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Kenny de Meirleir

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Kenny de Meirleir is a Belgian medical doctor best known for his work on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), including the book Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Biological Approach (2002) which he co-edited with Patrick Englebienne. He currently serves as medical director at the controversial Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, Nevada.[1]

Education and career

De Meirleir gained his medical degree from the VUB in Brussels in 1977, and completed an internal medicine residency in the Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Vrije Universiteit, Brussels.[1][third-party source needed]

He is among the authors of over 92 published scientific articles,[2] most of them related to CFS.

Publications

Books:

  • Kenny De Meirleir, Patrick Englebienne, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Biological Approach (2002), ISBN 978-0-849-31046-1
  • Kenny De Meirleir, Neil Mcgregor, Pediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2007), ISBN 978-0-789-03531-8
  • Michel Osteaux, Kenny de Meirleir, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy in Sports Medicine (1991), ISBN 978-3-540-52548-6

Articles:

  • Meeusen, Romain, and Kenny De Meirleir. "Exercise and brain neurotransmission." Sports Medicine 20, no. 3 (1995): 160-188.

References