Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield
Dr Peatfield qualified at Guy's Hospital in 1960 and worked for two years in the Croydon Hospitals before entering general practice. Increasing disenchantment with the NHS decided him to enter private practice where he at once felt drawn to the diagnosis and treatment of thyroid problems. Much impressed by the work of Dr Broda Barnes in the USA, he visited the Barnes Foundation and returned to the UK determined to improve the lot of patients with thyroid illness.
His emphasis on the use of clinical diagnosis, both of thyroid and adrenal
problems, and a holistic approach using non-synthetic treatment, enjoyed
a great deal of success but brought him into conflict with establishment
medicine. He finally decided to retire from active medical practice to
study nutrition, write and lecture. He wrote The Great Thyroid Scandal
and How to Survive it (now revised as Your Thyroid and How to
Keep it Healthy) for the general reader: to give people a deeper
understanding of both thyroid and adrenal illness and enable them to play
a knowledgeable part in the management of their treatment.
Dr Durrant-Peatfield now lectures and holds nutritional clinics specialising
in metabolic health throughout the UK. He is patron and a medical adviser
of Thyroid Patient Advocacy-UK.
Dr Peatfield's clinic schedule
and new clinic
relocation information.
Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum
Dr. Teitelbaum is a board certified internist and director of the Annapolis
Center for Effective CFS/Fibromyalgia Therapies. Having suffered with
and overcome these illnesses in 1975, he spent the next twenty-five years
creating, researching, and teaching about effective therapies. His office
is in Annapolis, Maryland (410-573-5389). He is the senior author of the
landmark study "Effective Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
-- a Placebo-controlled Study". He lectures internationally. He is also
the author of the best-selling book From Fatigued to Fantastic!
, Three Steps to Happiness! Healing through Joy, and the recently
released Pain Free 1-2-3- A Proven Program to Get YOU Pain Free!
His web site can be found at: www.Vitality101.com.
Listen to the interview
"Take Back Your Health" with Dr Teitelbaum on US radio station WBAI.
Dr. Gordon Skinner
Dr. Gordon Skinner, a distinctly Scottish man and dedicated doctor loved
by his patients, has chosen a road seldom travelled by medical doctors.
He advocates common sense hand-in-hand with mainstream medical science.
Some ten years ago he was asked by colleagues to see patients who were
deemed to have myalgic encephalopathy or chronic fatigue syndrome or post
viral syndrome or post viral fatigue on account of his interest in virus
disease. He noted that a number of these patients had clinical features
of hypothyroidism but had 'normal' levels of thyroid hormones which would
lead most workers in the field to reject a diagnosis of hypothyroidism.
Dr Skinner has since treated and returned to health many patients who were clinically hypothyroid but had normal thyroid chemistry and has reported these results in a preliminary paper entitled "Clinical response to thyroxine sodium in clinically hypothyroid but biochemically euthyroid patients".
A second issue concerns use of a porcine thyroid extract (Armour Thyroid) which was used extensively in the United Kingdom until introduction of synthetic hormones but was removed from the British National Formulary for reasons which remain unclear.
He is disappointed that many doctors have little enthusiasm or will to
examine this critical shortfall in patient care which in part motivated
his book Diagnosis and Management of Hypothyroidism.
Visit Dr Skinner's
Web site.
Dr. Theodore Friedman
Theodore C. Friedman, MD, PhD specialises in treating patients with adrenal,
pituitary, thyroid, and fatigue disorders. Dr. Friedman has privileges
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Martin Luther King Medical Center.
His practice includes detecting and treating hormone imbalances, including
hormone replacement therapy. Dr. Friedman is also an expert in diagnosing
and treating pituitary disorders, including Cushings disease and syndrome.
With both medical and research doctoral degrees, he has conducted studies
and cared for patients at some of the United State's most prestigious
institutions, including the University of Michigan, the NationaI Institutes
of Health, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and UCLA's Charles Drew University
of Medicine and Science.
Dr Friedman's career is summarised as follows:
UCLA School of Medicine 2005 - Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism
and Molecular Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
UCLA School of Medicine 2000 - Associate Professor of Medicine-In-Residence Level 1 Endocrinology Division,
Charles R. Drew University, Los Angeles, CA
Martin Luther King Medical Center 2000
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science 2000 - Director, Body Composition Core of the Drew Center of Excellence for Metabolic
Research
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 1998-2000 - Director, Multi-Disciplinary Chronic Fatigue Clinic
DEGREES:
BS, Chemistry and Biological Sciences - Stanford University, Stanford,
CA, 1980
MPhil, Pharmacology - City University of New York, NY, NY, 1984
PhD, Pharmacology - City University of New York, NY, NY, 1986
MD, MD-PhD program - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, 1987
RESIDENCY:
University of Michigan Hospitals, 1987-1989 Internal Medicine Ann Arbor,
Michigan
FELLOWSHIP:
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, Bethesda, MD, 1989-1992, Endocrinology
SENIOR STAFF FELLOW:
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development, Bethesda, MD, 1992-1995, Endocrinology
HONORS, AWARDS & RECOGNITION:
Graduated with Distinction from Stanford University, 1980
Doctoral Dissertation Award, Best Thesis, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
1986
NIH Student Exchange Program-Elective in Endocrinology, 1986
Hadassah Hospital Student Exchange Program, Jerusalem, Israel, 1987
"Endocrinology Under 35" Meeting, Best Poster Award, Rapallo
Italy, 1992
Outstanding Achievements in Promoting Black Employees Award, 1993
Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Research Fellow, 1996-1998
LICENSURE & BOARD CERTIFICATION:
California State License #G81765 1995-
DEA #BF4533495
Certified, Internal Medicine, 1990
Certified, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,1993
RESEARCH GRANTS:
Dr Friedman has received several research grants covering hormone regulation,
including thyroid, POMC, testosterone, and pancreatic functions.
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS:
Dr Friedman has delivered over 50 invited lectures and presentations throughout
the US and abroad on a variety of research and diagnostic topics.
PUBLICATIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHY:
In addition to having published over 50 peer-reviewed research papers
and over 50 abstracts, Dr Friedman has authored book chapters and review
articles.
Visit Dr
Freidman's Web site.
