Mary Dimmock

Mary Dimmock worked in the pharmaceutical industry but later became a patient advocate after her son, Matthew Lazell-Fairman, became sick in 2010. Her advocacy work includes: authoring papers on the history, disease burden, and common data elements for research of ME/CFS; participating in government committees; and public speaking.

Thirty Years of Disdain
In 2015, Mary published an extensively referenced advocacy paper with her son, documenting the history of the disease since the 1980s, "Thirty Years of Disdain: How HHS and A Group of Psychiatrists Buried Myalgic Encephalomyelitis."

Studies

 * 2017, Public Review - Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Common Data Elements (CDE); Fatigue Subgroup Materials] by David Cella, PhD (Chair), Mary Dimmock, Fred Friedberg, PhD, Jin-Mann Sally Lin, PhD, Luis Nacul, MD, PhD, and Leorey Saligan, RN, PhD (Full Text)
 * 2016, Estimating the disease burden of ME/CFS in the United States and its relation to research funding (Full Text)

Talks & interviews

 * 2016, [[ME/CFS Alert] Episode 78 - Mary Dimmock]
 * 2015, White House Chronicle, 7044 - [[Llewellyn King] interviews Mary Dimmock]
 * Jan 2014, Mary Dimmock Comments to IOM Committee

HHS/CFSAC Testimony

 * CFSAC Public Testimony at May 2016 CFSAC Meeting
 * CFSAC Public Testimony at Dec 2014 CFSAC Meeting
 * CFSAC Public Testimony at Jun 2014 CFSAC Meeting
 * CFSAC Public Testimony at Dec 2013 CFSAC Meeting
 * CFSAC Public Testimony at May 2013 CFSAC Meeting
 * CFSAC Public Testimony at Nov 2011 CFSAC Meeting

Online presence

 * Twitter
 * Facebook
 * LinkedIn
 * Website/Blog
 * YouTube

Learn more

 * 2016, Is chronic fatigue syndrome finally being taken seriously?