Zaher Nahle leaves Solve Me/cfs

Yay! Thank you Andy for contacting him and letting us know. Wishing him the very best, and with such gratitude for all his contributions in transforming SMCI into the bold and dynamic organisation it is today.

 

Thats good to know, a lateral move

 

We're fortunate that we had him at Solve for as long as we did...

 

This sounds good news to me. Zaher did a very good job of listening to people in the field and raising the profile of Solve ME with scientists. For him to move to a role in the wider field of rheumatology, taking his experience with ME with him, must be a good thing. The bigger funding organisations need to have ME as a standard item on their shopping list. Someone new will move in to Solve ME and bring some new ideas.

 

Shopping list? Shopping for what?

 

Bitcoin

Just kidding, i don't really know but i would hope treatments or research

 

I have the disease and I can only take so much of this dead-end research crap. He's a guy who wants an interesting career that produces results with great money. Who can blame him? I think this was always a stepping-stone for him even if he still has a toe or two in ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia. Unless there was some sort of real breakthrough (there has with been through Drs. Montoya and Davis) AND money for research his staying on board wasn't likely.

 

His qualifications were obviously out of whack with his SCMI job.

It's hard to imagine many ppl with a CV like his being satisfied with a job like this (tiny organisation; unfashionable cause; no break-thru progress; comparatively modest pay) unless they really believed in the cause &/or the value of their role.

My personal experiences with him led me to strongly suspect, some time back, that he was going thru the motions. That's hardly a hanging offence - lots of ppl take jobs as stepping stones. Doesn't mean he didn't do some good work.

His attitude stood out to me bc it contrasted with so many in the ME field. When you meet figures like klimas, hansen, tuller, it's obvious they are committed; that they're not doing this as a filler to get their career back on track.

 

https://www.curearthritis.org/zaher-nahle/

 

I must say I am a little disappointed that he'd leave without warning... Who is replacing him?

 

In many respects, moving on to a larger organisation can be seen as a positive: that getting involved in ME/CFS research/advocacy is not the career death that it was once seen as.

 

True enough, but its never fun to lose good people. Of course everyone says lets keep in touch (or in this case i'm still working on your behalf) but once he is gone he will have a different mission to fulfill.

 

Good point @Alvin and i must add that rheumatology in Canada seemingly does not want to care for fibromyalgia and from personal experience, ME is also outside their scope of practice.

This said, i hope Zaher can be a catalyst to change and inclusion of these diseases for the greater good.

 

This seems like great news to me, as someone who actually knows what our disease is, will now be in a foundation where rheumatology research is done.

Meaning rheumatology researchers will become aware of our disease.

One step closer to getting specialists who actually know what we have.