The Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly webcast created to foster discussion on major public health issues. Each session focuses on key challenges related to a specific health topic, and explores cutting-edge scientific evidence and potential impact of different...
ME/CFS
Getting Race-Ready!
"I’ve been a tortoise alongside my patients for 20 years, modeling patience and persistence. Now, while those who are ill must of necessity maintain turtle pace, it is time for researchers and clinicians to pick up the pace as hares, only this time the hare and the...
Tortoise & Hare Reflections
An open letter from Lucinda Bateman MD As many do, I spent some time over the holiday break reflecting on the past year and making new goals for 2016. Although 2015 started out on an emotional high with the release of the IOM report and new clinical diagnostic...
What’s the Buzz – January
Each month we scour the Internet and bring you a list of news articles, blogs and research publications we think you’ll find interesting for our What's the Buzz post. Occasionally, we’ll highlight and summarize a few of them for you, like these: Ōuraring - Best...
Guest Blog – Bringing ME/CFS/SEID into Mainstream Medicine
Establishing a Distinct ICD-10 Code by Jon D. Kaiser, MD - CFS researcher, clinician, and patient Dr. Jon Kaiser is a recovered CFS/ME patient, clinician, and researcher who has been caring for people with CFS/ME, AIDS, and cancer for the past twenty-five years. In...
Eight Years Later, Living with ME/CFS
Presented by Thomas G. Harrison, LCSW, MFT Thomas Harrison has worked as a mental health professional with patients with chronic disease for 39 years and has lived with ME/CFS since 1989. On January 6th, 2016, he discussed the progress made in coping within healthy...
A Link Between the Gut Microbiome and Post-Exertional Malaise
For every 1 human cell in our body there are 10 microbes. We are now beginning to appreciate the roles of these diverse microbial communities in health and disease. The various parts of our bodies have distinct microbial populations called microbiome. In a study...
What’s the Buzz – December
Each month we scour the Internet and bring you a list of news articles, blogs and research publications we think you'll find interesting. Occasionally, we'll highlight and summarize a few of them for you, like these: Cytokines are small powerful signaling proteins....
Empowered Research… While You Sleep
Each of us is a 24/7 data-generating machine. Wearable accessories and devices count our steps, monitor our heart and breathing rate and track our water intake. Our smart phones keep us connected all while tracking our every movement. We use apps to count calories,...
Partnerships to Accelerate Biomarker and Mechanism Discovery in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeTrCE4Iwo0 The Bateman Horne Center has partnered with many scientists over the past 10 years in studies aimed at diagnosis and treatment of ME/CFS and FM. One of the most fruitful partnerships has been with Drs. Alan and...
My Beautiful Messy Life
At the Bateman Horne Center, empowering patients to find their strongest voice and live their best life is the first and most important component of our mission. We strive to strengthen community and share the beauty of the human spirit that lives within all impacted...
IOM Report, Making a Difference
On December 2, 2015, Medscape released “The Year in Medicine 2015: News That Made a Difference”. The number 4 top story, out of 31 that made the list, was the Institute of Medicine report on ME/CFS. As a disease that is widely misunderstood, with patients poorly...











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.