Melvin Ramsay

Background on Dr Melvin Ramsay, consultant physician in Infectious Diseases.

He helped create the ME Association in 1978.

Author of Postviral Fatigue Syndrome: The saga of Royal Free Disease (1986). In the foreword to this book, consultant neurologist Peter Behan wrote:

''Dr Melvin Ramsay knows the whole saga: he was one of the pioneers involved in the investigation of the first outbreak, he realized that the disease was organic and he has made a life-time study of its protean manifestations. The disease follows viral infections, and laboratories on each side of the Atlantic have now provided convincing evidence that these patients do have histological, electrophysiological and immunological abnormalities. Scientists have recently come to the aid of Dr Ramsay in identifying the many complications, and especially the subtle abnormalities in cellular function, which may be associated with chronic viral illnesses. ''