The biennial conferences sponsored by the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (IACFS/ME) provides an opportunity for medical professionals, researchers and patients to share current knowledge and developments.

On this page we bring you highlights of recent conferences. Summaries are provided to us by medical professionals who attended.

Fort Lauderdale 2016

Pre-conference Event at Nova Southeastern University

Summary by Cort Johnson: 

healthrising.org/blog/2016/11/02/complex-neuroinflammatory-conditions-preconference-mecfs-gwi/

12th International IACFS/ME Research and Clinical Conference: Emerging Science and Clinical Care

As is customary, Dr Anthony Komaroff gave a conference summary presentation. His slides are available in pdf Here The audio file to accompany the slides can be downloaded Here

Summary by Dr Rosamund Vallings

Summary by Cort Johnson

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San Francisco 2014

Prior to the IACFS/ME conference in San Francisco, a one day symposium was held at Stanford University in Palo Alto

2014 STANFORD MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME SYMPOSIUM - Advances in Clinical Care and Translational Research, March 19, 2014

Summary provided by Dr Rosamund Vallngs:   Stanford ME/CFS Symposium 2014 - Summary

IACFS/ME 11th International Research & Clinical Conference - Translating Science into Clinical Care, March 20th to 23rd, 2014 San Francisco, CA

You can watch the video of Dr Anthony Komaroff's summary of the biological findings, posted by SolveCFS at:   youtube.com/watch?v=nyyjRdbvPj0 

A written transcript of this presentation is here:

The Conference summary by Dr Rosamund Vallings:   Summary of the IACFS/ME 2014 Conference

Ottawa 2011

Translating Evidence into Practice - September 22nd to 25th, 2011

hosted by The National ME/FM ACTION NETWORK

Conference summary by Dr Rosamund Vallings:   Summary of the IACFS/ME 2011 Conference