Speaker

Dr. Betsy-Keller

Biography :

Betsy A. Keller, PhD, FACSM, Professor (retired), Department of Exercise Science & Athletic Training; PaceForward Foundation, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA. For over two decades she has used a 2-day CPET protocol to study and objectively assess functional capacity in those with fatiguing illnesses. In 2015 she served on the Institute of Medicine committee to study ME/CFS and has given numerous scientific and invited presentations on fatiguing illnesses nationally and internationally. She was the Co-Coordinator of the Clinical Core for a multi-site 5-year NIH-funded Collaborative Research Center to study ME/CFS. Presently, she is a principal in the newly established non-profit PaceForward Foundation where the team continues to provide objective assessment of functional capacity and recovery for those with fatiguing illnesses.