Rosane Nisenbaum

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Rosane Nisenbaum, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Biostatistics at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Canada[1] and Associate Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital.[2]

Education[edit | edit source]

She earned a BS in statistics and an MS in operations research at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, then a PhD in biostatistics, University of California at Los Angeles, US.[1]

ME/CFS[edit | edit source]

Nisenbaum was a co-author of the Reeves criteria (sometimes called the "empirical definition"), proposed in a 2005 article in BMC Medicine.[3]

Notable studies related to ME/CFS[edit | edit source]

  • 1995, Seroepidemiology of chronic fatigue syndrome: a case-control study[4] (Abstract)
  • 1997, Immune responses associated with chronic fatigue syndrome: a case-control study[5] (Abstract)
  • 1997, Fatiguing illness among employees in three large state office buildings, California, 1993: was there an outbreak?[6] (Abstract)
  • 1998, Factor analysis of unexplained severe fatigue and interrelated symptoms: overlap with criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome[7] (Abstract)
  • 1998, Chronic multisymptom illness affecting Air Force veterans of the Gulf War[8] (Abstract)
  • 2000, Chronic fatigue syndrome is not associated with expression of endogenous retroviral p15E[9]
  • 2000, Longitudinal analysis of symptoms reported by patients with chronic fatigue syndrome[10] (Abstract)
  • 2000, Deployment stressors and a chronic multisymptom illness among Gulf War veterans[11]
  • 2003, Prevalence and Incidence of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Wichita, Kansas[12] (Full Text)
  • 2003, Identification of ambiguities in the 1994 chronic fatigue syndrome research case definition and recommendations for resolution*2003, Identification of ambiguities in the 1994 chronic fatigue syndrome research case definition and recommendations for resolution[13] - (Full Text)
  • 2003, Medication use by persons with chronic fatigue syndrome: results of a randomized telephone survey in Wichita, Kansas[14] (Full text)
  • 2003, A population-based study of the clinical course of chronic fatigue syndrome[15] (Full text)
  • 2003, Functional status of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome in the Wichita, Kansas, population[16] (Full text)
  • 2003, Integration of gene expression, clinical, and epidemiologic data to characterize Chronic Fatigue Syndrome[17] (Full text)
  • 2004, Factor analysis of symptoms among subjects with unexplained chronic fatigue: what can we learn about chronic fatigue syndrome?[18] (Abstract)
  • 2004, Regional prevalence of fatiguing illnesses in the United States before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001[19] (Abstract)
  • 2004, Chronic fatigue syndrome and other fatiguing illnesses in adolescents: a population-based study[20] (Abstract)
  • 2004, Sleep assessment in a population-based study of chronic fatigue syndrome[21] (Full text)
  • 2004, Regional distribution of fatiguing illnesses in the United States: a pilot study[22] (Full text)
  • 2004, Neuroendocrine aspects of chronic fatigue syndrome[23] (Abstract)
  • 2005, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A clinically empirical approach to its definition and study.[3] (Full text)
  • 2005, Psychometric properties of the CDC Symptom Inventory for assessment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome[24] (Full Text)
  • 2005, Orthostatic instability in a population-based study of chronic fatigue syndrome[25] (Abstract)
  • 2009, Are chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome valid clinical entities across countries and health-care settings?[26] (Abstract)


