Daniel Peterson

Daniel L. Peterson, MD, is a physician in Incline Village, Nevada specializing in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). He was at the epicenter of the 1984 Incline Village chronic fatigue syndrome outbreak and continues to be a leader in treatment and research about ME/CFS, serving on Simmaron Research’s Scientific Advisory Board and the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.

He helped establish the Whittemore Peterson Institute (WPI) which was renamed in 2016 to the Nevada Center for Biomedical Research. He left in 2010 to return to private practice at Sierra Internal Medicine, Incline Village, Nevada.

In 2003, he co-authored the Canadian Consensus Criteria for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, published as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:Clinical Working Case Definition, Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols. Other authors include: Bruce Carruthers, Anil Kumar Jain, Kenny de Meirleir, Nancy Klimas, A Martin Lerner, Alison Bested, Pierre Flor-Henry, Pradip Joshi, A C Peter Powles, Jeffrey Sherkey, Marjorie van de Sande

Dr. Peterson was the first physician to use Ampligen, an immunomodulator made by Hemispherx Biopharma, in the treatment for ME/CFS, using it on Nancy Kaiser, a very severe patient. He has participated in every Ampligen trial since, up to the AMP-511, open label, cost-recovery trial available today.

Several documentaries about myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) have featured Dr. Peterson, including, I Remember Me and Forgotten Plague, and the news feature, Sick and Tired.

Awards

 * 2003, Rudy Perpich Senior Lectureship Award, presented to a distinguished CFS/FM scientist, physician or healthcare worker awarded by IACFS/ME
 * 2007, Nelson Gantz Outstanding Clinician Award awarded to a physician who emulates Nelson Gantz's clinical acumen, his passion for medicine, and his empathy for persons with CFS/FM awarded by IACFS/ME

Notable studies

 * 2017, Fecal metagenomic profiles in subgroups of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2017, Multi-Site Clinical Assessment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (MCAM): Design and Implementation of a Prospective/Retrospective Rolling Cohort Study (Full Text)
 * 2016, Cytokine network analysis of cerebrospinal fluid in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (Abstract)
 * 2015, Cytokines in the Cerebrospinal Fluids of Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Full Text)
 * 2015, Findings from a clinical and laboratory database developed for discovery of pathogenic mechanisms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (Abstract)
 * 2015, Chronic fatigue syndrome and co-morbid and consequent conditions: evidence from a multi-site clinical epidemiology study Abstract
 * 2015, Distinct plasma immune signatures in ME/CFS are present early in the course of illness (Full Text)
 * 2012, A Multicenter Blinded Analysis Indicates No Association between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and either Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus or Polytropic Murine Leukemia Virus (Abstract)
 * 2012, A double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized, clinical trial of the TLR-3 agonist rintatolimod in severe cases of chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2003, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Clinical Working Case Definition, Diagnostic and Treatment Protocols (Abstract)
 * 2001, Neuromyasthenia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in Northern Nevada/California: A Ten-Year Follow-Up of an Outbreak (Abstract)
 * 1997, Editorial - Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Disability (Abstract)
 * 1995, Long Term Improvements in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Treated with Ampligen (Abstract)
 * 1992, A chronic illness characterized by fatigue, neurologic and immunologic disorders, and active human herpesvirus type 6 infection (Abstract)
 * 1992, Clinical, Epidemiologic, and Virologic Studies in Four Clusters of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Abstract - can request full article)

ME/CFS Alert

 * 2013, Episode 50, ME/CFS Alert interview
 * 2012, Episode 26, ME/CFS Alert interview

Invest in ME International ME Conference

 * 2013, Speaker at the 8th Invest in ME International ME Conference on Key Note Speech: The Mainstreaming of ME Research DVD available
 * 2012, Speaker at the 7th Invest in ME International ME Conference on Clinical Research Update 2012 DVD available
 * 2009, Speaker at the 4th Invest in ME International ME Conference on Treatment Regimes for the Most Severe Cases DVD available
 * 2007, Speaker at the 2nd Invest in ME International ME Conference on Biomedical Research DVD available

Other

 * 2015, 2015 De osynliga -Seminarium om ME/CFS, Sweden 19 October
 * 2012, Phoenix Rising - Dr Daniel Peterson (July 12)
 * 2011, Dr. med. Dan Peterson (Simmaron Research) - Diagnose und Behandlung von ME/CFS, Teil 2
 * 2011, Dr. med. Dan Peterson (Simmaron Research) - Diagnose und Behandlung von ME/CFS, Teil 1
 * 2000 Documentary, I Remember Me, directed by Kim A. Snyder
 * 1996, Primetime Live TV Show - Sick and Tired

Online presence

 * Profile
 * PubMed

Learn more

 * Wikipedia - Daniel Peterson (physician)
 * 1990, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome