David Bell

David S. Bell, MD, is a retired American doctor who had a practice in General Medicine and Pediatrics. He was at the center of the 1985 Lyndonville outbreak of the disease in upper New York state in the United States. Dr. Bell serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Open Medicine Foundation and is a member of the Working Group which offers their expertise and resources to the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University.

International Consensus Criteria
Dr. Bell is one of the authors of the 2011 case definition, International Consensus Criteria.

Pediatric case definition

 * 2006, A Pediatric Case Definition for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text)

Notable studies

 * 2012, Understanding long-term outcomes of chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2009, Severe versus Moderate criteria for the new pediatric case definition for ME/CFS (Abstract)
 * 2006, Guidelines for the Diagnosis of Pediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Things Parents Need to Know (Abstract)
 * 2003, Predictive immunophenotypes: Disease-related profile in chronic fatigue syndrome
 * 2001, Thirteen-Year Follow-Up of Children and Adolescents With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Abstract)
 * 2000, The roles of orthostatic hypotension, orthostatic tachycardia, and subnormal erythrocyte volume in the pathogenesis of the chronic fatigue syndrome (Abstract)
 * 1998, Circulating Blood Volume in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * 1997, Illness Onset Characteristics in Children with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue

Talks and interviews

 * December 2015 - Dr. David Bell, Tunstin, California
 * June 2015 - Dr. David S. Bell, ME/CFS Presentation, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle Washington
 * October, 2011 - Dr. Bell on Norwegian ME chemotherapy drug trial. [English with Norwegian subtitles]
 * May 2011 - Speaker at the 6th Invest in ME International ME Conference - Speech Title: 25 Year Follow-up of ME Patients
 * 2011 Conference DVD


 * January 2010 - Q & A After XMRV Lecture By Dr David Bell part 2
 * January 2010 - Q & A After XMRV Lecture By Dr David Bell part 1
 * 2000 - Documentary, I Remember Me, directed by Kim A. Snyder
 * 1996 - Primetime Live TV Show - Sick and Tired

Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

 * 1995, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Children (Abstract)

Open Medicine Foundation

 * Aug 1, 2016, Prognosis of ME/CFS

Health Rising

 * Oct 4, 2015, Dr. Bell on Understanding Orthostatic Intolerance in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
 * Oct 2, 2015, When Panic Isn't: Dr. Bell on Maggie's ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia Story
 * Sept 30, 2015, Dr. David Bell on Low Blood Volume in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
 * Aug 18, 2015, Dr. Bell's Home Orthostatic Intolerance (OI) Test

Books

 * Neuro-immune fatigue ME/CFS/FM and cellular hypoxia, David Bell - WingSpan Press - 2007
 * Faces of CFS: case studies of chronic fatigue syndrome, David Bell - The Author - 2000
 * A parents' guide to CFIDS: how to be an advocate for your child with chronic fatigue immune dysfunction, David Bell - Haworth Medical Press - 1999
 * The doctor's guide to chronic fatigue syndrome: understanding, treating, and living with CFIDS, David Bell - Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. - 1994
 * Curing fatigue: a step-by-step plan to uncover and eliminate the causes of chronic fatigue, David Bell - Stef Donev - Rodale Press - 1993
 * The disease of a thousand names: CFIDS--chronic fatigue/immune dysfunction syndrome, David Bell - Unknown Binding – 1991

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. Bell, 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

Online presence

 * PubMed - DS Bell

Learn more

 * Wikipedia - David Sheffield Bell
 * 2016, Dr. David Bell Joins OMF Scientific Advisory Board (see Open Medicine Foundation)
 * 1990, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome