Discussion with ME/CFS Specialists Dr. Ron Tomkins, Dr. David Systrom, and Dr. Donna Felsenstein

Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM Association
and Open Medicine Foundation
Fall 2020 Event on Zoom
October 24, 2020

Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Phil Chernin

Panelists:
Ronald Tompkins, MD, ScD, Harvard Medical School
David Systrom, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Donna Felsenstein, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital

For more information about the Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM Association, visit: http://www.massmecfs.org/

For more information about the Open Medicine Foundation, visit:
https://www.omf.ngo/

0:00 Introduction
0:45 Are there ME/CFS Specialists?
6:15 Role of Primary Care Physicians
9:57 What Role Should MassME Play?
12:46 Post-Exertional Malaise and Mestinon
19:06 Prescribing Mestinon
20:17 ME/CFS Biomarker
23:34 Potential Therapeutics for ME/CFS
26:46 COVID-19 in ME/CFS Patients
28:50 Mitochondrial Dysfunction in ME/CFS
33:30 How Can MassME Help Doctors?
36:51 Closing