2015 Award Winner
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College / Institute
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Professor Bio
Nancy Klimas, M.D.
Award Year
2015
Recommended Citation
Nova Southeastern University, "2015 Award Winner" (2015). Provost’s Research and Scholarship Award Past Winners. 7.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/provost_research_award/7
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Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Executive Vice President and Provost Ralph V. Rogers Jr., Ph.D., recently presented Nancy Klimas, M.D., with the 5th Annual Provost's Research and Scholarship Award.
Klimas has achieved international recognition for her research and clinical efforts in multi-symptom disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), Gulf War illness {GWI), and fibromyalgia. Among many other honors, Klimas was the recipient of the 2014 Perpich Award by the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis {IACFS/ME) for distinguished community service. She also was featured as a "Woman to Watch" on WFOR CBS 4.
She currently serves as director of NSU's Institute for Neuro-lmmune Medicine, professor of medicine, and chair of the Department of Clinical Immunology at NSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is also professor emerita at the University of Miami School of Medicine, director of clinical immunology research at the Miami Veterans Affairs Medical Center {VAMC) and leads the GWI and ME/CFS clinical and research program at the Miami VA.
Klimas is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a diplomate in diagnostic laboratory immunology. She is a past president of the IACFS/ME and is also a member of the VA Research Advisory Committee for GWI, the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) P2P CFS committee, and served on the Institute of Medicine's ME/CFS review panel.
Klimas has advised three U.S. secretaries of health and human services during her repeated service on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services CFS Advisory Committee. She is currently funded by the VA, Department of Defense and NIH to study these complex disorders using a systems biology approach with a strong focus on illness models that lead to therapeutic targets and clinical trials.
Photo Caption: Jacqueline A. Travisano, M.B.A., CPA, NSU executive vice president and chief operating officer; Gary S. Margules, Sc.D., vice president for Research and Technology Transfer; Nancy Klimas, M.D., recipient of NSU's 5th Annual Provost's Research and Scholarship Award; Ralph V. Rogers Jr., Ph.D., NSU executive vice president and provost; and H. Thomas Temple, M.D., NSU senior vice president of translational research and economic development.