Vicky Holets Whittemore, PhD AWS

12 mars 2018 - Genetic Alliance, a consultant for Citizens United for Research in. Epilepsy (CURE) and on the Board of the National Coalition for. Health Care Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) before joining the NINDS in 2011. Dr. Whittemore also serves on the Trans-NIH ME/CFS Working Group and is the ...
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Vicky Holets Whittemore, PhD

Dr. Vicky Holets Whittemore is a Program Director in the Channels, Synapses and Circuits Cluster at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Whittemore received a bachelor degree in Zoology from Iowa State University and a PhD in Anatomy from the University of Minnesota Medical School. After post-doctoral training at the University of California, Irvine, and the Karolinska Institute, she was on the faculty of the University of Miami School of Medicine in The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. She then moved to work in non-profit organizations serving as the Chief Scientific Officer for the Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance, the Associate Director of the Genetic Alliance, a consultant for Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) and on the Board of the National Coalition for Health Care Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) before joining the NINDS in 2011. Dr. Whittemore also serves on the Trans-NIH ME/CFS Working Group and is the NIH ex officio member on the HHS Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory Council, as well as serving as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for CURE and the Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation.

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D Vicky Holets Whittemore est directrice du programme Channels, Synapses and Circuits Cluster de l’Institut national des troubles neurologiques et des accidents vasculaires cérébraux (NINDS) des National Institutes of Health (NIH). Elle détient un baccalauréat en zoologie de l’Université de l’État d’Iowa et un doctorat en anatomie de l’école de médecine de l’Université du Minnesota. Après sa formation postdoctorale à l’Université de la Californie, à Irvine, et à l’Institut Karolinska, elle a participé au Miami Project, un projet de la Faculté de l’école de médecine de l’Université de Miami visant à guérir la paralysie. Elle a par la suite travaillé dans des organismes sans but lucratif, notamment comme directrice scientifique de la Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance, directrice adjointe de la Genetic Alliance, consultante pour l’organisme Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) et membre de la National Coalition for Health Care Professional Education in Genetics (NCHPEG) re avant de se joindre au NINDS en 2011. D Whittemore est aussi membre du groupe de travail Trans-NIH ME/CFS NIH, membre d’office du conseil consultatif sur le syndrome de fatigue chronique du HHS et membre du comité consultatif scientifique du CURE et de la commission consultative spécialisée de l’Epilepsy Foundation.

Montréal, du 3 au 5 mai 2018 Conférence collaborative canadienne sur l’EM/SFC Faire progresser un programme de recherche international en identifiant les priorités de recherche sur l’EM/SFC