Charles Shepherd

Charles Shepherd, MB, BS, is the Honorary Medical Adviser to the ME Association, a patient charity in London, United Kingdom and the co-author of ME/CFS/PVFS: An Exploration of Key Clinical Issues. He was on the Steering Committee of the National ME Observatory, a collaborative research project in the UK. His special interest in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) stems from having developed the illness after a bout of chickenpox.

Dr. Shepherd appears in the 2012 BBC Alba (Scotland, UK) documentary Toxic Tiredness about ME/CFS.

Book

 * Living with ME

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. Shepherd, 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

Response to Institute of Medicine report

 * 11 February 2015, Written comments by Dr Charles Shepherd, Honorary Medical Adviser, ME Association

Media coverage

 * 2016, Dr. Shepherd and Patient Ginger @1:10 (BBC Radio London - Jo Good, UK, 8 Aug 2016)
 * 2015, It’s time for doctors to apologise to their ME patients (Telegraph, UK, 7 Dec 2015)

8 short web seminars by Science to patients / wetenschap voor patienten, english spoken, nederlands ondertiteld

 * 2014, 35. Introduction experience with ME / introductie ervaring met ME - Dr. Charles Shepherd
 * 2014, 36. What is the difference between ME and CFS/ME? / Wat is het verschil tussen ME en CVS/ME? - Dr. Charles Shepherd
 * 2014, 37. How is ME diagnosed? / Hoe wordt ME gediagnosticeed? - Dr. Charles Shepherd
 * 2014, 38. ME and it's triggers / uUitlokkende factoren en ME - Dr. Charles Shephard
 * 2014, 39. ME, exercise and the mitochondria / ME, inspanning en de mitochondrien - Dr. Charles Shepherd
 * 2014, 40. ME and possible treatments / ME en mogelijke behandelingen - Dr. Charles Shepherd
 * 2014, 41. Promising discoveries and research / veelbelovende behandelingen en onderzoe - Dr. Charles Shepherd
 * 2014, 42. State of affairs regarding ME/ Stand van zaken betreffende ME - Dr. Charles Shepherd

Learn more

 * Documentary Toxic Tiredness, Part 1
 * Documentary Toxic Tiredness, Part 2