Save the Date: 2017 Lyme Disease Association/Columbia Lyme Conference

DrFallonSm 640x794The Lyme Disease Association announces its 18th annual Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases scientific conference will be held September 23 & 24, 2017. It is being held in Philadelphia, PA at the Hilton Penns Landing on the banks of the Delaware. Columbia University jointly provides the conference.

hilton penns landing 900vpHilton Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing The Lyme Disease Association announces its 18th annual Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases scientific conference will be held September 23 & 24, 2017. It DrFallonSm 640x794Brian Fallon, MD, Columbia University, Conference Directoris being held in Philadelphia, PA at the Hilton Penns Landing on the banks of the Delaware. Columbia University jointly provides the conference. This series of past conferences held in cities across the US have included the top researchers in the US and the world on topics that include Lyme disease testing, the mechanisms of disease persistence, Lyme disease treatment and antibiotics, biomarkers, neurologic and cardiac Lyme, case studies, other tick-borne diseases, epidemiology, and tick control. We will post 2017 topics in the upcoming months. Mark your calendars. Click here for prior conferences.


Poster Presentations
Abstracts to be considered for poster presentations at the conference must be submitted by June 1, 2017 to
[email protected], copy to [email protected]

Further conference information will be posted as it becomes available.


Exhibit space
Exhibit space will be available. Further information will be posted in the future.


Photos from Prior Conferences

Zhang Lyme Disease Association Conference 2015Ying Zhang, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health – November 14, 2015 – LDA/Columbia Annual Scientific Conference (LDA file photo)

 

DSC03118 Breen sm2Joseph Breen, PhD National Institutes of Health (NIH) Morning Facilitator – May 3, 2014, LDA/Columbia Annual Scientific Conference (LDA file photo) 2012 Conf Speak LQ14September 29, 2012, LDA/Columbia Annual Scientific Conference ~ Discussion (morning speakers) (Photo: Jessica Harper Thomson)