Renee R. Taylor, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor of occupational therapy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in clinical-community psychology from DePaul University. In addition, she completed a fellowship in child and adolescent clinical psychology at Ravenswood Hospital. Taylor has published over 50 articles on fatiguing conditions and has co-edited or written three books: A Clinician’s Guide to Controversial Illnesses, Handbook of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and Participatory Community Research: Theories and Methods in Action. Taylor has received over $3,000,000 in federal research grants from the US Department of Education National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research and from the National Institutes of Health. Currently, she is beginning a NIH-funded, prospective study of chronic fatigue syndrome following mononucleosis in adolescents. The grant aims to identify variables that may be associated with the etiology of post-infectious fatigue syndrome.