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2017 LDA/Columbia Conference Agenda

May 14, 2017

Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Conference:
What Clinicians Need to Know about an Expanding Epidemic

Saturday Agenda Sunday Agenda Registration

AGENDA – SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

7:15 – 8:00 AM	Registration / Exhibits / Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:20 AM	Patricia V. Smith, President, 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, MPH, Course Director, Organizing Committee; Saturday Morning Facilitator
8:20 – 9:00 AM	Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD Keynote Professor, Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology Center for Comparative Medicine, University of California Davis Davis, CA Borrelia burgdorferi and the Subversion of the Adaptive Immune Response
9:00 – 9:35 AM	Garth Ehrlich, PhD Prof Microbiology/Immunology, Executive Dir, Ctr for Biofilms & Chronic Infections Drexel University College of Medicine Philadelphia, PA Development of Pan-Domain Diagnostics to Provide Accurate and Comprehensive Analyses of Lyme Disease and Tick-Borne Co-Infections
9:35 – 10:10 AM	Eva Sapi, PhD Professor and Department Chair, Director of Lyme Disease Program Department of Biology and Environmental Science University of New Haven West Haven, CT Biofilms and Lyme Disease
10:10 – 10:25 AM	Morning Discussion Panel
10:25 – 10:40 AM	Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:15 AM	Ying Zhang, MD, PhD Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology & Immunology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD Persisters
11:15 – 11:50 PM	John Aucott, MD Asst. Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Director, Johns Hopkins Rheumatology Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center Baltimore, MD Immune Biomarkers in Lyme Disease
11:50 – 12:25 PM	Sheila Arvikar, MD Physician Scientist, Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology and Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School Boston, MA Autoimmune Disorders Following Lyme Disease
12:25 – 12:40 PM	Late Morning Discussion Panel
12:40 – 1:45 PM	Lunch
	Travis Taylor Afternoon Facilitator
1:45 – 2:20 PM	Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH Professor of Psychiatry Director, Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center Columbia University Medical Center Director, Center Study of Neuroinflammatory Disorders/Biobehavioral Medicine New York State Psychiatric Institute New York, NY Why do Symptoms Persist?
2:20 – 2:55 PM	Robert Bransfield, MD, DLFAPA Associate Clinical Professor, Rutgers-RWJ School of Medicine Private Practice in Psychiatry Red Bank, NJ The Psychoimmunology of Lyme and Associated Diseases
2:55 – 3:30 PM	Diego Cadavid, MD Adjunct Associate Professor, Neurology and Neuroscience New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, Newark, NJ Vice President of Clinical Development Fulcrum Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA Treatment of Neurologic Lyme Disease
3:30 – 3:45 PM	Mid-Afternoon Discussion Panel
3:45 – 4:00 PM	Afternoon Coffee Break
4:00 – 4:35 PM	Sam Telford, MD, PhD Professor, Infectious Diseases and Global Health Tufts University North Grafton, MA Babesia microti, B. duncani, & B. miyamotoi
4:35 – 5:10 PM	Ed Breitschwerdt, DVM Professor of Medicine & Infectious Diseases North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Duke Director, Intracellular Pathogens Res. Lab, Ctr for Comp. Med./Translational Res. Co-Director, Vector-Borne Diseases Diagnostic Lab Director, NCSU-CVM Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory, Raleigh, NC Chief Scientific Officer, Galaxy Diagnostics, Inc. Bartonella henselae
5:10 – 5:45 PM	Saravanan Thangamani, MSc, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Pathology Vice-Chair, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Director, Insectary Services Core Director, Arthropod Containment Laboratories University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX Powassan Virus: An Emerging Tick-Borne Virus of Public Health Concern in North America
5:45 – 6:00 PM	Late Afternoon Discussion
6:00 – 8:00 PM	NETWORKING RECEPTION

AGENDA – SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

7:30 – 8:00 AM	Registration / Exhibits
	John Aucott, MD Sunday Facilitator
8:00 – 8:35 AM	Monica E. Embers, PhD Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology Tulane National Primate Research Center Covington, LA The Challenges of Diagnosing and Curing Late Stage Lyme Disease
8:35 – 9:10 AM	Safwan Jaradeh, MD Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences Autonomic and Neuromuscular Disorders Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, CA Autonomic Dysfunction in Post-Infectious States
9:10 – 9:45 AM	Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FCCS Professor of Medicine, Queen’s University Ontario, CA Lyme Carditis and Management of High Degree AV Block
9:45 – 10:20 AM	Ahmet Z. Burakgazi, MD Associate Professor Neuroscience Section/Department of Neurology Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Roanoke, VA Case Report: Optic Neuritis and Probable Lyme Disease
10:20 – 10:55 AM	Food Break
10:55 – 11:15 AM	Morning Discussion Panel
11:15 – 11:50 PM	Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA CEO, LymeDisease.org Principle Investigator, MyLymeData Member, Pt Centered Research Outcomes Inst, Expert Panel Open Access Steering Committee, Consumers United for Evidence-Based Healthcare MyLymeData: The Value of Using Big Data and Subgroup Analysis in Lyme Disease
11:50 – 12:25 PM	Panel Discussion: Challenges in the Study of Chronic Lyme Disease Sunday Afternoon Facilitator Monica Embers, PhD Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD Diego Cadavid MD, FAAN Brian Fallon, MD, MPH Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA
12:25 – 1:00 PM	Christopher D. Paddock, MD, MPHTM Medical Officer, Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA The Evolving Mosaic of Tick-Borne Rickettsioses in the United States
1:00 – 1:15 PM	BREAK
1:15 – 1:50 PM	Travis Taylor, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology University of Toledo Health Science Campus Toledo, OH Host-Specific Antiviral Responses to the Tick-Borne Flaviviruses: Powassan and TBEV
1:50 – 2:25 PM	James L. Occi, MS, MA, PhD (in progress) Center for Vector Biology, Department of Entomology Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Research/Teaching Specialist Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ Tick-Borne Disease Ecology: New Jersey, A Microcosm of the Northeastern US
2:25 – 2:45 PM	Afternoon Discussion Panel