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David Bell
David Sheffield Bell, MD, is a pediatrician who practices general medicine in a private practice in the town of Lyndonville, New York since 1979.[1] He graduated in 1971 from Boston University with an MD degree and completed post-doctoral training in pediatrics including pediatric behavior and developmental disorders.[2] Bell was also employed by the pediatrics department of Cambridge Hospital and Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts[3] and served as clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York in Buffalo, New York.[4] Bell specializes in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also investigated as chronic fatigue-immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS) or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)), fybromyalgia and orthostatic intolerance.
Work on myalgic encephalomyelitis
The pediatrician's interest in myalgic encephalomyelitis began in 1985 when an apparent cluster outbreak of 216 persons occurred in his rural community in upstate New York. He has written and published extensively on the condition, including an early review on children with ME and a thirteen-year follow-up study on the children who became ill during the outbreak.[3][5][6]
Dr. Bell was interviewed about the outbreak in Lyndonville, New York in a 1996 Prime Time Live episode. The reporter described Bell's appeal to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for help with the illness, but Bell says the CDC didn't inform him about a similar outbreak at Lake Tahoe. He met with other researchers at a 1987 conference, and joined forces with researchers Paul Cheney and Elaine DeFreitas in an investigation of a possible retrovirus association with the disease.[7] In 1990, the researchers presented evidence that they found DNA sequences very similar to a known human retrovirus in some patients, at a conference in Kyoto, Japan.[8][9] Their study was later published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[10] The announcement made headlines all over the world. The CDC first ignored their findings,[7] then later conducted a study and published a paper that refuted the hypothesis.[11]
Bell wrote The Doctor's Guide to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which was published in 1995. The book describes Bell's CFIDS disability scale,[12] which is comparable to the Karnofsky scale. Government publications and primary research have used or proposed Bell's scale for the documentation of severity of symptoms in ME/CFS.[13][14][15]
In the 2000 documentary I Remember Me, Bell appeared in an interview recounting his experiences during the Lyndonville outbreak.[16]
In 2003 Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson designated Bell chairperson of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Committee (CFSAC), a panel of 11 experts that provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services "on the development and implementation of programs to inform the public; health care professionals; and the biomedical, academic, and research communities about advances related to CFS."[17][18][19]
Bell also served as a board member of the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME (IACFS/ME),[20] a professional organization of about 300 members that advocates for the concerns of CFS researchers and clinicians around the world.[21]
Publications
Books
- CFIDS: A Disease of a Thousand Names. D.Pollard, (1988)
- The Doctor's Guide To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Understanding, Treating, And Living With Cfids, Da Capo Press (January 17, 1995) ISBN 978-0201407976
- Curing Fatigue, Berkley (September 1, 1996), ISBN 978-0425149836
- A Parent's Guide to Cfids: How to Be an Advocate for Your Child With Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction, Informa HealthCare; (March 8, 1999), ISBN 978-0789006318
- Faces of CFS, MZR Publishing (August 30, 2000), ISBN 0970770200
- Cellular Hypoxia and Neuro-Immune Fatigue, WingSpan Press (July 10, 2007), ISBN 978-1595941794
Articles
- Leonard A. Jason, Nicole Porter, Elizabeth Shelleby, David S. Bell, Charles W. Lapp, Kathy Rowe and Kenny De Meirleir (November 2008). "A Case Definition for Children with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome". Clinical Medicine: Pediatrics 2008 (1): 53–57. http://www.la-press.com/a-case-definition-for-children-with-myalgic-encephalomyelitischronic-f-a1147.
- Be sure to distinguish CFS from depression, Clinical Psychiatry News, April 1, 2005, Volume: 33 Issue: 4 Page: 14(1)
- Stewart CC, Cookfair DL, Hovey KM, Wende KE, Bell DS, Warner CL (May 2003). "Predictive immunophenotypes: disease-related profile in chronic fatigue syndrome". Cytometry B Clin Cytom 53 (1): 26–33. doi:10.1002/cyto.b.10034. PMID 12717688.
- Gerrity TR, Bates J, Bell DS, et al (2002). "Chronic fatigue syndrome: what role does the autonomic nervous system play in the pathophysiology of this complex illness?". Neuroimmunomodulation 10 (3): 134–41. PMID 12481153. http://content.karger.com/produktedb/produkte.asp?typ=fulltext&file=nim10134.
- Ash-Bernal R, Wall C, Komaroff AL, et al (January 1995). "Vestibular function test anomalies in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome". Acta Otolaryngol. 115 (1): 9–17. PMID 7762393.
- Bell DS, Bell KM, Cheney PR (January 1994). "Primary juvenile fibromyalgia syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome in adolescents". Clin. Infect. Dis. 18 Suppl 1: S21–3. PMID 8148447.
- Bell KM, Cookfair D, Bell DS, Reese P, Cooper L (1991). "Risk factors associated with chronic fatigue syndrome in a cluster of pediatric cases". Rev. Infect. Dis. 13 Suppl 1: S32–8. PMID 2020801.
- Bell DS, Jordan K, Robinson M (May 2001). "Thirteen-year follow-up of children and adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome". Pediatrics 107 (5): 994–8. PMID 11331676. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=11331676.
- DeFreitas E, Hilliard B, Cheney PR, et al (April 1991). "Retroviral sequences related to human T-lymphotropic virus type II in patients with chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 88 (7): 2922–6. PMID 1672770. PMC 51352. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=1672770.
- Streeten DH, Thomas D, Bell DS (July 2000). "The roles of orthostatic hypotension, orthostatic tachycardia, and subnormal erythrocyte volume in the pathogenesis of the chronic fatigue syndrome". Am. J. Med. Sci. 320 (1): 1–8. PMID 10910366. http://meta.wkhealth.com/pt/pt-core/template-journal/lwwgateway/media/landingpage.htm?issn=0002-9629&volume=320&issue=1&spage=1.
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