Jose Montoya

Jose G. Montoya, Professor of Medicine

Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at the Stanford University Medical Center[1]

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Montoya is one of only a handful of clinician-researchers who accept ME/CFS patients, and he currently has a waiting list of about 150.

Back in 2005, while attending a conference on toxoplasmosis in Paris, Montoya told his mentor that he wanted to research ME/CFS. His mentor scoffed at the idea, pointing to a homeless person lying in a Parisian gutter.

“That’s going to be you if you go into chronic fatigue research,” the mentor told him. [2]

Heads the Stanford ME/CFS Research Initiative

An initiative dedicated to studying infection-associated chronic diseases Mission Statement

To become a center of excellence that improves the health of patients with chronic diseases in which infection or its immune response plays a major etiologic role.

To provide leadership, facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration, make new discoveries, and educate in the field of infection-associated chronic diseases. Aim

Our primary aim is to study the roles that infection and the immune response play in the symptoms of patients suffering from chronic, unexplained diseases.[3]

Dr. Montoya and Professor Michael Zeineh and Colleagues Studied Brain Images

Study finds brain abnormalities in chronic fatigue patients

Radiology researchers have discovered that the brains of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have diminished white matter and white matter abnormalities in the right hemisphere.[4]

Article in NY Times WELL in Nov. 2014 by [David Tuller] of Brain Images (Top Scans Control Patients-Bottom Scans ME/CFS Patients)[5]

--DxCFS (talk) 21:56, 19 November 2015 (PST)

chronic disease a disease or condition that usually lasts for 3 months or longer and may get worse over time. Chronic diseases are long-term (typically incurable and requiring long-term management) but are not necessarily severe.