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References[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Rosane Nisenbaum". dlsph.utoronto.ca. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  2. "Rosane Nisenbaum | Research at St. Michael's Hospital". stmichaelshospitalresearch.ca. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Reeves, William C.; Wagner, Dieter; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Jones, James F.; Gurbaxani, Brian; Solomon, Laura; Papanicolaou, Dimitris A.; Unger, Elizabeth R.; Vernon, Suzanne D.; Heim, Christine (December 15, 2005). "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A clinically empirical approach to its definition and study". BMC Medicine. 3 (1): 19. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-3-19. ISSN 1741-7015. PMC 1334212. PMID 16356178.
  4. Mawle, A.C.; Nisenbaum, R.; Dobbins, J.G.; Gary, H.E.; Stewart, J.A.; Reyes, M.; Steele, L.; Schmid, D.S.; Reeves, W.C. (December 1995). "Seroepidemiology of chronic fatigue syndrome: a case-control study". Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 21 (6): 1386–1389. ISSN 1058-4838. PMID 8749620.
  5. Mawle, A.C.; Nisenbaum, R.; Dobbins, J.G.; Gary, H.E.; Stewart, J.A.; Reyes, M.; Steele, L.; Schmid, D.S.; Reeves, W.C. (January 1997). "Immune responses associated with chronic fatigue syndrome: a case-control study". The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 175 (1): 136–141. ISSN 0022-1899. PMID 8985207.
  6. Shefer, A.; Dobbins, J.G.; Fukuda, K.; Steele, L.; Koo, D.; Nisenbaum, R.; Rutherford, G.W. (January 1997). "Fatiguing illness among employees in three large state office buildings, California, 1993: was there an outbreak?". Journal of Psychiatric Research. 31 (1): 31–43. ISSN 0022-3956. PMID 9201645.
  7. Nisenbaum, R.; Reyes, M.; Mawle, A.C.; Reeves, W.C. (July 1, 1998). "Factor analysis of unexplained severe fatigue and interrelated symptoms: overlap with criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome". American Journal of Epidemiology. 148 (1): 72–77. ISSN 0002-9262. PMID 9663406.
  8. Fukuda, K.; Nisenbaum, R.; Stewart, G.; Thompson, W.W.; Robin, L.; Washko, R.M.; Noah, D.L.; Barrett, D.H.; Randall, B. (September 16, 1998). "Chronic multisymptom illness affecting Air Force veterans of the Gulf War". JAMA. 280 (11): 981–988. ISSN 0098-7484. PMID 9749480.
  9. Gelman, I. H.; Unger, E.R.; Mawle, A.C.; Nisenbaum, R.; Reeves, W.C. (June 2000). "Chronic fatigue syndrome is not associated with expression of endogenous retroviral p15E". Molecular Diagnosis: A Journal Devoted to the Understanding of Human Disease Through the Clinical Application of Molecular Biology. 5 (2): 155–156. doi:10.1054/xd.2000.7776. ISSN 1084-8592. PMID 11066017.
  10. Nisenbaum, Rosane; Jones, A; Jones, J; Reeves, William (October 1, 2000). "Longitudinal analysis of symptoms reported by patients with chronic fatigue syndrome". Annals of Epidemiology. 10 (7): 458. ISSN 1873-2585. PMID 11018368.
  11. Nisenbaum, Rosane; Barrett, D.H.; Reyes, M.; Reeves, W.C. (May 2000). "Deployment stressors and a chronic multisymptom illness among Gulf War veterans". The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 188 (5): 259–266. ISSN 0022-3018. PMID 10830562.
  12. Reeves, William C.; Minden, Sarah; Gantz, Nelson; Jones, James F.; Abbey, Susan; Stewart, John A.; Randall, Bonnie; Emmons, Carol; Unger, Elizabeth R. (July 14, 2003). "Prevalence and Incidence of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Wichita, Kansas". Archives of Internal Medicine. 163 (13): 1530–1536. doi:10.1001/archinte.163.13.1530. ISSN 0003-9926.
  13. Reeves, W.C.; Lloyd, A.; Vernon, S.D.; Klimas, N.; Jason, L.A.; Bleijenberg, G.; Evengard, B.; White, P.D.; Nisenbaum, R.; Unger, E. (2003), "Identification of ambiguities in the 1994 chronic fatigue syndrome research case definition and recommendations for resolution", BMC Health Services Research, 3 (25), doi:10.1186/1472-6963-3-25
  14. Jones, James F; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Reeves, William C (December 2, 2003). "Medication Use by Persons with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Results of a Randomized Telephone Survey in Wichita, Kansas". Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 1: 74. doi:10.1186/1477-7525-1-74. ISSN 1477-7525. PMID 14651754.
