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A monthly speaker series
3rd Sunday of each month at 4 p.m. ET
Free and open to everyone
“Sunday Conversations with MassME” is a monthly speaker series with discussion on a wide variety of topics. These sessions are appropriate for patients, family members/caregivers, and health care professionals. Sunday Conversations take place via Zoom on the 3rd Sunday of each month at 4 p.m. ET, and are free and open to anyone. Presentations are recorded for later viewing. Registration is required.
Sunday Conversation for November:
"Your Doctors are Human Beings, Too!"
Sunday, November 17, 2024, 4 p.m. Eastern Time
You may find it easy or challenging to relate to each of your doctors and other providers in ways that help you get what you need from them. Both doctor and patient contribute to that relationship, usually in different ways, based on our personalities, roles and expectations. This presentation and discussion will offer you some tools that can help make that relationship both effective and fulfilling. The discussion will be led by Ruth Axelrod, who will draw on her career in healthcare and academia, as well as her personal health journey, to facilitate conversation. A recording will be available after the event.
Register for the November 17 Sunday Conversations
Links to recordings, slides, and other resources from past events:
- "Dr. Jill Crista Answers Your Questions About Mold", with Dr. Jill Crista, September 15, 2024
- "Body of Water" Presentation and Community Conversation with Sara Nesson, August 18, 2024. This event was not recorded.
- "Improving Pain Care Through Education and Policy", with Mass Pain Initiative, June 23, 2024
- "Are You M.A.D.? An axis awry of Mast cell activation disease, Autonomic neuropathy, and Disorders of connective tissue", with Anne Maitland, May 19, 2024
- "Got Mold? How Our Homes Impact Our Health", with Michael Rubino, April 21, 2024
- "Dysautonomias 101: More Than Just POTS", March 17, 2024
- "Living with co-morbidities or other serious illnesses: Small Group Discussions" February 18, 2024. This event was not recorded.
- "It's Not All In Your Head" with Judy Tsafrir, M.D., January 21, 2024
- "What Sociology and the Illness Narratives Can Teach Us About Living with Chronic Illness" November 19, 2023
- "Living with Chronic Illness: Small Group Discussions" August 20, 2023. This event was not recorded.
- "Zoom through 40 years of ME/CFS history with MassME" June 18, 2023
- "Using wearable technology to measure and manage Long COVID and ME/CFS". May 21, 2023
- "What Every Provider Should Know About ME/CFS (and how their patients can help them learn)" April 16, 2023
- "The Broken Mishkan: Performance and Community Conversation" with Sara Nesson" March 19, 2023. A recording will be made available to registrants for a limited time after the performance.
- "Pacing for PEM: An OT and PT perspective on what it is and how you can use pacing strategies in your daily life" February 19, 2023.
- "Selected readings from The Long Haul, with Ryan Prior and Cynthia Adinig" January 22, 2023.
- "Coping During the Holidays with ME/CFS, Long COVID, and Related Chronic Illness" November 20, 2022. This was a small group conversation event and was not recorded.
- There was no Sunday Converstion in October. At our Annual Meeting on October 22, Dr. Anthony Komaroff presented "MECFS and Long COVID: Emerging Similarities and Why it Matters". For full coverage of the meeting, visit our Youtube playlist.
- "How Those Living with Long Covid and ME/CFS can Enhance Their Quality of Life by Integrating Traditional Chinese Medicine Into Their Healthcare Plan" September 18, 2022
- Sunday Conversations: Special Edition - August 21, 2022 Small group conversations about a variety of topics. This program was not recorded.
- "A whole-person health approach to Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – Lessons for Post-COVID conditions." June 19, 2022
- "Fibromyalgia" May 15, 2022
- "Working with Your Healthcare Provider" April 24, 2022
- "A Functional Medicine Approach to Complex Chronic Illnesses" March 20, 2022
- "Applying for Social Security Disability if you have ME/CFS or Fibromyalgia" February 20 2022
- "Physical and Occupational Therapy for ME/CFS and Similar Chronic Illnesses" January 16, 2022
Click to see all events in a list format.
Notice about names
The Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM Association would like to clarify the use of the various acronyms for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Chronic Fatigue & Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) on this site. When we generate our own articles on the illness, we will refer to it as ME/CFS, the term now generally used in the United States. When we are reporting on someone else’s report, we will use the term they use. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other federal agencies, including the CDC, are currently using ME/CFS.
Massachusetts ME/CFS & FM Association changed its name in July, 2018, to reflect this consensus.