Derek Pheby

Dr. Derek F. H. Pheby, BSc, MB, BS, LLM, MPhil, FFPH, is a Visiting Professor of Epidemiology, Buckinghamshire New University, Wycombe, England, United Kingdom. He served as the Project Coordinator of the National ME Observatory, a collaborative project involving three universities, aiming to fill gaps in research knowledge, as well as the scientific coordinator of, EUROMENE, a European research network on ME, with some thirty participating institutions in fifteen countries. He was a former member of the Chief Medical Officer’s Working Group on CFS/ME and former trustee of Action for ME.

Pheby initiated the establishment of the ME/CFS Disease Register in the UK by using a READ-code based algorithm on Electronic Medical Records which conformed to certain case definitions for ME/CFS. The ME/CFS Disease Register is used to recruit participants with ME/CFS in an unbiased way from a large population base. Likewise, he is attempting to establish a post-mortem brain and tissue bank for the study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome.

Studies related to ME/CFS

 * 2014, Considerations in establishing a post-mortem brain and tissue bank for the study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A proposed protocol (Full Text)
 * 2014, Use of an online survey to explore positive and negative outcomes of rehabilitation for people with CFS/ME (Abstract)
 * 2011, A Disease Register for ME/CFS: Report of a Pilot Study (Full Text)
 * 2011, Social support needs for equity in health and social care: a thematic analysis of experiences of people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (Full Text)
 * 2010, Severe ME/CFS in Adults-A report from the CHROME Database (Full Text)
 * 2009, Risk factors for severe ME/CFS (Full Text)
 * 2007, The Development of an Epidemiological Definition for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Abstract)
 * 2005, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: a survey of GPs' attitudes and knowledge (Full Text)
 * 2004, Risk Factors for the Development of Severe ME/CFS — A Pilot Study (Abstract)

Talks and Interviews

 * 2013, [[Action for ME] AGM 2013 part three - Research]
 * 2007, Speaker at the 2nd Invest in ME International ME Conference - Epidemiology of ME/CFS - DVD available

Online Presense

 * Derek Pheby Linkedin