James Baraniuk

James Nicholas Baraniuk, MD, is an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University and the Director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, located within the Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center does research on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness and other pain conditions, particularly in the areas of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), biomarker discovery through proteomic, metabolomic, and transcriptomic assays in blood and cereobrospinal fluid, autonomic testing and heart rate variability (HRV) and statistical analyses using machine learning, hierarchical clustering, and other data mining methods.

Education

 * 1972-1976 - B. Sc. (Hons.), Joint Honours in Chemistry and Microbiology, Dean's Honour List, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
 * 1978-1979 - B. Sc. (Medicine), University of Manitoba
 * 1977-1981 - M. D., University of Manitoba
 * 1981-1982 - Internship, Saint Thomas Hospital Medical Center, Akron, Ohio
 * 1982-1984 - Internal Medicine Resident, Saint Thomas Hospital Medical Center, Akron, Ohio
 * 1984-1985 - Senior Assistant Resident in Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
 * 1985-1987 - Fellowship in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Duke University Medical Center

Positions of Employment

 * 1987-1989 - Adjunct Scientist, Allergy Disease Section, Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Bethesda, MD
 * 1989-1991 - Visiting Clinical Scientist, Thoracic Medicine Department, National Heart and Lung Institute, London, England
 * 1991-present - Department of Medicine, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Publications related to ME/CFS

 * 2013, Migraine in gulf war illness and chronic fatigue syndrome: Prevalence, potential mechanisms, and evaluation.
 * 2013, A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) severity score based on case designation criteria.
 * 2012, Dyspnea in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS): Comparison of Two Prospective Cross-Sectional Studies.
 * 2012, No serological evidence for a role of HHV-6 infection in chronic fatigue syndrome.
 * 2011, Migraine headaches in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS): comparison of two prospective cross-sectional studies.
 * 2005, A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - related proteome in human cerebrospinal fluid.

Talks and Interviews

 * 2016, 11th Invest in ME International ME Conference 2016 Exercise testing and Orthostatic Tachycardia
 * 2014, 9th Invest in ME International ME Conference 2014 (no speech title given)
 * 2013, Georgetown University to Study Post-Exertional Malaise
 * 2012, 7th Invest in ME International ME Conference 2012 (no speech title given)
 * 2011, 6th Invest in ME International ME Conference 2011 Cerebrospinal Biomarkers for ME/CFS

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. Baraniuk, along with 42 colleagues in the ME/CFS field, signed the second letter.
 * 10 February 2016, An open letter to The Lancet, again - Virology blog

Learn More

 * Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center, Georgetown University
 * Active Research Studies currently recruiting subjects