Rosane Nisenbaum

Rosane Nisenbaum is Assistant Professor in Biostatistics at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Canada and Associate Scientist at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital.

Education
She earned a BS in statistics and an MS in operations research at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, then a PhD in biostatistics, University of California at Los Angeles, USA.

ME/CFS
Nisenbaum was a co-author of the Reeves criteria (sometimes called the "empirical definition"), proposed in a 2005 article in BMC Medicine.

Notable studies related to ME/CFS

 * 1997, Fatiguing illness among employees in three large state office buildings, California, 1993: was there an outbreak? (Abstract)
 * 1998, Factor analysis of unexplained severe fatigue and interrelated symptoms: overlap with criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome (Abstract)
 * 1998, Chronic multisymptom illness affecting Air Force veterans of the Gulf War (Abstract)
 * 2000, Chronic fatigue syndrome is not associated with expression of endogenous retroviral p15E
 * 2000, Longitudinal analysis of symptoms reported by patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (Abstract)
 * 2000, Deployment stressors and a chronic multisymptom illness among Gulf War veterans
 * 2003, Prevalence and Incidence of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Wichita, Kansas (Full Text)
 * 2003, Identification of ambiguities in the 1994 chronic fatigue syndrome research case definition and recommendations for resolution (Full Text)
 * 2003, Medication use by persons with chronic fatigue syndrome: results of a randomized telephone survey in Wichita, Kansas (Full text)
 * 2003, A population-based study of the clinical course of chronic fatigue syndrome (Full text)
 * 2003, Functional status of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome in the Wichita, Kansas, population (Full text)
 * 2003, Integration of gene expression, clinical, and epidemiologic data to characterize Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full text)
 * 2004, Factor analysis of symptoms among subjects with unexplained chronic fatigue: what can we learn about chronic fatigue syndrome? (Abstract)
 * 2004, Regional prevalence of fatiguing illnesses in the United States before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (Abstract)
 * 2004, Chronic fatigue syndrome and other fatiguing illnesses in adolescents: a population-based study (Abstract)
 * 2004, Sleep assessment in a population-based study of chronic fatigue syndrome (Full text)
 * 2004, Regional distribution of fatiguing illnesses in the United States: a pilot study (Full text)
 * 2004, Neuroendocrine aspects of chronic fatigue syndrome (Abstract)
 * 2005, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – A clinically empirical approach to its definition and study. (Full text)
 * 2005, Psychometric properties of the CDC Symptom Inventory for assessment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Full Text)
 * 2005, Orthostatic instability in a population-based study of chronic fatigue syndrome (Abstract)
 * 2009, Are chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome valid clinical entities across countries and health-care settings? (Abstract)

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