Zaher Nahle

Zaher Nahle, PhD, MPA, is Vice President for Research and Scientific Programs at the Solve ME/CFS Initiative. 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
 * PhD in physiology and biophysics from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Stony Brook University
 * Post-doctoral fellowships at both Harvard and StonyBrook
 * Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from American University of Beirut

Awards

 * Department of Defense Breast Cancer Fellowship Award - Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
 * American Heart Association (AHA) career development award BGIAA
 * National Priorities Research Program - Qatar Foundation
 * American Cancer Society (ACS) Scholar - Outstanding score

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

Interviews & Talks
"ME/CFS: The Mysterious Illness Science Has Yet to Unravel" <ref.http://www.pmwcintl.com/2017duke/sessionthemes-mecfs-the-mysterious-illness-science-has-yet-to-unravel/
 * May 24, 2017 - Speaker at the Personalized Medicine World Conference (PMWC) 2017 at Duke; Topic:
 * Dec 15, 2016 - [[Solve ME/CFS Initiative] Webinar - Progress and Challenges in ME/CFS with Zaher Nahle, PhD, MPA]
 * Nov 19, 2015 - “Get Your Motor Running” – Zaher Nahle Takes on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Cort Johnson

Blog Posts

 * 21 Aug 2015, I Thought It Was a Typo…

Online presence

 * LinkedIn
 * Facebook
 * Twitter