2019 Conference Agenda

Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases: 20th Annual Scientific Update for Clinicians & Researchers

Saturday Agenda   Sunday Agenda   Registration

Note: The order of the speakers is subject to change

AGENDA – SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21 , 2019

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, Conference Planning Committee; Morning Facilitator
8:20 – 9:00 AM	Charles Chiu MD, PhD / Keynote Professor, Laboratory Medicine & Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California School of Medicine San Francisco, CA Multi-Omics approaches to diagnosis of Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections
9:00 – 9:35 AM	George Chaconas, PhD Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Snyder Institute of Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta Canada An inside look at the life of a pathogen: intravital imaging to study hematogenous dissemination of the Lyme disease spirochete
9:35 – 10:10 AM	Emir Hodzic, DVM, MSc, PhD  Director, Real-Time PCR Research & Diagnostics Core Facility School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, CA Post-treatment persistence of antimicrobial tolerant replicatively-attenuated Borrelia burgdorferi in a mouse model
10:10 – 10:25 AM	Morning Discussion Panel
10:25 – 10:40 AM	Coffee Break
	Saturday Facilitator Sam Donta, MD
10:40 – 11:15 AM	Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FCCS Professor of Medicine (Tenure) Queen’s University Ontario, Canada Systematic approach for the diagnosis & treatment of Lyme carditis
11:15 – 11:50 AM	Osama Haddad, MD Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH Mitral Valve Endocarditis: A Rare Manifestation of Lyme Disease
11:50 – 12:25 PM	Peter Novak, MD, PhD Division Chief, Autonomic Neurology Director, Autonomic Laboratory Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital Assistant Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA Neurological correlates of Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
12:25 – 12:40 PM	Late Morning Discussion Panel
12:40 – 1:45 PM	Lunch
	Afternoon Facilitator
1:45 – 2:20 PM	Holly M. Frost MD  Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics University of Colorado School of Medicine Denver, CO The pitfalls of serologic assays for the diagnosis of tick-borne diseases: a case series and review of the literature
2:20 – 2:55 PM	Robert Naviaux MD, PhD Professor of Genetics, Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Pathology; Co-director, Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center UCSD School of Medicine San Diego, CA Metabolomic Features of Acute and Chronic Lyme Disease—Early Results from the UCSD Lyme-ME/CFS Comparison Study
2:55 – 3:30 PM	Madeline W. Cunningham, PhD Professor, Microbiology & Immunology Directory, Immunology Training Program University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OK From Bench to Bedside: Anti-Neuronal Autoantibodies in Lyme Disease and Beyond
3:30 – 3:45 PM	Mid-Afternoon Discussion Panel
3:45 – 4:00 PM	Afternoon Coffee Break
4:00 – 4:35 PM	Choukri Ben Mamoun, PhD Professor of Medicine and Microbial Pathogenesis Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT Continuous in vitro culture of Babesia duncani in human red blood cells: An inflection point in diagnosis and therapy of human babesiosis
4:35 – 5:10 PM	Margaret R. MacDonald, MD, PhD Research Associate Professor The Rockefeller University New York, NY Powassan virus: an emerging tick-borne threat
5:10 – 5:45 PM	Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH Professor of Psychiatry Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons Director, Columbia Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center Director, Ctr. Study of Neuroinflammatory Disorders/Biobehavioral Medicine, New York State Psychiatric Institute New York, NY Clinical Trials: Biologic & Clinical Measures of Change
5:45 – 6:00 PM	Late Afternoon Discussion Panel
6:15 – 8:15 PM	NETWORKING RECEPTION

AGENDA – SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 2019  (Breakfast on your own)

7:30 – 8:00 AM	Registration / Exhibits / BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN
	Sunday Facilitator Elizabeth Maloney, MD
8:00 – 8:35 AM	Daniel Sonenshine, PhD Professor (Emeritus) Department of Biological Sciences Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA How Climate Change Affects Range Expansion of Tick Vectors and Spread of Tick-borne Disease in North America
8:35 – 9:10 AM	Philip Strandwitz, PhD CEO and Co-founder, Holobiome, Inc. Visiting Scholar, Antimicrobial Discovery Center Department of Biology, Northeastern University Boston, MA The Gut-Brain-Axis – Potential Therapeutic Targets
9:10 – 9:45 AM	Joanna Lyons, Pharm D, MEd, MHS, CHES, BCGP Advanced Clinical Pharmacist University of Maryland School of Pharmacy Baltimore, MD The possible association between the human ABCB1 gene and Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome
9:45 – 10:20 AM	Mark J. Soloski PhD  Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Molecular Biology and Genetics and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Co-Director for Basic Research, Lyme Disease Research Center Baltimore, MD The host immune response in Lyme borreliosis
10:20 – 10:55 AM	Food Break
10:55 – 11:15 AM	Morning Discussion Panel
11:15 – 11:50 PM	Paige Armstrong, MD, MHS Medical Epidemiologist, Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Atlanta, GA Rickettsial diseases; Epidemiologic trends, clinical diagnosis and management
11:50 – 12:25 PM	J. Stephen Dumler, MD Chair, Department of Pathology Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine Bethesda, MD Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis-Emerging Faster than Lyme
12:25 – 1:00 PM	Eric Storch, PhD Professor and McIngvale Presidential Endowed Chair Vice Chair & Head, Psychology Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Baylor College of Medicine, TX Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
1:00 – 1:10 PM	BREAK
1:10 – 1:25 PM	Mid-Morning Discussion Panel
1:25 – 2:00 PM	Lance A. Liotta, MD PhD University Professor Co-Director Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine Medical Director Clinical Proteomics Lab College of Science George Mason University, VA Shedding of urinary tick pathogen-specific proteins in patients with tick borne diseases
2:00 – 2:35 PM	Ingeborg Dziedzic, MD, ABAARM Pleasant Vision Ophthalmology Practice Pleasantville, NY Potential late ophthalmic consequences of Lyme Disease
2:35 – 3:00 PM	Afternoon Discussion Panel