Journal of IiME Volume 1 Issue 1 Mrs. Annette Whittemore Reno resident Annette Whittemore is President and Co-founder of the foundation. She became active in starting the foundation because she is the parent of a young adult who was severely affected by CFS and HHV-6 for the last 15 years. She and her husband are business owners and philanthropists in Reno and Sparks. She started the foundation with Kristin Loomis from California after a brief meeting in Incline, NV. with Dr. Daniel Peterson, a leading clinical researcher in CFS and HHV-6. "We wanted the ability to stimulate communication and research into the cause and effects of this illness. We've both felt the frustration of seeing too many doctors who could not help," she said. "Unfortunately for the sufferers of this disease, there have been very few doctors who have been able to understand the severe disability that HHV-6 and CFS can cause. By bringing world class researchers together we hope to unravel the path of this disease and develop new therapeutics while searching for a cure." Annette's husband Harvey is a prominent attorney and developer who is currently developing Coyote Springs a 43,000-acre master planned golf community in southern Nevada. Harvey and Annette are both supporters of the University of Nevada's academics and athletics, with a particular interest in the future Knowledge Centre on the Reno campus. The couple is also actively involved philanthropically with several churches and community organizations. 32 Dr. Byron Hyde Dr. Byron Hyde attended the Haileybury School of Mines and worked as a geophysicist. He then did premedicine in the Faculty of Medicine and University College, University of Toronto, obtaining a degree in chemistry and nutrition. He graduated in medicine from the University of Ottawa where he was the Director and Chief of the International Exchange Program for the Canadian Association of Medical Students and Interns (CAMSI). Dr. Hyde founded the International Summer School in Tropical Medicine. He interned at Hotel Dieu in Montreal, was a resident at St. Justine Hospital in Montreal and at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. He also studied in Munich at the University Kinderklinik and in Paris at the Necker Hospital for Children. He was a research chemist at the Roscoe B. Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbour, Maine, a leading world laboratory in immunological research. Following this, he was Chief Technician in charge of the Electron Microscope Laboratory in Toronto at the Hospital for Sick Children, followed by a similar post at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Hyde has authored a book on Electron Microscopy and two non-medical books. Dr. Hyde has been a physician for 25 years and has performed charitable work as a physician in Laos and the Caribbean. He held the position of Chairman of the Ottawa Community Health Services Association, and is presently Chairman of The Nightingale Research Foundation. In 1984, Dr. Hyde began the full-time study of the disease process then known as Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (renamed in 1986 by Dr. Gary Holmes in the USA to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). He has worked exclusively with M.E./CFS patients since 1985. In 1988, Dr. Hyde organized an association and founded The Nightingale Research Foundation, dedicated to the study of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. He has also acted as Chairman of the 1990 Cambridge Easter Symposium and of the Workshop on Canadian Research Directions for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic fatigue Syndrome in May, 1991, at the University of British Columbia. (The above was extracted from the Nightingale Foundation website) Invest in ME Charity Nr 1114035 www.investinme.org
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