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Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases: 20th Annual Scientific Update for Clinicians & Researchers
The Lyme Disease Association, Inc. with joint provider Columbia University, is holding its annual scientific CME conference, Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases: 20th Annual Scientific Update for Clinicians & Researchers. Brian Fallon, MD, Columbia University is Conference Director. It will be held at the Hilton Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday and Sunday, September 21 & 22. The conference is designed for physicians and researchers but the public is invited to register. AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM will be offered by Columbia University to CME-registered physician attendees. The conference features faculty consisting of clinicians and researchers from across the US. Below are the speakers who have confirmed to date.
Lance A. Liotta, MD PhD
University Professor
Co-Director, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine
Medical Director, Clinical Proteomics Lab
College of Science
George Mason University
Manassas, VA
Shedding of urinary tick pathogen-specific proteins in patients with tick borne diseases
Emir Hodzic, DVM, MSc, PhD
Director, Real-Time PCR Research & Diagnostics Core Facility
School of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Medicine and Epidemiology
University of California
Davis, CA
Post-treatment persistence of antimicrobial tolerant replicatively-attenuated Borrelia burgdorferi in a mouse model
Osama Haddad, MD
Department of cardiovascular surgery
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
Mitral Valve Endocarditis: A Rare Manifestation of Lyme Disease
Holly M. Frost, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Denver Health Medical Center
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Denver, CO
The pitfalls of serologic assays for the diagnosis of tick-borne diseases: a case series and review of the literature
Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH
Conference Director
Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons
Director, Columbia Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center
Director, Ctr. Study of Neuroinflammatory and Somatic Disorders
Columbia University
New York, NY
Clinical Trials: Biologic & Clinical Measures of Change
Ingeborg Dziedzic, MD, ABAARM
Pleasant Vision Ophthalmology Practice
Pleasantville, NY
Potential late ophthalmic consequences of Lyme Disease
J. Stephen Dumler, MD
Chair, Department of Pathology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine
Bethesda, MD
Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis-Emerging Faster than Lyme
Sam T. Donta, MD
Consultant Infectious Diseases
Falmouth Massachusetts Hospital
Falmouth, MA
Conference Facilitator
Madeleine W. Cunningham, Ph.D.
George Lynn Cross Research Professor
Presbyterian Health Foundation Presidential Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
Director, Immunology Training Program
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Biomedical Research Center
Oklahoma City, OK
From Bench to Bedside: Anti-Neuronal Autoantibodies in Lyme Disease and Beyond
Charles Chiu, MD, PhD
Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of California
San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA
Multi-Omics approaches to diagnosis of Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections
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About LDA DOCTOR REFERRAL SYSTEM ©
Welcome to the Lyme Disease Association’s LDA Doctor Referral System ©. LDA made updates and enhancements to its prior system and has launched a new site to provide patients with information about doctors, other practitioners, testing labs, and pharmacies that are knowledgeable about chronic Lyme disease and often about many other tick-borne diseases (TBD). Many of the doctors listed are often referred to as Lyme Literate Physicians/Doctors (LLMD). Tens of thousands of patients have successfully used the prior LDA system to locate Lyme and TBD resources.
Terms & Conditions and Guidelines
Because there is a negative political climate surrounding Lyme disease, many LLMDs do not want their names posted outright on the internet. LDA has tried to balance the doctors’ wishes with patients’ need to find a doctor. This new system is a result of that compromise and therefore:
Because of the limited number of physicians treating chronic Lyme disease nationwide, some states, and in some instances, entire regions, may not have any treating physicians who follow flexible treating approaches such as those in the International Lyme & Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) Guidelines, Evidence Assessments and Guideline Recommendations in Lyme Disease: The Clinical Management of Known Tick Bites, Erythema Migrans Rashes and Persistent Disease. In the event that the LDA Doctor Referral System © contains no Lyme or TBD resource listings in a given area, the closest possible option(s) will populate based on the location entered and specaialty/ies selected. The LDA appreciates any changes in provider information that you may find and make us aware of so we can investigate.