Kim McCleary

K. Kim McCleary, also known as K. Kimberly Kenney, is the Managing Director of FasterCures, a Center of the Milken Institute that works to speed and improve the medical research system.

From 1991 until June 2013, she served as President and CEO of the Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of America, often abbreviated CFIDS Association of America or CAA, (now the Solve ME/CFS Initiative). During her tenure the Association was instrumental in developing the 1998 policy ruling for the Social Security Administration that first recognized CFS as a disabling condition; fought to create CFSAC, the ME/CFS advisory committee to the Health and Human Services Department; exposed the CDC's misappropriation of $12.9 millions of dollars designated for CFS program and worked with the agency and members of Congress, including, Senator Harry Reid, to restore those funds to research and awareness activities; helped launch the Research Institute Without Walls with Dr. Suzanne Vernon; organized lobby days; and led numerous fundraising and public awareness campaigns.

As with so many of the illness's most dedicated champions, McCleary has a family member who has ME/CFS.

Awards

 * 2001, Special Service Award awarded by International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (IACFS/ME)

CFSAC testimony

 * May 2011, Written testimony
 * Oct 2010, Public testimony
 * May 2010, Written testimony
 * Oct 2009, Written testimony
 * May 2009, Written testimony

Articles

 * 6 Must-Do Steps to Strengthen Patient-Centricity in 2016, by Kim McCleary

Notable studies

 * 2014, No association found between the detection of either xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus or polytropic murine leukemia virus and chronic fatigue syndrome in a blinded, multi-site, prospective study by the establishment and use of the SolveCFS BioBank (Full Text)

Learn more

 * 24 Apr 2013, "End of an Era: Kim McCleary Steps Down After 22 Years at the Helm of the CFIDS Association of America (CAA)," by Cort Johnson

Online presence

 * Twitter
 * LinkedIn