2016 LDA/Columbia Conference Agenda

January 14, 2019

Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases: New Strategies to Tackle an Expanding Epidemic

Saturday Agenda Sunday Agenda Registration

**AGENDA – SATURDAY October 15, 2016**
7:15 – 8:00 AM	Registration/Exhibits/Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:20 AM	Patricia V. Smith, BA President, Lyme Disease Association, Inc., Jackson, NJ Conference Planner, Conference Organizing Committee “Welcome, Remarks / Brief Overview of LDA, Lyme & TBD” Introduction of: Brian A. Fallon, MD Course Director, Organizing Committee; Saturday Afternoon Facilitator Elizabeth Maloney, MD; Conference Organizing Committee; Morning Session Facilitator
8:20 – 9:00 AM	Robert D. Moir, PhD Keynote Assistant Professor in Neurology, Genetics and Aging Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA “Amyloid-Beta, Alzheimer’s and Lyme Disease”
9:00 – 9:35 AM	Judith Miklossy, MD, PhD Director, International Alzheimer Research Center Switzerland “Historic and Recent Evidence that Spirochetes Are Able to Reproduce the Clinical, Pathological and Biological Hallmarks of Alzheimer’s Disease.”
9:35 – 10:10 AM	Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physician & Surgeons Director, Columbia Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center, NY Director, Center for Study of Neuroinflammatory Disorders & Biobehavioral Medicine, NYSPI “Acute & Chronic Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease”
10:10–10:25 PM	Morning Discussion Panel
10:25–10:40 PM	Coffee Break
10:40-11:15 AM	Kevin Esvelt, PhD Assistant Professor, MIT Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA “Community-Guided Ecological Immunization to Prevent Tick-Borne Disease”
11:15-11:50 PM	Steve Zatechka, PhD, MBA Chief Operating Officer US BIOLOGIC, Memphis, TN “A One-Health Path to Prevent Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases”
11:50-12:25 PM	Rafal Tokarz, PhD Associate Research Scientist, Center for Infection & Immunity Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, NY “Virome Analysis in Ticks”
12:25–12:40 PM	Late Morning Discussion Panel
12:40–1:45 PM	Lunch
	Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH, Conference Director, Organizing Committee Saturday Afternoon Facilitator
1:45 – 2:20 PM	Kerry Clark, PhD, MPH Professor, Epidemiology & Environmental Health University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL “Update on Evidence of Lyme Borrelia in Ticks, Dogs and People in the Southeastern US”
2:20 – 2:55 PM	Bobbi S. Pritt, MD Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine & Pathology Director, Clinical Parasitology Lab, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN “Borrelia Mayonii: A New Cause of Lyme Disease in the Upper Midwestern US”
2:55 – 3:30 PM	Timothy Lepore, MD, FACS General Surgery, Family Medicine Surgeon at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, MA “Tularemia”
3:30 – 3:45 PM	Mid-Afternoon Discussion Panel
3:45 – 4:00 PM	Afternoon Coffee Break
4:00 – 4:35 PM	Evan M. Bloch, MBChB, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Biology, Dept. of Pathology Johns Hopkins University, MD “Babesia & Blood Supply: Lessons Learned”
4:35 − 5:10 PM	Alessandra Luchini, PhD Assistant Professor, Applied Proteomics & Molecular Medicine George Mason University, VA “Nanotechnology & Proteomics: Improved Diagnostics & Therapeutics in the Era of Personalized Medicine”
5:10 − 5:20 PM	Afternoon Discussion Panel
5:20 − 5:30 PM	Wrap up comments / questions
5:45 – 7:45 PM	NETWORKING RECEPTION

**AGENDA – SUNDAY October 16, 2016**

(breakfast on your own)
7:30 – 8:00 AM	Registration/Exhibits/Registration/Exhibits Kenneth Liegner, MD Sunday Morning Facilitator Brian A. Fallon, MD Sunday Afternoon Facilitator
8:00 – 8:35 AM	Ying Zhang, MD, PhD Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology Johns Hopkins University, MD “Eradication of Borrelia Persisters for More Effective Treatment of Lyme Disease”
8:35 – 9:10 AM	Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH Internist, Epidemiologist Dr. Daniel Cameron & Associates, Mt. Kisco, NY “Studies in Practice”
9:10 – 9:45 AM	Lise Nigrovic, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Emergency Medicine Director of Education, Clinical Research Center; Senior Associate Physician in Medicine Boston Children’s Hospital, MA “Initial Management of a Child with Potential Lyme Disease”
9:45 – 10:20 AM	Elizabeth L. Maloney, MD President, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education, a Lyme CME Provider Family Physician, Wyoming, MN “Lyme Carditis: A Front-Line Perspective”
10:20–10:40 PM	Morning Discussion Panel
10:40–11:15 PM	Food Break
11:15-11:50 AM	Tim Sellati, PhD Distinguished Fellow & Chair Department of Infectious Diseases Drug Discovery Division Southern Research Institute, AL “Controlling the Inflammatory Response in Lyme Arthritis–What Mouse Model teaches Us about Human Disease”
11:50-12:25 PM	Patricia K. Coyle MD, FAAN, FANA Professor & Vice Chair Clinical Affairs; Director, MS Comprehensive Care Center Stony Brook University Medical Center, NY “Diagnosing Neurologic Lyme Disease”
12:25 – 12:35 PM	Mid-Morning Discussion
12:35 – 1:10 PM	John Aucott, MD Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD “Measuring the Human Immune Response in Lyme Disease”
1:10 – 1:45 PM	C. Ben Beard, MS, PhD Chief, Bacterial Diseases Branch Division of Vector-Borne Diseases Associate Director for Climate and Health National Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, Ft. Collins, CO “The Expansion in Distribution of Ixodes scapularis & Ixodes pacificus and Reported Cases of Lyme Disease in the U.S.”
1:45 – 2:20 PM	Marna E. Ericson, PhD Director, Cutaneous Imaging Center Department of Dermatology, University of Minnesota, MN “Mechanisms of Persistence of Bartonella Species”
2:20 – 2:30 PM	Afternoon Discussion Panel