Transcript: NIH ME/CFS Advocacy Call – March 28, 2022

Transcript:

Ms. Barbara McMakin: Good afternoon everyone and thank you for standing by. My name is Barbara McMakin and I’m from the NINDS Office of Neurosciece Communications and Engagement. On behalf of the NIH, I would like to welcome you to this afternoon’s call and to thank you for your interest in participating in this discussion with us today.

Today’s call is being recorded. If you have any objections please disconnect at this time. Dr. Vicky Whittemore, Program Director at NINDS, will introduce the speakers, each of whom will make some remarks, after which we will answer your questions. If you have a question for our speakers, we invite you to submit it through the Q and A box at the bottom of the Zoom screen. We will try to make our remarks brief so that we can answer as many questions as possible in the time available to us this afternoon.

I also wanted to mention that we are exploring different formats for these telebriefings going forward. For our next telebriefing we plan to include live oral questions during the question and answer session. That telebriefing has not yet been scheduled, but once we have those details we will send out a message to the listserv and post the call information on the ME/CFS website. Now, I would like to hand the call over to Dr. Whittemore.

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