ME/CFS and LC Advocacy

June 6, 2024 / Charles W. Lapp, MD / News

For those of you interested in ME/CFS and Long Covid advocacy, we have an active #ME Action group here in North Carolina. You can join the group regardless of your location.

They meet every 2nd Thursday of the month at 1 PM over Zoom. The next meeting is in 1 week on 6/13. You can find the zoom links to access all our meetings on the ME Action event calendar (link below). We don’t require registration. We usually put the announcements out on social media around 4-5 days before any event. Also, if you sign up for emails from ME Action and give your location in NC, you will receive the NC chapter email reminders for all our meetings.

Links:
• Next Thursday’s support group Zoom info: https://www.meaction.net/event/north-carolina-state-chapter-meeting-2/2024-06-13/
• ME Action’s Event Calendar: https://www.meaction.net/act-events/
• ME Action NC’s Facebook, Twitter/X, and Instagram pages and our private Facebook group
• To get ME Action emails: https://www.meaction.net/subscribe/ (Be sure to include your location to get the NC announcements.)

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Dr. Hillman was born and reared in Utica, New York. He attended college at Clarkson University where he earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering, and then spent two years toward a master’s degree in biochemistry/oncology at the University of Buffalo’s Roswell Park Division, where he did research in leukemia. Dr. Hillman attended St. George’s University School of Medicine, and completed his clinical years at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, graduating in 1996. During the Summer of 1994 he also did research at the University of Buffalo Dental School using PCR technology on RNA subtyping of gram negative oral bacteria. Following medical school, Hillman went on to a Family Practice Residency at North Shore / Long Island Jewish Hospital in Bay Shore, NY.

After his residency, Dr. Hillman worked for the US Army at the West Point Military Academy (Keller Army Hospital family practice unit), worked in the Emergency Room and hospital admitting areas, and ran a private practice as well. From 2005-2006 he also worked at the Winn Army Hospital at Fort Stewart, GA, before setting up a private Family Practice in Huntersville, NC in 2007. In addition to his private practice Dr. Hillman also has an interest in helping clients with disabilities. He has worked for ProMed Urgent Care in Occupational Medicine and performed over 13,000 examinations for Social Security Disability.

Dr. Hillman has a family member with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, so he has a long standing interest and empathy with the disorder! He is married and has two sons and a daughter. The family lives in Huntersville.