Paul Cheney

Paul R. Cheney, MD, PhD, was a physician of Internal Medicine who was at the center of the chronic fatigue syndrome outbreak of the disease in Incline Village, Nevada at Lake Tahoe with Dr. Daniel Peterson in 1984 to 1987. Later, he moved to North Carolina and shared a medical practice from 1992 to 1995 with Dr. Charles Lapp. He resided and practiced medicine in Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. Cheney passed away on June 16, 2021.

Cheney was a founding Director of the American Association of CFS, now called the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. He was a provider of Ampligen for a clinical trial while in North Carolina.

In 2010 at the Invest in ME International ME Conference, regarding Graded exercise therapy, Dr Paul Cheney said

In 2016, the Open Medicine Foundation announced that Dr. Cheney would participate in the ME/CFS Metabolomics study with Dr. Robert Naviaux, Dr. Ronald Davis, and Dr. Eric Gordon.

Education

 * MD - Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
 * PhD in physics - Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Anesthesia letter

 * Anesthesia letter to other physicians

Notable studies

 * 1992, A chronic illness characterized by fatigue, neurologic and immunologic disorders, and active human herpesvirus type 6 infection
 * 1992, Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Virologic Studies in Four Clusters of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Abstract - can request full article)

Clinic location

 * The Cheney Clinic
 * 1 Vanderbilt Park Dr #120
 * Asheville, North Carolina, 28803

Talks and interviews

 * 1993, Testimony Before the FDA Scientific Advisory Committee
 * 1996, Primetime Live TV Show - Sick and Tired - Incline Village Outbreak
 * 2010, Speaker at the 5th Invest in ME International ME Conference on Diastolic Dysfunction in ME/CFS: A Cardiac Manifestation of Cellular Energy Defects in ME/CFS DVD available
 * 2013, "Compassionate Use Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome using both chemical and probiotic (MAF 314) forms of GcMAF" Seminar - Part 1 Seminar - Part 2 Seminar - Q&A

Quotes

 * 1996, Primetime Live TV Show - Sick and Tired - Incline Village Outbreak We took a stack of them [brain MRIs] to a neuroradiologist and show them to him and he said 'very interesting, let me show you these' and I said 'yeah, that's looks just like mine' and I said 'who are these' and he said 'these are AIDS patients'

Online presence

 * PubMed
 * Website

Learn more

 * 1990, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * 20 Jul 2009, Dr. Paul Cheney, MD, PhD – A Pioneer Still at the Forefront of ME/CFS Research, by cort Johnson
 * 27 April 2013, Dr. Paul Cheney's Latest Observations, Research, Treatments, and Thoughts on ME/CFS by MD with ME
 * 25 Aug 2014, The Cheney Chronicles #2: His Protocol For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Chris
 * 22 May 2014, From Mono To Giardia To Orthostatic Intolerance to … Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Dr. Cheney: the First Visit by Chris
 * 23 Jun 2015, The Cheney Chronicles #3: One Year Later – Decision Time