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2015 LDA Conference Agenda

June 15, 2015

Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases: Science Bridging the Gap

Saturday Agenda Sunday Agenda Registration

**AGENDA – SATURDAY November 14, 2015**
7:15 – 8:00 AM	Registration/Exhibits/Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15 AM	Patricia V. Smith, BA, President, Lyme Disease Association, Inc., Conference Planner, Conference Organizing Committee Welcome, Remarks / Brief Overview of Lyme Spread / Introduction Session Facilitator Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH; Conference Director, Conference Organizing Committee
8:15 – 8:55 AM	William Robinson, MD, PhD “Next Generation Diagnostics for Lyme Disease” Keynote
8:55 – 9:30 AM	Kim Lewis, PhD “B. Burgdorferi Persisters and Their Eradication”
9:30 – 10:05 AM	Ying Zhang, PhD “Borrelia Persister Drugs: Implications for Improved Treatment”
10:05-10:20 AM	Morning Discussion Panel
10:20-10:35 AM	Coffee Break
10:35-11:10 AM	Nicholas Komar, SD “Heartland Virus, an Emerging Tick-borne Virus?”
11:10-11:45 PM	Geeta Ramesh, PHD “A Role for Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Lyme Neuroborreliosis”
11:45-12:20 PM	Tim G. Brooks, MA, MB, BChir, LMSSA, MSc, FRCPath, FRSPH “Lyme Borreliosis in England”
12:20–1:35 PM	Lunch
	Richard T. Marconi, PhD Conference Co-Director, Organizing Committee, Saturday Afternoon Facilitator
1:35 – 2:05 PM	Hassan M. Minhas, MD, MB, BS “Suicide & Lyme Neuroborreliosis: Case Report”
2:05 – 2:40 PM	Klemen Strle, MD “Microbial and Host Factors in Immune Responses in Lyme Disease”
2:40 – 3:15 PM	Brian A. Fallon, MD “PANDAS, PANS, & Lyme”
3:15 – 3:30 PM	Midafternoon Discussion Panel
3:30 – 3:45 PM	Afternoon Coffee Break
3:45 – 4:20 PM	Philip J. Molloy, MD “Borrelia miyamotoi”
4:20 − 4:55 PM	Richard T. Marconi, PhD “Chimeric Linear Epitope Based Vaccines for Lyme Disease & Other Tick-borne Diseases: Progress Report on The Road to a New Human Vaccine”
4:55 − 5:10 PM	Afternoon Discussion Panel
5:30 – 7:30 PM	NETWORKING RECEPTION

**AGENDA – SUNDAY November 15, 2015**

(Breakfast on your own)
7:30 – 8:00 AM	Registration/Exhibits Steven Schutzer, MD, Sunday Facilitator
8:00 – 8:35 AM	John N. Aucott, MD “Serum Cytokine and Chemokine Biomarkers for Post-treatment Lyme Disease”
8:35 – 9:10 AM	Edward B. Breitschwerdt, DVM “Bartonellosis”
9:10 – 9:45 AM	Charles Chiu, MD, PhD “Genomic Investigations of Lyme Disease”
9:45–10:20 AM	Erin McGintee, MD “Alpha-Gal Meat Allergy after Lone Star Tick Bite”
10:20–10:40 AM	Morning Discussion Panel
10:40–11:10 AM	Break
	Point – Counterpoint
11:10–11:45 AM	Raphael B. Stricker, MD “Evidence Suggests the Potential for Sexual Transmission”
11:45-12:20 PM	Sam T. Donta, MD “Evidence Suggests Lyme is Not Sexually Transmissable”
12:20–12:40 PM	Discussion/Q & A on Sexual Transmission
12:40–1:15 PM	William V. Padula, OD, DPNAP, FAAO, FNORA “Current Research Implications Regarding the consequences of Tick-borne Disease on Vision and Visual Processing”
1:15–1:50 PM	Richard S. Ostfeld, PhD “The Ecology of Pathogen Amplification in Communities of Tick Hosts”
1:50–2:00 PM	Afternoon Discussion Panel