Katherine Rowe

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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[edit | edit source]

Boards and committees[edit | edit source]

Pediatric case definition[edit | edit source]

  • 2006, A Pediatric Case Definition for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome[2] - (Full Text)

IOM Committee on Diagnostic Criteria for ME/CFS[edit | edit source]

2017 Pediatric Primer[edit | edit source]

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

ME/CFS Common Data Element (CDE) Project[edit | edit source]

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.[5]

Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]

Research studies on ME/CFS[edit | edit source]

  • 1997, Double-blind randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of intravenous gammaglobulin for the management of chronic fatigue syndrome in adolescents[6] - (Abstract)
  • 1999, Five-Year Follow-Up of Young People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Following the Double Blind Randomised Controlled Intravenous Gammaglobulin Trial[7] - (Abstract)
  • 2009, Severe versus Moderate criteria for the new pediatric case definition for ME/CFS[8] - (Abstract)
  • 2019, Long term follow up of young people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome attending a pediatric outpatient service[9] - (Abstract)
  • 2019, Epidemiology of paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome in Australia[10] - (Full text)
  • 2019, Resting-state functional connectivity, cognition, and fatigue in response to cognitive exertion: a novel study in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome[11] - (Abstract)
  • 2021, Health, Wellbeing, and Prognosis of Australian Adolescents[12] (Full text)

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "IACFS/ME Awardees". IACFS/ME. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  2. Jason, Leonard A; Jordan, Karen; Miike, Teruhisa; Bell, David S; Lapp, Charles; Torres-Harding, Susan; Rowe, Kathy; Gurwitt, Alan; De Meirleir, Kenny; Van Hoof, Elke LS (2006), "A Pediatric Case Definition for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 13 (2–3): 1-44, doi:10.1300/J092v13n02_01
  3. https://www.nap.edu/resource/19012/MECFS_Powerpoint.pdf
  4. Rowe, Peter C.; Underhill, Rosemary A.; Friedman, Kenneth J.; Gurwitt, Alan; Medow, Marvin S.; Schwartz, Malcolm S.; Speight, Nigel; Stewart, Julian M.; Vallings, Rosamund; Rowe, Katherine S. (2017), "Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Diagnosis and Management in Young People: A Primer", Frontiers in Pediatrics, 5 (121), doi:10.3389/fped.2017.00121
  5. "Complete Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CDE Roster". NIH. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
  6. Rowe, K.S. (1997), "Double-blind randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of intravenous gammaglobulin for the management of chronic fatigue syndrome in adolescents.", Journal of Psychiatric Research, 31 (1): 133-47, PMID 9201655
  7. Rowe, K.S. (1999), "Five-Year Follow-Up of Young People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Following the Double Blind Randomised Controlled Intravenous Gammaglobulin Trial", Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 5 (3–4): 97-107, doi:10.1300/J092v05n03_08
  8. Jason, Leonard; Porter, Nicole; Shelleby, E; Till, L; Bell, David S; Lapp, Charles W; Rowe, Kathy; De Meirleir, Kenny (2009), "Severe versus Moderate criteria for the new pediatric case definition for ME/CFS", Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 40 (4): 609-20, doi:10.1007/s10578-009-0147-8
  9. Rowe, Katherine S. (January 2019). "Long term follow up of young people with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome attending a pediatric outpatient service". Frontiers in Pediatrics. doi:10.3389/fped.2019.00021.
  10. Knight, Sarah; Elders, Shane; Rodda, Jill; Harvey, Adrienne; Lubitz, Lionel; Rowe, Kathy; Reveley, Colette; Hennel, Sabine; Towns, Susan; Kozlowska, Kasia; Payne, Donald N; Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya; Scheinberg, Adam (February 23, 2019). "Epidemiology of paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome in Australia". Archives of Disease in Childhood: archdischild–2018–316450. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2018-316450. ISSN 0003-9888.
  11. Josev, Elisha K.; Malpas, Charles B.; Seal, Marc L.; Scheinberg, Adam; Lubitz, Lionel; Rowe, Kathy; Knight, Sarah J. (May 17, 2019). "Resting-state functional connectivity, cognition, and fatigue in response to cognitive exertion: a novel study in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome". Brain Imaging and Behavior. doi:10.1007/s11682-019-00119-2. ISSN 1931-7557.
  12. Josev, Elisha K.; Cole, Rebecca C.; Scheinberg, Adam; Rowe, Katherine; Lubitz, Lionel; Knight, Sarah J. (January 2021). "Health, Wellbeing, and Prognosis of Australian Adolescents with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): A Case-Controlled Follow-Up Study". Journal of Clinical Medicine. 10 (16): 3603. doi:10.3390/jcm10163603.