Zaher Nahle

Zaher Nahle, PhD, MPA, is Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) and Vice President for Research at Solve ME/CFS Initiative. Dr. Nahle was previously was an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Education

 * Master in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2013)
 * PhD in physiology and biophysics from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Stony Brook University (2003)
 * Post-doctoral fellowships at both Harvard and StonyBrook (2003-04)
 * Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from American University of Beirut (1995)

Awards

 * Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PEER White Label Award - for the establishment and implementation of a national Patient Registry and Electronic Health Information (EHI) system for ME/CFS (2016)
 * Harvard Kennedy School, Merit Scholarship (2013)
 * American Cancer Society (ACS) Scholar - Outstanding score (2011)
 * National Priorities Research Program - Qatar Foundation (2010)
 * American Heart Association (AHA) career development award BGIA - Outstanding score (2008)
 * Department of Defense Breast Cancer Fellowship Award - Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (2000)

National Committees & Advocacy

 * Member – National Institutes of Health (NIH) ME/CFS Common Data Element (CDE) Initiative (January 2017 – present)
 * Member -Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) Technical Development Working Group (October 2016 – present)
 * 18 May 2017 – Congressional Briefing on ME/CFS - Recording of Congressional Briefing on ME/CFS - (Slides of briefing)
 * 17 May 2017 – Rare Disease Legislative Advocates (RDLA), EveryLife Foundation legislative meeting in Washington, DC – Ensuring NIH Funding Benefits Science and Discovery in Rare and Neglected Diseases
 * 8 March 2017 – Written Public Testimony from the Solve ME/CFS Initiative to the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor Health & Human Services

Interviews & Talks

 * 17 October 2017 – White House Chronicle with Llewellyn King - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: a disease hidden in plain sight
 * 14 October 2017 – Convener of the Solve ME/CFS Initiative Discovery Forum 2017: A New Era in ME/CFS Research – Editorial Letter from Dr. Nahle and Presentation Summaries from the Discovery Forum
 * 31 May 2017 – Speaker at the 7th Invest in ME Colloquium in London – Biomarkers in ME/CFS
 * 24 May 2017 - Speaker at the Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC) 2017 at Duke - Topic: ME/CFS: The Mysterious Illness Science Has Yet to Unravel
 * 25 January 2017 – Session Chair at the 2017 Precision Medicine World Conference in Silicon Valley – Topic: ME/CFS: The Mysterious Illness Science Has Yet to Unravel
 * 15 December 2016 - Solve ME/CFS Initiative Webinar - Progress and Challenges in ME/CFS with Zaher Nahle, PhD, MPA
 * 19 November 2015 - “Get Your Motor Running” – Zaher Nahle Takes on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Cort Johnson

Open Letter to The Lancet
Two open letters to the editor of The Lancet urged the editor to commission a fully independent review of the PACE trial, which the journal had published in 2011. In 2016, Dr. Nahle, along with 41 colleagues in the ME/CFS field, signed the second letter.
 * 10 February 2016, An open letter to The Lancet, again - Virology blog

Blog Posts & Editorials (selected)
2017 2016 2015
 * 21 September 2017, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * 19 July 2017, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * 14 April 2017, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * Spring 2017 SMCI Chronicle, 7 Research Lessons from the Lab Bench of Dr. Nahle
 * 10 February 2017, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * 16 December 2016, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * 11 November 2016, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * 16 September 2016, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * 12 August 2016, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * 6 May 2016, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * 15 April 2016, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * 9 February 2016, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * Winter 2015 Chronicle, Overcoming the Challenges of a Complex Disease
 * 4 December 2015, SMCI Research 1st Letter
 * 14 September 2015, Did Darwin Have ME/CFS?
 * 21 August 2015, I Thought It Was a Typo…
 * 7 August 2015, SMCI Research 1st Letter

Online presence

 * LinkedIn
 * Facebook
 * Twitter