Susan Levine



Susan M. Levine, MD, works with ME/CFS patients at her medical office in New York City, New York, United States.

Dr. Levine is a clinician for the Center for Enervating NeuroImmune Disease at Cornell University, New York and is a member of the Working Group which offers their expertise and resources to the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University.

Education

 * Albert Einstein School of Medicine, graduated in 1981
 * residency in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, NYC
 * fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC
 * fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC

IOM Committee on Diagnostic Criteria for ME/CFS
Dr Levine was a reviewer for the 2015 report produced by the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Diagnostic Criteria for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee
She served on the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC) which advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 10 May 2010 to 10 May 2017, her term having been extended twice. From 2014 to 2017 she served as the committee chair.

ME/CFS Common Data Element (CDE) Project
Member of the Sleep Working Group of the Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Common Data Element (CDE) Project sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Notable studies and articles

 * 1999, Borna Disease Virus Proteins in Patients with CFS
 * 2001, Prevalence of IgM and IgG Antibody to HHV-6 and HHV-8 and Results of Plasma PCR to HHV-6 and HHV-7 in a Group of CFS Patients and Healthy Donors - (Abstract)
 * 2001, Prevalence in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of the Following Infectious Agents in a Cohort of 12 CFS Subjects: Human Herpes Virus-6 and 8; Chlamydia Species; Mycoplasma Species; EBV; CMV; and Coxsackievirus
 * 2004, Immunologic Aspects of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Report on a Research Symposium Convened by The CFIDS Association of America and Co-Sponsored by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health - (Abstract)
 * 2012, A Multicenter Blinded Analysis Indicates No Association between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and either Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus or Polytropic Murine Leukemia Virus - (Full Text)
 * 2015, Findings from a clinical and laboratory database developed for discovery of pathogenic mechanisms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - (Abstract)
 * 2015, Chronic fatigue syndrome and co-morbid and consequent conditions: evidence from a multi-site clinical epidemiology study - (Abstract)
 * 2015, Distinct plasma immune signatures in ME/CFS are present early in the course of illness - (Full text)
 * 2016, Reduced diversity and altered composition of the gut microbiome in individuals with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - (Full Text)
 * 2017, Fecal metagenomic profiles in subgroups of patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - (Full Text)
 * 2017, Metabolic profiling of a myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome discovery cohort reveals disturbances in fatty acid and lipid metabolism - (Abstract)
 * 2018, KPAX002 as a treatment for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): A prospective, randomized trial - (Full Text)
 * 2018, Eukaryotes in the gut microbiota in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - (Full text)
 * 2018, Insights into myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome phenotypes through comprehensive metabolomics - (Full Text)
 * 2018, Prospective Biomarkers from Plasma Metabolomics of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Implicate Redox Imbalance in Disease Symptomatology - (Full Text)
 * 2018, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: What Every Family Physician Needs to Know - (Full text)
 * 2020, Comprehensive Circulatory Metabolomics in ME/CFS Reveals Disrupted Metabolism of Acyl Lipids and Steroids - (Full text)
 * 2020, Cytokine profiling of extracellular vesicles isolated from plasma in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome: A pilot study - (Full text)
 * 2022, Plasma metabolomics reveals disrupted response and recovery following maximal exercise in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - (Full text)

Clinic location

 * 115 E 72nd St.,
 * New York, NY 10021
 * Tel: (212) 472-4816

Talks and interviews

 * 17 Mar 2016, Solve ME/CFS Initiative Webinar - "The Future of ME/CFS"
 * Part 1 - Written questions and answers to Dr. Levine's webinar
 * Part 2 - Written questions and answers to Dr. Levine's webinar


 * 20 Apr 2017, Solve ME/CFS Initiative Webinar - "A 360° Approach to Solve ME/CFS"
 * 25 Sep 2018, ME/CFS Alert Episode 101 - Interviewed by Llewellyn King

Open Letter to The Lancet
Two open letters to the editor of The Lancet urged the editor to commission a fully independent review of the PACE trial, which the journal had published in 2011. In 2016, Dr. Levine, along with 41 colleagues in the ME/CFS field, signed the second letter.
 * 10 February 2016, An open letter to The Lancet, again - Virology blog

Online presence

 * Chronic Fatigue Initiative - Susan M. Levine, MD
 * PubMed - Susan Levine