Kim McCleary

K. Kim McCleary is the Managing Director of FasterCures.

She served as the CEO of Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association of America or CFIDS Association of America (now the Solve ME/CFS Initiative) for 22 years, from 1991 until June 2013. During that time the Association was instrumental in developing a policy ruling for the Social Security Administration that recognized CFS as a disabling condition; fought to create CFSAC, the ME/CFS advisory committee to the Health and Human Services Department; exposed the CDC's misappropriation of millions of dollars designated by Congress for CFS research; and led fundraising and public awareness campaigns.