Dr Charles Shepherd: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Honorary Medical Adviser to the ME Association
- Quoted on
- Long Covid
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“Building on the findings from DecodeME, SequenceME should provide a better understanding of the underlying disease process, in particular how the immune and nervous systems respond to a triggering infection in ME/CFS.”
What Dr Charles Shepherd has said
“We now know that a significant proportion of people with Long Covid meet the diagnostic criteria for ME. It took an awfully long time for the medical community to pick this up, and recognise these are two overlapping conditions.”
honorary medical adviser at The ME Association · Long Covid · 30 Sept 2026 · 'ME and Long Covid have brought my children's lives to a standstill' ↗
“We now know that a significant proportion of people with Long Covid meet the diagnostic criteria for ME. It took an awfully long time for the medical community to pick this up, and recognise these are two overlapping conditions.”
honorary medical adviser at The ME Association · Long Covid · 8 Sept 2026 · ME and Long Covid have brought my children’s lives to a standstill ↗
Where Dr Charles Shepherd has been quoted
- Thousands of ME/CFS patients to benefit from genomics studygov.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- 'ME and Long Covid have brought my children's lives to a standstill'bbc.com · 30 Sept 2026
- ME and Long Covid have brought my children’s lives to a standstillbbc.co.uk · 8 Sept 2026
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