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[[File:Dr. Irma Rey.png|thumb|Source: NOVA.edu]] Dr. '''Irma Rey''' is a Internal Medicine and Allergy/Immunology physician who is one of the founding members of the [[Institute for Neuro Immune Medicine]] (INIM) at Nova Southeastern University, in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is the Director of Medical Education at the INIM as well as an Assistant Professor at the College of Osteopathic Medicine, Nova Southeastern University.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.nova.edu/nim/2015-patient-conference/index.html | title = 2015 Patient Conference {{!}} Institute for Neuro Immune Medicine {{!}} NSU | last = NSU|website=NSU|language=en|access-date=2018-08-11}}</ref> Areas of specialty include [[ME/CFS]], [[fibromyalgia]], [[Gulf War Illness]], HIV/AIDS, autism spectrum disorder, [[Lyme disease]] and other [[Neuro-immune disease|neuro-immune diseases]].<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.nova.edu/nim/clinic/index.html | title = Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine Clinic {{!}} NSU | last = NSU|website=NSU|language=en|access-date=2018-08-11}}</ref> ==Studies== *In 2016, Dr. Rey and Dr. [[Nancy Klimas]] and several other researchers studied patients who developed [[gastroparesis]] following a viral history of [[Flu-like illness|flu-like symptoms]] or gastroenteritis. Nine at of the eleven patients with Idiopathic Gastroparesis studied (82 %) had active [[enterovirus]] infection on gastric biopsies. The study concluded that "antiviral and/or immune therapies against enterovirus seem to be favorable, as most of our patients had resolution of their gastroparesis symptoms after treatment. This is the first study to identify enterovirus as a possible infectious etiology of idiopathic gastroparesis.<ref name="BarkinJA, 2016" /> == ME/CFS Gene Study == [[Category:Clinicians]] [[Category:American clinicians]] [[Category:Florida clinicians]] In 2015 the [[ME/CFS Gene Study]] began, with Irma Ray as Principle Investigator and [[Nancy Klimas]] as Co-investigator. This is an international study involving creating a database of gene results for people with ME/CFS and Healthy Controls.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.nova.edu/nim/research/mecfs-genes.html | title = ME/CFS Genes Study {{!}} NSU Institute for Neuro Immune Medicine | last = NSU|website=NSU|language=en|access-date=2018-11-01}}</ref> == See also == * [[ME/CFS Gene Study]] * [[Nancy Klimas]] == Learn more == * ME/CFS Gene Study - Institute for Neuroimmune Medicine, Nova Southeastern University ==References== <references> <ref name="BarkinJA, 2016">{{Citation | last1 = Barkin | first1 = JA | authorlink1 = | last2 = Czul | first2 = F | authorlink2 = | last3 = Barkin | first3 = JS | authorlink3 = | last4 = Klimas | first4 = NG | authorlink4 = Nancy Klimas | last5 = Rey | first5 = IR | authorlink5 = Irma Rey | last6 = Moshiree | first6 = B | authorlink6 = | title = Gastric Enterovirus Infection: A Possible Causative Etiology of Gastroparesis | journal = Digestive Diseases and Sciences | volume = 61 | issue = 8 | page = 2344-50 | date = 2016 | pmid = 27344315 | doi = 10.1007/s10620-016-4227-x }}</ref> </references>
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