Today we have a particularly challenging topic for me, as the disease we're going to discuss hit my immediate family—twice. We're talking about a condition so complicated and confusing that it goes by different names: ME or Myalgic encephalomyelitis, and CFS or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. But, regardless of the name, it's a chronic, complex, systemic disease, that profoundly limits the health and productivity of the 2.5 million American patients it affects, as well as those who love them and who care for them. Here to give voice to the millions of people affected by ME/CFS are two wonderful Wellesley women: Carol Head and Julie Rehmeyer. Carol Head is the president of the Solve ME/CFS Initiative, and has over 25 years of experience as an executive in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Also joining us is author Julie Rehmeyer. Julie is an award-winning freelance math and science journalist, and is the author of Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer's Odyssey Into an Illness Science Doesn't Understand. Both of my guests directly experienced the affects of ME/CFS, and have gone on to share their stories and help others struggling to overcome the ME/CFS.