Gijs Bleijenberg

Professor Gijs Bleijenberg‏‎ is professor emeritus at the Expert Centre Chronic Fatigue (NKCV) at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Dr. Bleijenberg‏‎ was born September 3, 1947 in Zeist, Netherlands. He earned an undergraduate degree in psychology from Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht in 1970, then earned a doctorate in medicine in 1987 from Catholic University Nijmegen. He was appointed professor at Radbound University in 2002, and took emeritus status in 2012.

Dr. Bleijenberg serves on the editorial board of the journal, Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior.

Notable studies

 * 1998, The Persistence of Fatigue in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis: The Development of a Model - (Abstract)


 * 2002, Natural course and predicting self-reported improvement in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome with a relatively short illness duration - (Abstract)


 * 2016, The impact of chronic fatigue syndrome on cognitive functioning in adolescents - (Full text)