Bio for Rich Van Konynenburg:

Rich Van Konynenburg’s formal education was in engineering and the applied physical sciences. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of California–Davis in 1974 as a Hertz Fellow. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for two years, achieving the rank of Captain, doing research and development on detection of land mines and hidden explosives. He worked for the University of California at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 30 years, doing research and development on nuclear materials and technology, associated primarily with nuclear fusion and nuclear waste management.

He has studied ME/CFS ( myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) for the past 15 years. In 2007, he proposed a hypothesis for the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of CFS/ME, called the “Glutathione Depletion—Methylation Cycle Block” hypothesis. The article in this issue reports on a clinical study with Neil Nathan, M.D., of a treatment based on this hypothesis.

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Richard A. Van Konynenburg

Education:

B.S. with honors, University of California, Davis, 1963, Engineering

M.S., University of California, Davis, 1965, Engineering—Applied Science

Ph.D. University of California, Davis, 1974, Engineering—Applied Science

Hertz Foundation Fellowship

Employment:

U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, Officer and Research and Development

Coordinator, 1968-1970, temporary duty in Vietnam, honorable discharge.

University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, student employee, 1970-1974; scientific staff member 1974-2002.

University of California, Davis, lecturer in solid state physics, Applied Science Department, 1988-1990

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Consultant to Scientific Advisory Board Subcommittee on Carbon-14 Release, 1992-93.

Independent researcher of chronic fatigue syndrome, 1996 to present

Independent consultant on chronic fatigue syndrome, 2006 to present

Publications and lectures on chronic fatigue syndrome:

Van Konynenburg, R.A., Nutritional approaches, Chapter 27 in Handbook of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, L.A. Jason et al., eds., John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ (2003).

Van Konynenburg, R.A., Is glutathione depletion an important part of the pathogenesis of chronic fatigue syndrome? poster paper, 7^th Scientific Conference of the American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Madison, Wisconsin (2004).

Van Konynenburg, R.A., Chronic fatigue syndrome and autism, Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients (October 2006).

Van Konynenburg, R.A., Glutathione depletion—methylation cycle block, a hypothesis for the pathogenesis of chronic fatigue syndrome, poster paper, 8^th International Conference of the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (IACFS), Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (2007).

Van Konynenburg, R.A., Why is the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome higher in women than in men? poster paper, 8^th International Conference of the IACFS, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (2007).

Van Konynenburg, R.A., Methylation and glutathione, keys to chronic fatigue syndrome, invited lecture, Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society meeting, San Francisco (February 29, 2008), CD 09-108, No. 4, available from Professional Audio Recording, La Verne, CA, phone 1-800-430-4727, email PAR4AUDIO@aol.com.

Van Konynenburg, R.A., The glutathione depletion—methylation cycle block hypothesis for CFS/ME and implications for treatment, the IACFS/ME Bulletin (Summer, 2008).

Nathan, N. and Van Konynenburg, R.A., Treatment study of methylation cycle

support in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, poster

paper, 9^th International Conference of the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (IACFS/ME), Reno, Nevada (2009).

Van Konynenburg, R.A., Is there a link between Lyme disease and chronic

fatigue syndrome?, poster paper, 9^th International Conference of the IACFS/ME,

Reno, Nevada (2009).

Van Konynenburg, R.A., and Nathan, N., Application of the Yasko protocol to the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome, invited lecture, Yasko Protocol Conference, Boston (July 30-August 1, 2010).

Van Konynenburg, R.A., A comprehensive biochemical model for

the pathogenesis and pathophysiology of ME/CFS and effective treatment based

on it, poster paper, 10^th International Biennial Conference of the IACFS/ME, Ottawa (September 22-25, 2011).

Van Konynenburg, R.A., Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, invited seminar, Annual Meeting of the Swedish Chapter of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, Skovde, Sweden, October 1-2, 2011.