2012 LDA/Columbia Conference Agenda - Lyme Disease Association

Saturday Agenda Sunday Agenda Registration

**AGENDA – SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2012**
7:00 – 8:00 AM	REGISTRATION/BREAKFAST/EXHIBITS
8:00 – 8:15 AM	Welcome, Remarks, and Introduction (Conference Organizer) Patricia Smith, President, Lyme Disease Association, Inc. (LDA) Introduction of Morning Session Facilitator: Stephen W. Barthold, DVM, PhD (Course Co-Director)
8:15 – 8:55 AM	Saturday Keynote Speaker: Stephen W. Barthold, DVM, PhD Overview of Borrelia burgdorferi in the Mouse: Persistence and Post-Antibiotic Survival?
8:55 – 9:30 AM	Monica Embers, PhD Post-treatment persistence and sero diagnosis of Lyme disease: studies in rhesus macaques
9:30 – 10:05 AM	Janis Weis, PhD Mouse model of chronic inflammatory response to B. burgdorferi
10:05-10:40 AM	Steven J. Norris, PhD How do Lyme disease Borrelia cause disease?
10:40-11:00 AM	MORNING BREAK
11:00-11:35 AM	Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD B cell subversion during Borrelia infection – a persistence strategy?
11:35-12:10 PM	Linden Hu, MD Reservoir targeted vaccines for control of Lyme disease
12:10-12:45 PM	Eva Sapi, PhD In Vitro antimicrobial sensitivity studies
12:45–2:00 PM	LUNCH BREAK
	Introduction by Pat Smith, Afternoon Session Facilitator: Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH (Course Co-Director)
2:00 – 2:15 PM	Discussion (morning speakers)
2:15 – 2:50 PM	C. Ben Beard, PhD Trends in tick-borne diseases in the U.S.
2:50 – 3:25 PM	John Drulle Memorial Lecture: John Aucott, MD Microbiologic & immune events in early Lyme disease
3:25 – 4:00 PM	Alireza Shamshirsaz, MD Tick-borne diseases and pregnancy
4:00 – 4:35 PM	Randi Eikeland, MD Long-term follow up study of neurologic Lyme disease
4:35 – 4:50 PM	Discussion (afternoon speakers)
4:50 − 5:00 PM	Wrap Up Discussion
5:15 − 6:15 PM	NETWORKING RECEPTION

**AGENDA – SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 2012**

**(Breakfast on your own)**
7:30 – 8:00 AM	REGISTRATION/EXHIBITS
	Morning Facilitator: Stephen W. Barthold, DVM, PhD
8:00 – 8:40 AM	Sunday Keynote Speaker: Kim Lewis, PhD Antibiotic tolerance & microbial persistence
8:40 – 9:15 AM	Diego Cadavid, MD Blood brain barrier & impact of Borrelial infection
9:15–9:50 AM	Tom P. Greco, MD Antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with purported chronic Lyme disease
9:50–10:30 AM	CW Ang, MD, PHD (Netherlands) Serologic tests for Lyme disease – how reliable are they?
10:30–11:05 AM	Emmanuel Mongodin, PhD Genome stability of Lyme disease spirochetes
11:05–11:20 AM	BREAK Mid-Day Facilitator: John Aucott, MD
11:20–11:55 PM	Martin Fried, MD, FAAP, ABPNS Nutrition & Lyme disease
11:55-12:30 PM	Ibrahim M. Binalsheikh, MD Neurologic Lyme disease and Alice in Wonderland syndrome
12:30 – 1:05 PM	Michael Cichon, MD Considerations in the diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne diseases
1:05 – 1:40 PM	Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH Lyme disease, depression, and suicide
1:40 – 2:00 PM	Discussion