Rachel Jantke

Rachel L. Jantke, PhD, is the Director for the Chicago Department of Public Health’s Office of HIV/AIDS Surveillance. From Oct 2013 to Feb 2016, she was the Project Director at DePaul University’s Center for Community Research, managing a 5-year NIH-funded epidemiological research study titled “Pediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in a community based sample" which will estimate the prevalence of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in a pediatric sample.

Education

 * 2015, PhD in Community Psychology, National Louis University, Chicago, Illinois

Notable studies in ME/CFS

 * 2014, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Case Definitions and Diagnostic Assessment (Full Text)
 * 2015, Functional level of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome reporting use of alternative vs. traditional treatments.
 * 2015, Factor Analysis of the DePaul Symptom Questionnaire: Identifying Core Domains (Full Text)
 * 2015, Issues in Estimating Rates of Pediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in a Community-based Sample
 * 2016, Housebound versus nonhousebound patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome (Full Text)

Online presence

 * LinkedIn