James Baraniuk

James Nicholas Baraniuk, MD, is an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University and the Director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, located within the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center does research on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness and other pain conditions, particularly in the areas of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), biomarker discovery through proteomic, metabolomic, and transcriptomic assays in blood and cereobrospinal fluid, autonomic testing and heart rate variability (HRV) and statistical analyses using machine learning, hierarchical clustering, and other data mining methods.

Education

 * 1972-1976 - B. Sc. (Hons.), Joint Honours in Chemistry and Microbiology, Dean's Honour List, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
 * 1978-1979 - B. Sc. (Medicine), University of Manitoba
 * 1977-1981 - M. D., University of Manitoba
 * 1981-1982 - Internship, Saint Thomas Hospital Medical Center, Akron, Ohio
 * 1982-1984 - Internal Medicine Resident, Saint Thomas Hospital Medical Center, Akron, Ohio
 * 1984-1985 - Senior Assistant Resident in Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
 * 1985-1987 - Fellowship in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Duke University Medical Center

Positions of Employment

 * 1987-1989 - Adjunct Scientist, Allergy Disease Section, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Bethesda, MD
 * 1989-1991 - Visiting Clinical Scientist, Thoracic Medicine Department, National Heart and Lung Institute, London, England
 * 1991-present - Department of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Publications related to ME/CFS

 * Rayhan, R. U., Ravindran, M. K., & Baraniuk, J. N. (2013). Migraine in gulf war illness and chronic fatigue syndrome: Prevalence, potential mechanisms, and evaluation. Frontiers in Physiology Front. Physiol., 4. doi:10.3389/fphys.2013.00181 Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23898301.

Learn More

 * Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Georgetown University
 * Active Research Studies currently recruiting subjects