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==Advocacy work== Wendy guest blogged for ''[[Just ME]]'' on 12 May 2014 where she discussed [[Sophia Mirza]]'s death, the image problem cause by the trivializing disease name and outdated psychological explanations of its etiology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sallyjustme.blogspot.com/2014/05/WendyBoutilier.html | title = Just ME: Guest Post from Wendy Boutilier - ME Awareness | last =Burch| first = Sally | date = 2014-05-12 | website = Just ME|access-date=2021-04-27}}</ref> She highlighted Dr. [[Kenny de Meirleir]]'s work and outlined [[List of abnormal findings in chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis|biomedical abnormalities]] caused by the illness. She admins on several ME Support facebook pages and is an active [[ME activists and advocates|ME advocate]].<ref name="sally">{{Cite web|url=http://sallyjustme.blogspot.com/2014/05/WendyBoutilier.html | title = Just ME: Guest Post from Wendy Boutilier - ME Awareness | last =Burch| first = Sally | date = 2014-05-12 | website = Just ME|access-date=2019-10-10}}</ref> Boutilier created art projects called ''Tears for ME'', Blue Roses, Elephant in the Room to honour those who have lost their lives to ME. She grants permission for all awareness graphics to be used to promote the suffering of ME, specifically on social media for May 12th Awareness Events, sponsored by the [[May12th.org]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.meadvocacy.org/may_12_events | title = May 12th Awareness Events 2015 | last =|first = | last2 = | first2 = |website=MEadvocacy.org|access-date=2019-10-10}}</ref> Advocates for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, raising awareness for the [[25 Percent ME Group|25% ME Group]] charity and [[Severe ME Awareness Day]]. In 2016, she wrote to the Canadian Federal Minister of Health after the Canadian Institute of Health Research denied a grant for ME based on a [[Biopsychosocial model|psychological approach]] to the illness and stating that their denial cited erroneous and outdated research. In her letter she urged the ministry to adopt the [[International Consensus Criteria]] 2011 definition and diagnostic code for ME.<ref name=":0" /> She has also been published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal with respect to treatment of ME.{{citation needed}} She urged the medical profession to remove recommendations for GET and CBT treatments since the [[PACE trial]] research study was found to lack good science. Boutilier has also been published on the [[Stonebird]] website, writing about the UK on the cost of ME.{{citation needed}}
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