Future CFS Research

I wish to write two books based on my PhD research and the articles in preparation: a reference text for practitioners and a lay book.

A primary goal is to supervise a team of researchers who would repeat the phenomenological investigation of CFS, which I established in my PhD, and extend this research to include men and a focus on vulnerable ethnic groups.

Given the opportunity, I would like to update my review of the literature on CFS and publish a review article. This could be done in collaboration with a research student.

To investigate the social, environmental and biomedical epidemiology of CFS in men and women is an area of deep interest I would like to pursue. This will require collaboration with at least one epidemiologist.

I would also like to conduct a population-based study of the diagnosis patterns of CFS amongst men and women.

After I have published my PhD findings with respect to the adequacy of the present diagnostic criteria for CFS, I would like to see alternative diagnostic criteria developed, applied and the effectiveness of these new criteria assessed and validated.