Dr. Luis Nacul
Dr. Luis Nacul (MD, PhD) is the Principal Investigator of the Complex Chronic Diseases Research Program at BC Women’s Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. He has been researching ME/CFS internationally, and practicing as a general physician and in the field of ME/CFS and other complex chronic diseases. He also has been the co-founder and Director of CureME Research Programme at the Clinical Research Department, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK. Dr Nacul has worked in in Brazil, UK and Canada, where he had served as medical director for CCDP for nearly 4 years.
In addition to clinical and research work, with emphasis on chronic and disabling diseases, he has contributed to teaching and supervision of doctors and researchers. He is a Board Member of the International Association of ME/CFS, and has contributed to various committees in the field of ME/CFS, such as EUROMENE, NICE Guidelines development committee on ME/CFS, ICanCME (as network executive) and UK ME/CFS Biobank Steering Committee.