Q & A - Part 5/6 | MassME 2022 Annual Meeting: Emerging Similarities of ME and Long-COVID

This is a recording of the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM Association on Saturday, October 22, 2022 which includes a presentation by Dr. Anthony Komaroff. In this section, Dr. Komaroff answers questions from the attendees.

Anthony Komaroff, MD, is the distinguished Simcox-Clifford-Higby Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He has published over 230 research articles and two books. From 1997-2015 he was editor in chief of the Harvard Health Publications Division of Harvard Medical School, the division responsible for disseminating all of the medical school’s health information for the general public. He has been publishing research papers on myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) since the late 1980s, and currently serves on the National Institutes of Health’s advisory council for ME/CFS research.

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00:00 Introduction
00:50 The role of the vagus nerve and homeostasis
04:35 Rehabilitation of the autonomic nervous system
6:10 Why PEM exacerbates symptoms
10:36 What specialty should 'own' ME/CFS? Role of PCP?
15:02 Case definitions
19:43 Ampligen, Abilify, and Low Dose Naltrexone
24:54 RECOVER Initiative
28:19 Conclusion