EDUCATION AND TRAINING

M.D., University of California, San Diego, 1981

Internship in Internal Medicine, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1981-82

Residency in Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1982-84

Fellowship in General Internal Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1984-87

OFFICE ADDRESS

Harborview Medical Center
325 Ninth Ave
Campus Box 359780
Seattle, WA 98104-2499

Academic Office: (206) 543-2260
Fax: (206) 543-3830

HONORS

Member, Department of Veterans Affairs Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnes, 2007 - present

Member, NIH/NIDDK Multidisciplinary Chronic Pelvic Pain Definition Working Group, 2007 - present

Member, Institute of Medicine, Committee on the Health of Gulf War Veterans, 2005 - 2006

Member, Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Merit Review Board, 2006 - present

Rudy Perpich Memorial Award, American Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (lifetime achievement award), 2004

Named as a Best Physician for Women’s Health by Seattle Magazine
based on survey of 5,000 health providers, 2003

Melvin Ramsay Society medalist and lecturer (international research award), 2003

Jurgens Visiting Professor, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands(international research award), 2002

Member, American Epidemiology Society, 2001

Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship Teaching Award, 1992

Young Investigator Award, National Alliance for Schizophrenia and Depression, 1989

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Twin studies
Fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic pain and fibromyalgia
American Indian and Alaska Native health

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Assefi NP, Sherman KJ, Jacobsen C, Goldberg J, Smith WR, Buchwald D. A randomized clinical trial of acupuncture compared with sham acupuncture in fibromyalgia. Ann Intern Med. 2005;143:10-19.

Alvord LA, Rhoades D, Henderson WG, Goldberg JH, Hur K, Khuri SF, Buchwald D. Surgical morbidity and mortality among American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans. J Am Coll Surg. 2005;200:837-844.

Aaron LA, Buchwald D. Review of the evidence for overlap among unexplained clinical conditions. Ann Intern Med. 2001;134:868-881 ? Roubideaux Y, Buchwald D, Beals J, et al. Measuring the quality of diabetes care for older American Indians and Alaska Natives. Am J Pub Health. 2004;94:60-65.

Aaron LA, Herrell R, Ashton S, Belcourt M, Schmaling K, Goldberg J, Buchwald D. Comorbid clinical conditions in chronic fatigue: a co-twin control study. J Gen Intern Med. 2001;16:24-31.

Poole J, Herrell R, Ashton S, Goldberg J, Buchwald D. Results of isoproterenol tilt table testing in monozygotic twins discordant for chronic fatigue syndrome. Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:3461-3468.

Buchwald D, Beals J, Manson SM. Use of traditional health practices among Native Americans in a primary care setting. Med Care. 2000;38:1191-1199.

Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination among Native American elders in a primary care practice. Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:1443-1448.

Buchwald D, Sheffield J, Furman R, Hartman S, Dudden M, Manson S.

Bombardier C, Buchwald D. Chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia: disability and health-care use. Med Care. 1996;34:924-930.

Buchwald D, Umali P, Umali J, Kith P, Pearlman T, Komaroff AL. Chronic fatigue and the chronic fatigue syndrome: prevalence in a Pacific Northwest health care system. Ann Intern Med. 1995;123:81-88.

Buchwald D, Garrity D. Comparison of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and multiple chemical sensitivities. Arch Intern Med. 1994;154:2049-2053.

Buchwald D, Cheney PR, Peterson DL, et al. A chronic illness characterized by fatigue, neurologic and immunologic disorders, and active human herpesvirus type 6 infection. Ann Intern Med. 1992;116:103-113.

Buchwald D, Sullivan JL, Komaroff AL. Frequency of "chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection" in a general medical practice. JAMA. 1987;257:2303-2307.

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