Jeannette Burmeister

Jeannette Burmeister is patient advocate disabled with myalgic encephalomyelitis. She lives in Incline Village, NV, and participates in the open label clinical trial for Ampligen. Her husband, Ed Burmeister, also, is an advocate for adequate care and treatment for patients of ME.

She is an attorney, licensed to practice law in California and Germany. Before she was stricken with ME, she practiced law at Baker & McKenzie LLP, the world’s largest law firm.

Jeannette blogs about issues in the ME community at Thoughts About M.E.. Topics tend to be about the politics of ME in the US and UK government agencies.

She "successfully sued HHS and NIH in federal court for violating FOIA and the Judge found the agencies’ conduct to be unreasonable to a degree that led him to order both agencies to pay all of my attorneys’ fees, more than $139,000. The award of attorneys’ fees is by no means a given in FOIA cases; it requires a high level of unreasonableness on the government’s part."

Talks and Interviews

 * June 16, 2014 Comments at CFSAC meeting
 * January 27, 2014 at IOM Meeting
 * December 2013 Comments on IOM contract

Online Presence
Thoughts About M.E. Blog

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