Nancy Klimas



Dr Nancy Klimas is an American researcher and physician at the Institute for Neuro Immune Medicine at Nova Southeastern University in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

She was one of the experts on the "Committee on the Diagnostic Criteria for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" that was convened for the 2015 Institute of Medicine report.

Notable studies

 * Illness progression in chronic fatigue syndrome: a shifting immune baseline
 * In 2016, Dr. Nancy Klimas, Dr. Irma Rey and several other researchers studied patients who developed gastroparesis following a viral history of flu-like symptoms or gastroenteritis. Nine at of the eleven patients studied (82 %) had active enterovirus infection on gastric biopsies.  The study conclusion was that "antiviral and/or immune therapies against enterovirus seem to be favorable, as most of our patients had resolution of their gastroparesis symptoms after treatment. This is the first study to identify enterovirus as a possible infectious etiology of idiopathic gastroparesis.

Interviews & talks
There are many videos on YouTube of Nancy Klimas speaking about her work.


 * 2014 ME/CFS Diagnosis and Name with Dr. Nancy Klimas
 * 2011 ME/CFS Management A Pathogenesis Based Approach (sponsored by ANZMES)

Quotations

 * "They experience a level of disability equal to that of patients with late-stage AIDS and patients undergoing chemotherapy"

Online presence

 * PubMed - Nancy Klimas
 * Nova Southeasterm University - Nancy Klimas