Professor Nancy Klimas, MD.

Dr. Klimas has forty years of professional experience and has achieved international recognition for her research and clinical efforts in Complex Chronic Disease, notably Myalgic Encephalomyelitis or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness, Fibromyalgia, and most recently Long COVID.   Dr. Klimas is Professor Emerita at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine where she practiced for thirty years.

She is the Director of the Institute for Neuro-immune Medicine, Assistant Dean of Research, and Professor of Clinical Immunology at the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine in Florida in the U.S.A. She chairs the Department of Clinical Immunology at Nova Southeastern [00:01:00] University. Professor Klimas is a past president of the International Association for ME/CFS and a past member of the Health and Human Services CFS Advisory Committee, the VA Gulf War Illness Research Advisory Committee, the National Academy of Medicine’s ME/CFS Clinical Case Definition Working Group and has served on several NIH advisory panels.

Professor Klimas founded the NSU Institute for Neuro-immune Medicine where she directs a group of eighteen inter-disciplinary scientists and clinicians who are working to discover and implement innovative strategies that effectively treat or prevent Complex Chronic Disease.