Recording of the Expert Speaker Series Webinar
Dr. Anthony Komaroff:
Similar Symptoms and Abnormalities
in ME/CFS and Long COVID
Presented live on April 3, 2024
This recording is approximately 1 hour and 10 mins in length.
0:00 - 3:05 - Speaker and Topic Introduction
3:06 - Start of Komaroff presentation and Introduction
12:20 - 15:52 - Central Nervous System and Autonomic Nervous System
15:53 - 19:41 - Immune System and Infections
19:42 - 23:54 - The Gut and Energy Metabolism
23:55 - 27:26 - The Heart, Lungs, Blood Vessels and Exercise
27:27 - 31:23 - Things said about ME/CFS, and Long COVID
31:24 - 36:26 - The Sickness Behavior Hypothesis
36:26 - 42:18 - Treatments and Conclusion
42:19 - 1:10:40 - Q&A
Closed captioning is available by
clicking on the CC button and selecting "English".
About the Presenters
Dr. Anthony Komaroff
Simcox-Clifford-Higby Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Komaroff is one of the most well known and respected people in the ME field. As a young researcher, he was the first person called into the Incline Nevada outbreak in the 1980s a call that ended up defining his career.
He was a co-author of the Holmes and Fukuda criteria for ME/CFS. And more recently he was a coauthor of the Diagnosis and management paper in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Dr. Komaroff led seminal research showing that ME/CFS is associated with more disability than other diseases like cancer and MS, work that lent credibility to the disease.
When COVID happened, he was one of the first to call the alarm bells that an ME like syndrome (now known as Long COVID) would likely occur. With co-author, Dr. Ian Lipkin, Dr. Komaroff has written important papers comparing ME with Long COVID.
Dr. Komaroff will talk about the similarity between ME and long COVID with focus on the research findings – all of which validate that ME and LC are legitimate biomedical diseases deserving attention and funding.
Dr. Eleanor Stein, MD
Dr. Stein is a physician and psychiatrist, an expert in helping people with ME/CFS, FM, environmental sensitivities, long COVID, and chronic pain recover their health and joy in life.
Through her own 35-year illness journey, reading thousands of scientific papers and working with thousands of patients, she has developed a unique, science-based approach to healing from chronic pain called Healing Through Neuroplasticity. This course teaches core strategies to rewire the brain for more comfort and better function.
