2013 LDA Conference Agenda

March 18, 2013

**11.0 Prescribed CME Credits for Physicians**

Saturday Agenda Sunday Agenda Conference Information

**Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases: Science, Research & Myth**

**AGENDA – SATURDAY JUNE 1, 2013**
7:15 – 8:00 AM	REGISTRATION/EXHIBITS/CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00 – 8:10 AM	Patricia V. Smith, President, Lyme Disease Association, Inc. Welcome & Remarks
8:10 – 8:20 AM	Patricia V. Smith, President, Lyme Disease Association, Inc. Brief Lyme Overview & Intro of Facilitator: Dr. RW (Bill) Stich
8:20 – 9:00 AM	George Chaconas, PhD Saturday Keynote Speaker Live Imaging Studies of Dissemination of the Lyme Spirochete in Mice
Myths
9:00 – 9:30 AM	Kenneth Liegner MD Problems of Lyme Disease Testing
9:30 – 10:00 AM	John Aucott MD Erythema Migrans (EM) in Lyme Diagnosis
10:00-10:30 AM	Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH Lyme Disease or Hypochondriasis
10:30-10:40 AM	MORNING COFFEE BREAK
10:40-11:00 AM	Discussion (Myth panel)
Ticks & TBD’s
11:00-11:35 AM	Ellen Stromdahl, MS US Army Findings in Ticks from the Upper Midwest
11:35-12:10 PM	RW Stich, PhD Persistence of Tick-Borne Infections
12:10–12:45 PM	Edward Breitschwerdt, DVM Bartonelliosis: A One Health Approach to a Persisitent Blood-Borne Infection
12:45-1:45 PM	LUNCH BREAK
1:45 PM	Introduction of Session Facilitator: Elizabeth Maloney, MD
1:45 – 2:00 PM	Discussion (Ticks & Tick-Borne Diseases panel)
Differential Diagnosis
2:00 – 2:35 PM	Richard Rhee, MD Lyme Disease: Neurologic Differential
2:35 – 3:10 PM	Ernest Visconti, MD Helpful Hints in the Differential Diagnosis of Lyme Disease
3:10 – 3:25 PM	AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK
3:25 – 4:00 PM	Leila Zackrison, MD Lyme Disease: Rheumatologic/Autoimmune Differential
4:00 − 4:35 PM	Sam T. Donta, MD Issues in the Treatment of Lyme Disease
4:35 − 5:00 PM	Discussion (Afternoon panel)
5:15 – 6:45 PM	NETWORKING RECEPTION

**AGENDA – SUNDAY JUNE 2, 2013**
7:30 – 8:00 AM	REGISTRATION/EXHIBITS/CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
8:00 AM	Patricia V. Smith Introduces Session Facilitator: Brian A. Fallon, MD
8:00 – 8:35 AM	Madeleine Cunningham, PhD Anti-Neuronal Antibiodies in Lyme Disease
8:35–9:15 AM	Judith Miklossy, MD, PhD, DSc Sunday Keynote Speaker Neuropathophysiology of Late/Chronic Lyme Disease & its Relation with Alzheimer’s Disease
9:15–9:50 AM	Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD B Cell Subversion During Borrelia Infection – A Persistence Strategy?
9:50–10:00 AM	MORNING COFFEE BREAK
10:00–10:35 AM	A.T. Charlie Johnson, PhD Detecting Lyme Disease Using Antibody-Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistors
10:35–11:10 AM	Sam Shor, MD, FACP Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Lyme Disease – Is There A Connection?
11:10-11:45 PM 11:45-12:00 N	Elizabeth Maloney, MD The Ethics of Clinical Decision-Making When the Scientific Evidence is Unclear or Absent DISCUSSION PANEL