Cynthia J. Mears, DO

Director, Uplift School-Based Health Center Clinical Professor of Pediatrics (Community Based Primary Care), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Language: English

About Me

Clinical Interests: Adolescents, menstrual disorders, confidentiality, access to health care, chronic fatigue syndrome, contraceptives, date rape/sexual abuse, depression, smoking cessation, eating disorders, HIV/sexually transmitted diseases, obesity, sports medicine, school health/school-based clinics, sexuality, adolescent pregnancy/parenting

Specialties, Programs & Conditions

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Education & Training

Education: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, 1984

Postgraduate Training: Medical Center of Delaware, Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine 1992, 1988; Oakland General Hospital, 1985; American Oncological Cancer Research Institute, 1982

Board Certifications: Adolescent Medicine, General Pediatrics

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Publications

Predictors of Post-Infectious Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Adolescents
Health Psychol Behav Med2 (1): 41-51
Orthostatic tolerance testing in a prospective cohort of adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome and recovered controls following infectious mononucleosis
Clin Pediatr (Phila)51 (9): 835-9
The occupational and quality of life consequences of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in young people
Br J Occup Ther73 (11): 524-530
Autonomic symptoms at baseline and following infectious mononucleosis in a prospective cohort of adolescents
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med165 (8): 765-6
Postinfectious fatigue in adolescents and physical activity
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med164 (9): 803-9

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