Lucinda Bateman, MD

Dr. Lucinda Bateman completed her BS and MS at Brigham Young University (BYU), attended the John Hopkins School of Medicine, returned to the University of Utah for Internal Medicine residency, and became certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1991. She started a small private group practice in 1991 and practiced General Internal Medicine until 2000.

During this time, she proctored many students as Adjunct Volunteer Clinical Faculty for the University of Utah, including nurse practitioners, physician assistants (PA), medical students and residents, and was on the staff of LDS Hospital. She was awarded Teacher of the Year four times while teaching in the Utah PA program. In 2000, she was one of three Utah internists chosen by her peers in Top Doctors, a national publication.

Dr. Bateman currently serves on the boards of the International Association of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (IACFS) and The CFIDS Association of America. She is the co-founder and current Executive Director of OFFER. Throughout her career, her interest has gradually become more focused on the diagnosis and management of unexplained chronic fatigue, CFS and FM, inspired in part by the silent suffering of her sister, Shauna Bateman Horne, who had CFS for 15 years before she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2000 and died from complications of a stem cell transplant in May of 2001.

In 2000, Dr. Bateman opened her fatigue consultation clinic and has since evaluated 1000 patients with chronic fatigue. She has given more than 50 lectures on issues relating to chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. Dr. Bateman's goal in establishing her fatigue consultation clinic and the non-profit organization OFFER is to encourage a more thoughtful evaluation process, sharing of information with patients and medical providers, and cooperative research efforts aimed at understanding the cause(s) of CFS and FMS.