Online Bonus to the IACFS conference overview entitled “A Sea of Research,” published in the winter edition of the CFIDS Association’s print magazine the CFIDS Chronicle.

Every two years the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (IACFS)—an organization of research scientists, health care professionals and individuals interested in CFS—holds a conference to exchange information and ideas about CFS science, treatment and patient care. This year “more” was definitively in store at the biennial event, consisting of a two-day patient conference and a three-day professional conference featuring more presentations, greater convergence of scientific findings, broader international participation and more people in attendance, especially from the medical and research community.

Here are links to additional conference summaries from medical professionals and some CFS-knowledgeable writers who attended the event, which ran January 12-14 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida:

A Retrospective on the 8th IACFS Conference
by Virginia Teague, media liason for the 8th IACFS Conference
Click here to view

IACFS Conference “Wrap Up Session” video with slides
by Anthony Komaroff, MD, Professor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School
Click here to view  

Laymen’s Guide to IACFS Conference (broken into 5 parts)
by Cort Johnson, founder and editor of Phoenix Rising, a CFS newsletter
Click here to view (Part 1 includes links to the other installments)

8th International IACFS Conference on CFS, FM, and Related Illnesses
by Charles Lapp, MD, Hunter-Hopkins Center
Click here to view