Galway 

Please note that this meeting is being organised by the Irish ME/CFS Association in conjunction with the Galway ME Support Group.

Dr William Weir, a leading UK ME Expert will give a talk on Sunday 30th May at 2.00pm in the Courtyard Hotel, Headford Point, Headford Road (just off the Kirwin Roundabout and near the Galway Shopping Centre). Admission: 5 Euro. All welcome

Dr. Weir is a consultant physician/consultant in infectious diseases. Having formerly run an NHS ME clinic, he now sees patiently privately in Harley Street, London and Northern Ireland

Dr William R C Weir

Dr Weir began his medical career in 1972 as a House Physician and House Surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary. His Post-Registration appointments included SHO Cardiology & Coronary Care, General Medicine & Endocrinology, Neurology & Chest Medicine. He continued as a Registrar in General Medicine and Nephrology before spending 18 months in Nigeria at a Teaching Hospital there, followed by a post as Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Other posts have included Consultant Physician, Royal Free Hospital & Honorary Senior Lecturer in Infectious Diseases, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Personal Physician to HH Sheik Zayed, Ruler of The United Arab Emirates. Additional Professional commitments have included Chairman of the Examining Committee of the Diploma of Tropical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians, Hon Clinical Secretary for the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

Dr Weir’s main clinical interests are: Treatment of Severe Malaria; Imported Infections; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Diagnosis of Occult forms of TB; Pyrexia of Unknown Origin & its Presentations. He also ran an outpatient service for patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome between 1987 and 2000. He is now in Private Practice at number 10 Harley Street, London.

Dr Weir has been an Assistant Editor for the Journal of Infection, undertook book reviews for the Lancet, has written many Journal articles covering topics such as Chronic Q Fever; Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever; Malaria; Epstein Barr Virus; was a member of the Westcare Taskforce on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and lectured at the British Society for the Study of Infection on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and of Edinburgh.

Dr Weir’s current major Research Interests are the Clinical Manifestations of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Immunological Mechanisms in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.