  15. Nisenbaum, Rosane; Jones, James F; Unger, Elizabeth R; Reyes, Michele; Reeves, William C (October 3, 2003). "A population-based study of the clinical course of chronic fatigue syndrome". Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 1: 49. doi:10.1186/1477-7525-1-49. ISSN 1477-7525. PMID 14613572.
  16. Solomon, Laura; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Reyes, Michele; Papanicolaou, Dimitris A.; Reeves, William C. (October 3, 2003). "Functional status of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome in the Wichita, Kansas, population". Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 1: 48. doi:10.1186/1477-7525-1-48. ISSN 1477-7525. PMID 14577835.
  17. Whistler, Toni; Unger, Elizabeth R; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Vernon, Suzanne D (December 1, 2003). "Integration of gene expression, clinical, and epidemiologic data to characterize Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". Journal of Translational Medicine. 1: 10. doi:10.1186/1479-5876-1-10. ISSN 1479-5876. PMID 14641939.
  18. Nisenbaum, R; Reyes, M; Unger, ER; Reeves, W (February 2004). "Factor analysis of symptoms among subjects with unexplained chronic fatigue: what can we learn about chronic fatigue syndrome?". J Psychosom Res. 56 (2): 171-8. doi:10.1016/S0022-3999(03)00039-4. PMID 15016574.
  19. Heim, Christine; Bierl, Cynthia; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Wagner, Dieter; Reeves, William C. (September 2004). "Regional prevalence of fatiguing illnesses in the United States before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001". Psychosomatic Medicine. 66 (5): 672–678. doi:10.1097/01.psy.0000138116.12495.a2. ISSN 1534-7796. PMID 15385690.
  20. Jones, James F.; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Solomon, Laura; Reyes, Michele; Reeves, William C. (July 2004). "Chronic fatigue syndrome and other fatiguing illnesses in adolescents: a population-based study". The Journal of Adolescent Health: Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. 35 (1): 34–40. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2003.09.007. ISSN 1054-139X. PMID 15193572.
  21. Unger, Elizabeth R; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Moldofsky, Harvey; Cesta, Angela; Sammut, Christopher; Reyes, Michele; Reeves, William C (April 19, 2004). "Sleep assessment in a population-based study of chronic fatigue syndrome". BMC Neurology. 4: 6. doi:10.1186/1471-2377-4-6. ISSN 1471-2377. PMID 15096280.
  22. Bierl, Cynthia; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Hoaglin, David C; Randall, Bonnie; Jones, Ann-Britt; Unger, Elizabeth R; Reeves, William C (February 4, 2004). "Regional distribution of fatiguing illnesses in the United States: a pilot study". Population Health Metrics. 2: 1. doi:10.1186/1478-7954-2-1. ISSN 1478-7954. PMID 14761250.
  23. Papanicolaou, Dimitris A.; Amsterdam, Jay D.; Levine, Susan; McCann, Samuel M.; Moore, Rebecca C.; Newbrand, Clare H.; Allen, Glen; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Pfaff, Donald W. (2004). "Neuroendocrine aspects of chronic fatigue syndrome". Neuroimmunomodulation. 11 (2): 65–74. doi:10.1159/000075315. ISSN 1021-7401. PMID 14758052.
  24. Wagner, Dieter; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Heim, Christine; Jones, James F.; Unger, Elizabeth R.; Reeves, William C. (2005). "Psychometric properties of the CDC Symptom Inventory for assessment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". Population Health Metrics. 3 (8): 1. doi:10.1186/1478-7954-3-8.
  25. Jones, James F.; Nicholson, Ainsley; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Papanicolaou, Dimitris A.; Solomon, Laura; Boneva, Roumiana; Heim, Christine; Reeves, William C. (December 2005). "Orthostatic instability in a population-based study of chronic fatigue syndrome". The American Journal of Medicine. 118 (12): 1415. doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.06.013. ISSN 1555-7162. PMID 16378795.
  26. Hickie, Ian; Davenport, Tracey; Vernon, Suzanne D.; Nisenbaum, Rosane; Reeves, William C.; Hadzi-Pavlovic, Dusan; Lloyd, Andrew; International Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Study Group (January 2009). "Are chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome valid clinical entities across countries and health-care settings?". The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 43 (1): 25–35. doi:10.1080/00048670802534432. ISSN 1440-1614. PMID 19085525.