Staff

Biography

Name: Benjamin H. Natelson

Title: Director of the NJ CFS/FM Center and Principal Investigator for the national CFS /FM Center grant from the National Institute of Immunology and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) that funds the Center's Research Branch.

Background: Benjamin H. Natelson received his bachelor's and medical degrees at the
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He then did his neurology
residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.
Following that, he did two postdoctoral fellowships: one in behavioral
neurosciences at the Cornell University Medical Center in White Plains NY
and one in physiological psychology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research. He then moved to the New Jersey Medical School in Newark and the
Veterans Administration Medical Center in East Orange. He rose through
the ranks attaining the rank of Professor of Neurosciences in 1981. He had
continual funding from the VA through 1999 for his animal experimental work
on stress and chronobiology. With the award of a federally funded research
center to explore the causes of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in 1991, he shifted
his research from animal work to studies of humans with CFS and now
concentrates in this area of clinical research. He has served as President of the Pavlovian Society and of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He has over 250 papers published in peer review journals and has authored 2 books. His most recent book, Facing and Fighting Fatigue, has been translated into 3 languages, and a new book, The Nothing Wrong Syndrome, will be published in 2007 by Wiley & Sons.

To make an appointment at Dr. Natelson's Private Practice, please call 973-972-2550 and choose option 4.

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