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53 Members Named to Serve on Working Group Subcommittees
The Lyme Disease Association announces that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has selected 53 individual to serve on one of six subcommittees of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (Working Group). After reviewing the nominations, selections were made by the co-chairs overseeing each of the subcommittees. The Chair and Vice-Chair of the Working Group provided input and approved the final selections. All of the individuals were notified today, but they have not yet confirmed their availability to serve on the subcommittee that they were chosen to join. The final list of subcommittee members will be updated if any of them are no longer able to join a subcommittee.
From the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) webpage for the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group:
Ben Beard, PhD, Acting Deputy Dir., DVBD, CDC & Pat Smith, LDA President – Co-Chairs, HHS Working Group Disease Vectors, Surveillance, & Prevention Subcommittee The Lyme Disease Association announces that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has selected 53 individuals to serve on one of six subcommittees of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group (Working Group). After reviewing the nominations, selections were made by the co-chairs overseeing each of the subcommittees. The Chair and Vice-Chair of the Working Group provided input and approved the final selections. All of the individuals were notified today, but they have not yet confirmed their availability to serve on the subcommittee that they were chosen to join. The final list of subcommittee members will be updated if any of them are no longer able to join a subcommittee.
These subcommittees were established by the Working Group members during the December 12, 2017 meeting to assist them in identifying and reviewing information that provides the background, context, and evidence needed to develop the report to Congress and the HHS Secretary as required by the 21st Century Cures Act. The subcommittees will be led by members of the Working Group. The Chair and Vice-Chair of the Working Group will work in collaboration with the subcommittee Co-Chairs and the Designated Federal Officer to ensure that the work of the subcommittees is consistent with the needs of the Working Group and committee management laws and regulations. The roles of the subcommittees, the work they will be doing, and the reports that they will provide to the Working Group will discussed at the February 12, 2018 meeting.
The members of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group subcommittees are:
| Disease Vectors, Surveillance, and Prevention
Co-Chairs: Pat Smith and Ben Beard, MS, PhD |
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| Member | Affiliation |
| Jill Auerbach | Founder, Tick Research to Eliminate Diseases
Founder, Stop Ticks On People (S.T.O.P.) |
| Neeta Connally, PhD, MSPH | Associate Professor, Tick-borne Disease Prevention Laboratory, Western Connecticut State |
| Katherine Feldman, DVM, MPH | Senior Epidemiologist, MITRE |
| Thomas N. Mather, PhD | Professor, Center for Vector-Borne Disease
Director, TickEncounter Resource Center |
| Phyllis Mervine | President, LymeDisease.org |
| Colonel Robin Nadolny, PhD | COL, Medical Service Team Lead, Tick-Borne Disease Laboratory, Army Public Health Center |
| Adalberto Perez de Leon, DVM, PhD, MS | Director, Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service |
| Daniel E. Sonenshine, PhD | Eminent Professor of Biological Science, Old Dominion University |
| Jean I. Tsao, PhD | Associate Professor, Departments of Fisheries and Wildlife and of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, Michigan State University |
| Monica M. White | President and Co-founder, Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association
LymeDisease.org, Lyme Disease Association, Inc., Public Tick IPM working group, Chaffee County Health Coalition |
| Stephen Wikel, PhD | Professor and Chair Emeritus of Medical Sciences, St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Quinnipiac University |
| Pathogenesis, Transmission and Treatment
Co-Chairs: Wendy Adams, MBA and Captain Estella Jones, DVM |
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| Member | Affiliation |
| Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD | Professor, Center for Comparative Medicine and Dept. of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, UC Davis |
| Patricia K. Coyle, MD | Neurology Professor and Vice Chair, Dept. of Neurology
Director, MS Comprehensive Care Center, Stony Brook University Medical Center |
| Sam Donta, MD | Fellow Infectious Diseases, Infectious Disease Society of America
Consultant, Infectious Diseases |
| Brian Fallon, MD, MPH | Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, and Director, Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center, Columbia University |
| Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA | CEO, LymeDisease.org |
| Elizabeth Maloney, MD | President, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education |
| Jon Skare, PhD | Professor and Associate Head, Dept. of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A & M University |
| Brian Stevenson, PhD | Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine |
| Testing and Diagnostics
Co-Chairs: Lise E. Nigrovic, MD, MPH and Co-chair to be determined |
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| Member | Affiliation |
| Charles Y. Chiu, MD, PhD | Director, Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, UCSF |
| Roberta DeBiasi, MD, MS | Chief, CNMC Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Director, Fetal Infectious Diseases Program Co-Director, Congenital Zika Program at Children’s National |
| Noel Gerald, PhD | Biologist and Senior Scientific Reviewer, Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, FDA |
| Deborah Hoadley, MD, MPH | Director, New England Institute for Lyme Disease and Tick-Borne Illnesses |
| Maliha Ilias, PhD | Program Officer, Lyme Disease Research Bacteriology and Mycology Branch, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, NIH |
| Bobbi Pritt, MD, MSc | Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Co-Director, Vector-Borne Diseases Laboratory Services,
Mayo Clinic |
| David Roth, JD | Retired senior managing director of a private equity firm (Blackstone) |
| Steven Schutzer, MD | Professor of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School |
| Access to Care Services and Support to Patients
Co-Chairs: Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner, JD, MBA and Commander Scott Cooper, MMSc, PA-C |
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| Member | Affiliation |
| Ana Frost, PhD | The Institute for Functional Medicine |
| Holiday Goodreau | President and Executive Director, The LiveLyme Foundation |
| Susan Green, JD | Legislative Counsel, NatCapLyme |
| Enid Haller, LCSW, PhD | Executive Director, Lyme Center of Martha’s Vineyard
Martha’s Vineyard Lyme Support Group |
| Paula Jones Jackson | President & Co-Founder, Midcoast Lyme Disease Support & Education (MLDSE) |
| Colonel Nicole Malachowski | Retired, US Air Force |
| Leonard Schuchman, DO, MPH, FAAFP | Osteopathic Physician |
| Sheila M. Statlender, PhD | Clinical Psychologist, Private Practice |
| Kathleen Steele, LCSW | Psychotherapist |
| Vaccine and Therapeutics
Co-Chairs: Robert Smith, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA and Dennis Dixon, PhD |
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| Member | Affiliation |
| Felipe C. Cabello, MD | Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College |
| Monica E. Embers, PhD | Assistant Professor, and Director, TNPRC Vector-borne Diseases Core, Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology, Tulane National Primate Research Center |
| Maria Gomes-Solecki, PhD | Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
| Utpal Pal, PhD | Professor, University of Maryland |
| Stanley A. Plotkin, MD | Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania |
| Juan Salazar, MD, MPH, FAAP | Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics, University of Connecticut Medical School, and Physician in Chief and Executive VP, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center |
| Leigh Ann Soltysiak, MS | Self-employed, Owner, Principal Commercialization & Strategy Consultant, Silverleaf Consulting, LLC |
| David H. Walker, MD | The Carmage and Martha Walls Distinguished University Chair in Tropical Diseases, and Professor, Department of Pathology, and Executive Director, Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, The University of Texas Medical Branch |
| Other Tick-Borne Diseases and Co-Infections
Co-Chairs: Richard Horowitz, MD and Allen Richards, PhD |
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| Member | Affiliation |
| Megan Dulaney, MS | Senior Interagency Liaison, DOD Center for Health Engagement, Uniformed Services University for the Health Sciences, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine |
| Marna Ericson, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, and Director, Dermatology Imaging Center, University of Minnesota |
| Christine Green, MD | Physician, Green Oaks Medical Center, PC, and Director, LymeDisease.org |
| Charles Lubelczyk, MPH | Vector Ecologist, Maine Medical Center Research Institute |
| Ulrike G. Munderloh, DVM, PhD | Professor, University of Minnesota, Department of Entomology |
| Garth Nicolson, MD, PhD | President, Chief Scientific Officer and Emeritus Professor of Molecular Pathology, The Institute for Molecular Medicine |
| Christopher D. Paddock, MD, MPHTM | Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, CDC |
| Samuel S. Perdue, PhD | Section Chief, Basic Sciences, Bacteriology and Mycology Branch, DMID/NIAID/NIH |
| Sam R. Telford III, ScD | Professor of Infectious Disease and Global Health
Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University |