Vicky Whittemore

Vicky Holets Whittemore, PhD., is a program director of the Channels, Synapses and Circuits Cluster in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. She is the NIH Representative to HHS CFS Advisory Committee, CFSAC, as an ex officio member, and the leader of a Trans-NIH Working Group on ME/CFS.

In June 2016, Whittemore was the keynote speaker at The 11th Invest in ME International ME Conference 2016 in London.

Education

 * Ph.D. in anatomy from the University of Minnesota Medical School
 * Post-doctoral work at the University of California, Irvine
 * Fogarty Fellowship at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden

Notable studies

 * NIH Post-Infectious ME/CFS Study

Talks & interviews

 * 2 Nov 2016, NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call with Dr. Walter Koroshetz, Dr. Vicky Whittemore, Dr. Joseph Breen, and Dr. Avindra Nath - Recorded call and Transcript
 * 27 Oct 2016, IACFS/ME Conference Keynote Presentation - New ME/CFS Developments at the National Institutes of Health
 * 26 Oct 2016, IACFS/ME Pre-conference Event Panelist
 * 3 Jun 2016, Keynote Speaker at the 11th Invest in ME International ME Conference - DVD available
 * 26 May 2016, Transcript of Dr. Vicky Whittemore's ME/CFS proposal to the [[NIH] Council]
 * 2014, 2014 World TSC Conference: Managing Health Issues in Transition from Child to Adulthood in TSC

Online presence

 * NIH Vicky Whittemore
 * PubMed - Vicky Whittemore
 * LinkedIn

Learn more

 * 2016, NIH's initial response to comments and article on Walitt