Dr. Clark is a retired Nurse Practitioner
and an exercise physiologist who has
specialized in the problems and benefits of
exercise in fibromyalgia patients.
She has
worked with fibromyalgia patients since 1979
and is a co-founder of the Fibromyalgia Information Foundation (formerly
the Oregon Fibromyalgia
Foundation).
She was an
Associate Professor of Nursing at Oregon
Health & Science University (OHSU) and has
been an investigator in multiple studies
funded by private corporations and non-proprietary agencies, including the National
Institute of Health; she has published some
61 scientific articles.
Clark
developed the Adult Nurse Practitioner
program at OHSU School of Nursing and taught
nurse practitioner students for thirteen
years. She was the rheumatology nurse
practitioner in the OHSU rheumatology clinic
for 12 years and was an active member of the OHSU fibromyalgia research
team beginning in
1980.
Dr. Clark
was awarded a National Arthritis Health
Professionals’ Traineeship in 1985. In 1991,
she co-authored the development and study of
the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ).
The FIQ is
now translated into 11 languages and is
considered the “gold standard” for measuring
change in fibromyalgia research. Dr. Clark
is married to Prof. Robert Bennett.
She
is currently Treasurer of the Fibromyalgia Information Foundation.
