EMEA Sweden member RME has arranged for Dr David Bell to give a series of lectures in Sweden in the autumn.

Dr. Bell will be speaking in at least four lectures in Gothenburg and in Stockholm. These will include lectures to patients and to healthcare professionals.

The dates of the visit are from 2nd October to 8th October 2011.

Dr Bell has recently attended the 6th Invest in ME International ME/CFS Conference in London and participated in the Invest in ME Corridor Conference meeting of researchers from seven different countries. He also participated in the All Party Parliamentary Group on ME meeting arranged by Invest in ME at the Houses of Parliament to discuss biomedical research.

More details will follow later.

Dr David Bell MD has vast experience of ME/CFS.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1967 with an AB degree in English literature followed by Boston University with an MD degree in 1971. Post doctoral training in paediatrics was completed in 1976 with subspecialty training in Paediatric Behaviour and Developmental Disorders. In 1978 he began work at the University of Rochester but soon began a private practice in the town of Lyndonville, New York.

In 1985 nearly 220 persons became ill with an illness subsequently called chronic fatigue syndrome in the communities surrounding Lyndonville, New York. This illness cluster began a study of the illness which continues today.

Dr. Bell is the author or co-author of numerous scientific papers on CFS, and, in 2003 was named Chairman of the Advisory Committee for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome of the Department of Health and Human Services. Publications include A Disease of A Thousand Names, (1988) and The Doctor’s Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, (1990).

Dr. Bell currently practices general medicine in Lyndonville, New York with his wife Nancy, a family nurse practitioner. Roughly half of the patients seen in the practice suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, orthostatic intolerance, and/or myalgic encephalomyelitis.