Eliana Lacerda

Eliana Lacerda, MD, MSc, PhD, researches Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as part of the initiative Cure ME, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. She oversees the UK ME/CFS Biobank processes regarding recruitment of participants to release of samples to lab-based research teams.

EUROMENE
Dr. Lacerda is the vice chair of the Management Committee of EUROMENE, a European Union not-for-profit research organization committed to tackling the cause and treatment for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and was the impetus to the program being started.

Notable studies

 * 2018, Functional Status and Well-Being in People with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Compared with People with Multiple Sclerosis and Healthy Controls (Full Text)
 * 2017, How have selection bias and disease misclassification undermined the validity of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome studies? (Full Text)
 * 2017, The European ME/CFS Biomarker Landscape project: an initiative of the European network EUROMENE (Full Text)
 * 2017, Editorial - Using a participatory approach to develop and implement the UK ME/CFS Biobank
 * 2014, Considerations in establishing a post-mortem brain and tissue bank for the study of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A proposed protocol (Full Text)
 * 2011, A Disease Register for ME/CFS: Report of a Pilot Study (Full Text)
 * 2011, Social support needs for equity in health and social care: a thematic analysis of experiences of people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (Full Text)
 * 2011, Prevalence of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in three regions of England: a repeated cross-sectional study in primary care (Full Text)
 * 2011, The functional status and well being of people with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome and their carers (Full Text)
 * 2010, Exploring the feasibility of establishing a disease-specific post-mortem tissue bank in the UK: a case study in ME/CFS (Abstract)

Online presence

 * PubMed
 * London School of Tropical Medicine Bio

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