BHC Blog
Pass or Fail? A Young Patient’s Perspective
Written by Brooklyn Ingram, a young person with ME/CFS, this blog post describes her refusal to be defined by a disease. Read more of her blog Future Dead Person here. We live in a culture that demands clearly defined roles for every individual. I...
NIH Awards Announced for ME/CFS Research Centers, BHC Key Member of Research Teams
The National Institute of Health has awarded funding for ME/CFS Collaborative Research Centers and Data Coordinating Center to collaborative research teams that include the Bateman Horne Center of Salt Lake City, Utah (BHC). This funding represents...
Nutrition: How Food Choices Impact How You Feel
The Whole Sisters (Nan Jensen and Nicole Bangerter) shared their journey with chronic illnesses at the September education meeting. View this presentation to learn about how food choices can affect symptoms. Visit their website for ideas on healthy food choices. Nan and Nicole discuss the importance of organic choices, the “dirty dozen” and the “clean fifteen”. They share tactics to develop self awareness and guidelines for reducing symptom presentation including recipe ideas.
A Retrospective & Recognition
Dr. Bateman shares a retrospective look at the progress made by Bateman Horne Center in the last two years.  She honors the contribution of Leigh Reynolds and looks ahead with excitement to the future for those impacted by ME/CFS. Six or seven...
A Priceless Contribution: A Tribute to Leigh Reynolds
Suzanne Vernon pays tribute to Leigh Reynolds of Altimeter Consulting who broke ground in the evolution of the Bateman Horne Center from a small medical clinic to a nonprofit center of excellence with a national footprint. For the past 5 years,...
What I Learned from the NASA 10-Minute Lean Test
Written by a patient who participated in a BHC research study to validate a new protocol used to assess orthostatic intolerance. Here she shares what she unexpectedly learned from her NASA 10-Minute Lean Test at BHC To be perfectly honest, when I...
Building the Ranks of Skillful and Informed Medical Providers
BHC Strategies for Bringing Doctors up to Speed on ME/CFS and FM Â presented by Lucinda Bateman, MD, BHC Founder and Medical Director Improving the way medical providers understand, diagnose, and treat ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia is critical to progress...
Welcome to the Microorganism Hotel
Gut Microbes and ME/CFS Theresa Dowell is a family nurse practitioner and physical therapist. She has suffered from CFS for 12 years. It was her experiences as a CFS patient that motivated her to start a medical clinic in Flagstaff, Arizona...
Life Happens: Sleep, Weight, and Activity in Fibromyalgia
On July 5, Akiko Okifuji, PhD, presented "Life Happens" at the monthly Bateman Horne Center education meeting. Dr. Okifuji is a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Utah. She has been actively conducting clinical...
Bateman Horne Center Named “Best in Healthcare”
Salt Lake City Award Program Honors BHC for Superior Patient Care Once again, the Bateman Horne Center has been selected for the 2017 Best of Salt Lake City Award in the "Best in Healthcare" category by the Salt Lake City Award Program. "I am...
Lucinda Bateman, MD, is a renowned clinician, researcher, and educator. Her Johns Hopkins University Medical School training instilled an approach to care that she has employed throughout her career - the patient comes first and the unknown or unexplained does not equate to a lack of proper and compassionate care. Since starting her own practice in 2000, she has served on six boards or committees, been the principal investigator for 45 studies, authored/coauthored 40 journal articles, served as adjunct instructor and adjunct assistant professor in the University of Utah Departments of Preventative Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Anesthesiology, and lectured around the world.