Studying concentration of exhaled oxygen, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromylagia, multiple chemical sensitivity, multi-sensory sensitivity and other commonly co-morbid conditions before, during and after four months of daily oxygen therapy

Current Employment:

Consulting Environmental Health Engineer

Certified Carbon Monoxide Analyst

Exec. Director, MCS Referral & Resources

 

Education:

BA, mathematics, McGill University, 1980

MHS, environmental health engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1983

 

 

(partial list)

 

1. Ziem G, Donnay A. Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and chemical sensitivity: overlapping disorders. Archives of Internal Medicine 1995;155(17):1913

2. Donnay A. Intimidation of researchers by special-interest groups.  New England Journal of Medicine 1997;337(18):1314. 

3. Donnay A. On the recognition of multiple chemical sensitivity in medical literature and government policy.  International J. Toxicology 1999;18(6):383-92.  [first paper linking carbon monoxide poisoning with MCS and Edgar Allan Poe]

4. Donnay A, Ziem G. Prevalence and overlap of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia syndrome among 100 patients with multiple chemical sensitivity.  J. Chronic Fatigue Syn.1999;5(3/4):71-80.

5. Bartha L, Baumzweiger W, Buscher DS, Callender T, Dahl KA, Davidoff AL, Donnay A, Edelson SB, Elson BD, Elliott E, Flayhan DP, Heuser G, Keyl PM, Kilburn KH, Gibson P, Jason LA, Krop J, Mazlen RD, McGill RG, McTamney J, Meggs WJ, Morton W, Nass M, Oliver LC, Panjwani DD, Plumlee LA, Rapp DJ, Shayevitz MB, Sherman J, Singer RM, Solomon A, Vodjani A, Woods JM, Ziem G.  Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A 1999 Consensus.  Arch. Environ Health 1999;54:147-149 [consensus drafted by Donnay]

6. Donnay A. Carbon Monoxide as an Unrecognized Cause of Neurasthenia: A History.  Chapter 10, 231-260, In:  Penney, D. ed. Carbon Monoxide Toxicity.  2000.  Boca Raton FL: CRC. 

7. Donnay A. The tell-tale face of carbon monoxide poisoning in Poe and the Presidents: Recommendations for visual screening and breath testing.  Acta Haematologica 2000;103(S1):64.

8. Mitchell C, Donnay A, Hoover D, Margolick J.  Immunologic Parameters of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.  Occ. Medicine State of the Art Reviews 2000;15:647-665.

9. Hoover DR, Donnay A, Mitchell CS, Ziem G, Rose NR, Sabath DE, Yurkow EJ, Nakamura R, Vogt RF, Waxdal M, Margolick JB. Reproducibility of immunological tests used to assess multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome.  Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 2003;10(6):1029-1036.

10. Donnay A. Ozone and asthma. JAMA 2004;291(4):423.