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Carol Head of SMCI to step down

After five years of advocacy leadership, Carol Head, the President of Solve ME/CFS (SMCI), will be stepping down from her position for health reasons. Head, a graduate of Wellesley and Stanford’s School of Business, contracted ME after a viral infection and was deeply affected for years.  However, she describes herself as “95% recovered” and added

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Passionate Pragmatist: Carol Head and the Fight for ME/CFS Equality: The SMCI Pt. I

One of my deeply held personal values is that ALL people must be treated  respectfully…I have found that respectful, highly knowledgeable, forceful advocacy language that expresses the desperate needs of our community is the most effective. But please do not mistake my professional, respectful demeanor as anything less than a cover for my righteous indignation and outrage at the inhumanity of our community’s treatment” Carol Head

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Carol Head Named 2017 Oprah Magazine Health Hero

Carol Head has just been honored by O, Oprah Winfrey’s magazine, as one of fourteen 2017 Health Heroes, “visionaries who are healing bodies, minds, and communities.” “Although we would have preferred a more substantive piece (and inclusion of “myalgic encephalomyelitis,” or ME, as our disease name),” Solve ME/CFS said in a statement yesterday, “we are

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Quick Update: #MillionsMissing Meeting with Dr. DeSalvo

Last week, MEAction announced that Jen Brea, Terri Wilder, Carol Head, Jennie Spotila, and Mary Dimmock would be meeting with Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Assistant Secretary of Health on August 1. The purpose of that meeting, which happened yesterday, was to impress upon Dr. DeSalvo how woefully inadequate HHS’s response to this disease has been and

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