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About Us

Bruce Campbell, Ph.D.
Dr. Campbell is the creator and Executive Director of the CFIDS and Fibromyalgia Self-Help Program, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that offers low-cost online self-help courses and other resources for people affected by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and fibromyalgia (FM). The organization has offered more than 300 self-management classes since its founding in 1998 and maintains a website with hundreds of articles and other resources.

A recovered CFS patient, Dr. Campbell is a graduate of Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California. Before becoming ill with CFS, he worked in the Patient Education program at the Stanford Medical School. He is the author of the book Managing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia: A Seven-Part Plan.

Charles Lapp, M.D.
Dr. Lapp is the Director of the Hunter-Hopkins Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of the few medical practices in the United States to specialize in treating CFS, fibromyalgia and related disorders. Dr. Lapp has treated people with CFS and FM for over 25 years. 

He received his medical degree from Albany Medical College in New York. He completed residencies in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Since 1982, he has been a Clinical Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Duke University.

He has served on the CFS advisory committee reporting to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. He co-authored the CDC course on CFS for medical professionals and the Medscape program on diagnosing and treating CFS. Dr. Lapp is one of only two people to be given the Outstanding Clinician Award by the IACFS/ME (International Association for CFS/ME), an organization of leading researchers and doctors.