Age:  51

Residence:  Washington, D.C.


Degrees:  Economics, B.A. 1980  State University of New York at Stony Brook
          (was originally a history major, also made substantial studies in
          mathematics, political science, computer science and biology)
          Economics, M.A. 1982  State University of New York at Stony Brook
          with focus on econometrics and public sector economics

Career:   Tax examiner, 1973-4, U.S. Dept. of Treasury,
                                Internal Revenue Service

          Economist, 1983-94, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

          medical retirement in 1994 due to CFIDS/M.E.

Publications: numerous articles on inflation analysis which appeared in the
              Monthly Labor Review, 1984-1992

Offices, Boards, Awards:

   appointed to District of Columbia Ward 3 Comprehensive Plan Citizens
   Advisory Committee, 1986

   elected to 4 terms as an Advisory Neighborhood Comissioner in the District
   of Columbia Government, 1987-93; served as Treasurer of the Commission for
   one year, Secretary for two years (elected by my fellow Commissoners);

   certificate of appreciation awarded by the Mayor in recognition of
   significant and valuable service to the District of Columbia, June 27, 1987

   Founder, Save Our Supermarket Committee of Cleveland Park, Sept. 1987
   (group formed to save the sole supermarket in our region, upon which
   many of our elderly were dependent; despite immense obstacles, the
   campaign was a major success)

   appointed to Mayor's Advisory Committee on Finances and Taxes, 1988-89

   Co-chair of TOPAC (citizens' group) Task Force on Rent Control Reform, 1988

   elected as an officer of the A.N.C. Assembly, 1989; served on the charter-
   drafting committee;

   Co-founder and Treasurer of the largest tenants association in Washington
   D.C., the Quebec House T.A., 1985-87; President 1987-90; I personally
   led many legal battles against our landlord's attempts at major rent
   increases;

   appointed to the Ward 3 ANC Redistricting Task Force of the District
   of Columbia Government, 1991

   recognized by a resolution of the City Council the District of Columbia
   for work on the previous year's Ward 3 ANC Redistricting Task Force,
   resolution dated April 7, 1992

   Founder of the revived Save Our Supermarket Committee of Cleveland Park,
   Sept. 1995

Volunteer work:

[Note: all of the activities listed above under Offices, Boards, Awards
involved no salary or stipend, so they might also be classified as
volunteer work.  Also, I am listing the following items for the benefit of
PWCs to get to know me better, I would expect not to include all of these
items in a resume submitted to DHHS for consideration as a nominee.]


   joined protest against the killings of Kent State students by the
   National Guard, May 1970

   Citizens Committee for Community Control, which promoted transfering some
   goverment decision-making to citizen-elected panels; Berkeley, Calif. 1971

   Assassination Research Committee, college student group which developed
   informational presentations on the controversies surrounding the deaths of
   Pres. Kennedy, Sen. Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King; the group also
   joined the campaign to press Congress to investigate these issues
   (Congress did respond by investigating) 1976-77

   Quebec House Tenants Association, 1985-1991 (described above)

   TOPAC citizens committee to preserve rent control for the elderly and
   low-income citizens of D.C., 1986-90; when crises befell various
   rental apartment buildings throughout the city, I helped to organize
   tenants associations in those buildings so that the residents could
   deal with their problems collectively and thus more effectively;

   While serving as an ANC Commissioner for over six years (listed above under
   Offices, Boards, Awards) I worked extensively and closely with many
   different citizens groups and with city and federal officials and agencies
   to help resolve a broad variety of neighborhood issues;

   helped to lead a demonstration protesting the slaughter of the Democracy
   Movement activists of Tiananmen Square (protest at the Embassy of
   China in Washington, DC, June 4-5, 1989)

CFS-related activities:

   Founder and publisher of CFS-NEWS Electronic Newsletter which focuses
   on medical news for the CFIDS/ME community, 1992-current

   Founder and Group Manager, CFS-L / alt.med.cfs discussion group on Internet
   since 1992

   Co-founder, CFS/ME Computer Networking Project, 1993

   Attendee, 1992 CFS medical conference Albany, 1994 CFS medical conferecne
   Ft. Lauderdale

   Forced the CDC to re-circulate the "Facts" booklet for further public
   comment, 1994

   Attendee, ICC meetings, 1994, 1995, 1996

   Invited speaker, NIH Workshop on Clinical Management of CFS, Spring 1995

   Regular contributor to CFIDS Chronicle on medical news, 1995-current

   Promoter of Change-the-Name campaign since 1994 

   Jan. 1998, invited by the U.S. Congress to testify about the
   CFS name-change issue