Ellen Goudsmit

Dr Ellen Goudsmit is a retired health psychologist. She has been disabled since childhood. She was previously an advisor to the charity now known as Action for ME and the ME Association.

Dr Goudsmit wrote a paper detailing her accusation that the British Medical Journal had displayed bias towards the psychological model of ME and CFS. . She also co-authored a paper of the bias in the Lancet (also accessible on David Axford's site: ME Research online)

She has published several papers on ME and CFS including the first description of progressive ME Howes, S and Goudsmit, EM. Progressive Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) or a New Disease? A Case Report. Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation- International, 2015, Vol. 2, Issue 6. She is also one of the authors of the 2014 London criteria, a definition of myalgic encephalomyelitis for use in research.

Letters

 * Response to article in the magazine published by the UK charity MCS-Aware

Learn more

 * PACE Trial the Flaws - PDF

Online presence

 * PubMed - Ellen Goudsmit
 * Twitter
 * Ellen Goudsmit blog - it's not like this in the textbooks
 * Ellen Goudsmit CV
 * ME List