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2023 Conference Agenda
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Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases: Research & Clinical Advances 2023 Friday Agenda Saturday Agenda Note: The order of the speakers is subject to change. See Speaker List. All times are EST […]
Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases: Research & Clinical Advances 2023 Friday Agenda Saturday Agenda Note: The order of the speakers is subject to change. See Speaker List. All times are EST […]
Liz Horn, PhD, MBI
Principal Investigator,
Lyme Disease Biobank
Portland, OR
Co-Presenters, Drs. Embers & Horn
Identifying Pathogens in Post-Mortem Tissue Through the Lyme Disease Biobank Tissue Pipeline
Alison Hinckley, PhD
Lead, Epidemiology/Surveillance Team
Bacterial Diseases Branch
Division of Vector-borne Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Fort Collins, CO
Changes to Surveillance for Lyme Disease — United States, 2022
An article regarding recent study on effectiveness of permethrin-treated uniforms against ticks was conducted at Department of Defense (DOD) Military Tick Identification/Infection Confirmation Kit Program (MilTICK program) was published by […]
William V. Padula, OD, SFNAP, FAAO, FNORA
Director, Padula Institute of Vision Rehabilitation. Guilford, Ct
Staff Appointment, Gaylord Hospital, Wallingford, CT 1992-
Staff Appointment, Rehabilitation Hospital of Connecticut, Hartford, CT, 1995-
Associate Professor, Salus University of Health Sciences Col. of Optometry
Adjunct Faculty, Western University of Health Sciences, Col. of Optometry
Peri-papillary Ischemia as a Potential Screening Biomarker for Early Detection of Tick-borne Infection
Scott P Commins, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Allergy, Immunology & Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Alpha-gal syndrome, mast cells and tick bites
Choukri Ben Mamoun, PhD
Keynote Speaker
Professor of Medicine, Microbial Pathogenesis and Pathology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Human babesiosis
Brian A Fallon, MD, MPH
Conference Co-Director
Conference Planning Committee
Professor, Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), NYC, NY
Director, Lyme & Tick-borne Diseases Research Center, CUIMC, NYC, NY
Director, Clinical Trials Coordinating Center for Lyme & Other Tick-borne Diseases at CUIMC, NYC, NY
Director, Center for Neuroinflammatory and Somatic Disorders, New York State Psychiatric Institute, NYC, NY
Long COVID and Long Lyme: Mental Health Implications
Peter Rowe, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Director, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center Chronic Fatigue Clinic
Sunshine Natural Wellbeing Foundation
Professor, Chronic Fatigue and Related Disorders
Managing Orthostatic Intolerance
Lawrence Afrin, MD
Senior Consultant, Hematology/Oncology
AIM Center for Personalized Medicine
Purchase, NY
Mast cell activation disease
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About LDA DOCTOR REFERRAL SYSTEM ©
Welcome to the Lyme Disease Association’s LDA Doctor Referral System ©. LDA made updates and enhancements to its prior system and has launched a new site to provide patients with information about doctors, other practitioners, testing labs, and pharmacies that are knowledgeable about chronic Lyme disease and often about many other tick-borne diseases (TBD). Many of the doctors listed are often referred to as Lyme Literate Physicians/Doctors (LLMD). Tens of thousands of patients have successfully used the prior LDA system to locate Lyme and TBD resources.
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Because there is a negative political climate surrounding Lyme disease, many LLMDs do not want their names posted outright on the internet. LDA has tried to balance the doctors’ wishes with patients’ need to find a doctor. This new system is a result of that compromise and therefore:
Because of the limited number of physicians treating chronic Lyme disease nationwide, some states, and in some instances, entire regions, may not have any treating physicians who follow flexible treating approaches such as those in the International Lyme & Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) Guidelines, Evidence Assessments and Guideline Recommendations in Lyme Disease: The Clinical Management of Known Tick Bites, Erythema Migrans Rashes and Persistent Disease. In the event that the LDA Doctor Referral System © contains no Lyme or TBD resource listings in a given area, the closest possible option(s) will populate based on the location entered and specaialty/ies selected. The LDA appreciates any changes in provider information that you may find and make us aware of so we can investigate.
Some providers may not specifically treat Lyme and TBD but see patients who have symptoms associated with Lyme and TBD to address those specific symptoms. Contact the provider to confirm.
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