M.E.) - A disease often marked by neurological symptoms, but fatigue is sometimes a symptom as well. Some diagnostic criteria distinguish it from chronic fatigue syndrome, while other diagnostic criteria consider it to be a synonym for chronic fatigue syndrome. A defining characteristic of ME is post-exertional malaise (PEM), or post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE), which is a notable exacerbation of symptoms brought on by small exertions. PEM can last for days or weeks. Symptoms can include cognitive impairments, muscle pain (myalgia), trouble remaining upright (orthostatic intolerance), sleep abnormalities, and gastro-intestinal impairments, among others. An estimated 25% of those suffering from ME are housebound or bedbound. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies ME as a neurological disease.

National Academy of Medicine (NAM) - An American non-profit, non-governmental organization which provides expert advice to governmental agencies on issues relating to biomedical science, medicine and health. Formerly known as the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

cognition Thought processes, including attention, reasoning, and memory.

cognition Thought processes, including attention, reasoning, and memory.

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.