Patricia Fennell, MSW, LCSW-R, is the CEO of Albany Health Management Associates, Inc., an organization that provides counseling and case management in the areas of chronic syndromes, trauma, forensics and hospice care, as well as consulting and education for employers, professional training for clinicians, and collaborative research for the international scientific community. Ms. Fennell is an innovator in the chronic illness and mental health fields, and she created the internationally recognized Fennell Four-Phase Treatment (FFPT)™ approach for understanding and treating chronic medical and mental health conditions. The model has been translated into several languages and is used by clinicians, researchers, and patients worldwide.

Ms. Fennell is frequently sought as an expert on trauma, forensics, restorative justice, hospice, chronicity, and disability. She regularly lectures on restorative justice and related issues with David Kaczynski, brother of the Unabomber, and Gary Wright, a surviving victim of the Unabomber. Prior work includes developing and supervising the patient suspicious death reporting system and providing data and assistance to the medical examiner for the New York State Governor's Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled. She has provided assessment, treatment and consultation for sex offenders, victims and families in situations involving incest, assault and school-based sex crimes in the Capitol Region of New York. In this work, she has collaborated closely with the social services, law enforcement, and probation and parole. She has also served on rape crisis boards and with school districts as a sex abuse liaison.

Ms. Fennell was invited to serve as a scientific advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Health and was asked to participate as a peer reviewer for the American Pain Society. She was also appointed to serve on an allied health care advisory committee for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition, the instrument she developed for assessment of patients with chronic syndromes, the Fennell Phase Inventory (FPI)™, is used in a variety of medical research projects.

She is a dynamic and engaging presenter and is invited to lecture and teach internationally, utilizing her original content and curricula. Pat Fennell is a theorist, researcher, and author of several scholarly and popular books and articles, including The Chronic Illness Workbook, Managing Chronic Illness Using the Four-Phase Treatment Approach, and Handbook of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Ms. Fennell has received numerous professional and community honors and serves on the boards of several international medical and professional organizations, including the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the Board of Directors of the International Association for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and ME, the Medical Advisory Board of the National Fibromyalgia Association, and the Medical Advisory Panel for the Fibromyalgia Support Group for Surrey and Sussex, U.K.. She utilizes her experience in forensics, trauma, death/dying, bereavement, hospice care innovation, and restorative justice to provide consultation for a variety of organizations including government agencies, management consulting groups, patient organizations, Fortune 150 companies, university faculty, and victim and offender services organizations. Ms. Fennell continues to see patients and supervise other clinicians.