LYME DISEASE ASSOCIATION/COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE

Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases: 34 Years from Lyme, Connecticut Across the Nation

  			 AGENDA− MORNING

7:30 - 8:00 AM	                REGISTRATION/BREAKFAST/EXHIBITS

8:00 - 8:15 AM	 Welcome, Remarks, and Introduction	
 			  Patricia Smith, President, Lyme Disease Association
			  Introduction of: Richard Marconi, PhD,  Morning Session Facilitator

8:15 - 8:55 AM	                C. Ben Beard, PhD
			  Director, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Disease, CDC
			 “Lyme Disease in the United States”

8:55 - 9:30 AM	                Dr. Ed Masters Memorial Lecture
 Kerry Clark, PhD
			  Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health
			  University of North Florida
			  “Southern Tick-Borne Infections”

9:30 - 10:05 AM	                Susan E. Little, DVM, PhD
                                             Professor / Krull-Ewing Endowed Chair
			  Dept. for Veterinary Pathology, Oklahoma State University
			  “Dogs as Sentinels of Tick-Borne Infection”

10:05 - 10:40 AM  	  Christopher Earnhart, PhD
                                             Department of Microbiology and Immunology
			  Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University
			  “Lyme Disease Vaccine Development: An Update on Recent Progress”

10:40 - 10:55 AM                BREAK
                 
10:55 - 11:30 AM                X. Frank Yang, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
  Indiana University School of Medicine
  “Genetic Regulation of Borrelia Genes”

11:30 – 12:05 PM  	  Richard Marconi, PhD
  Professor / Department of Microbiology and Immunology
  Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University
  “Immune Evasion Mechanisms of Pathogenic Spirochetes”

12:05 - 12:20 PM                Discussion (morning Speakers)
	
12:20 – 1:35 PM	  LUNCH BREAK

                                             AGENDA – AFTERNOON
                                             Afternoon Session Facilitator:  Steven Schutzer, MD

1:35 – 2:10 PM                   Amiram Katz, MD
  Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Yale University
                                            “IV Immunoglobulin and Autoimmune Disease in Lyme Peripheral Neuropathy”  
  			 
2:10 – 2:45 PM                   Robert Dantzer, MD
  Professor of Psychoneuroimmunology, Department of Pathology
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 			“From Inflammation to Sickness Behavior: The Role of Cytokines”  

2:45 – 3:20 PM                   Phyllis Faust, MD, PhD
                                             Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology, Department of Pathology
                                             Columbia University Medical Center
   			“Tick-Borne Encephalitis – A Fatal Case”

3:20 – 3:55 PM	                Diane M. Gubernot, MPH 
			  Senior Regulatory Scientist,
			  Div. of Emerging & Transfusion-Transmitted Diseases  OBRR/CBER/FDA
			  “Babesia Infection and the US Donor Blood Supply” 

3:55 – 4:10 PM	                BREAK

4:10 – 4:45 PM 	                Peter Hildenbrand, MD
  Department of Radiology, Lahey Medical Center
  “Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Lyme Disease”	 
 
4:45 – 5:20 PM                   John Costello, MD, MPH
                                             Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
	  “Lyme Carditis in Children” 

5:20 - 5:55 PM                    Patrick McAuliffe, PhD
  Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education
  Teachers College, Graduate School of Education, Columbia University
  “Neuropsychological Deficits in Children and the School System”

5:55 - 6:25 PM	  Dr. John Drulle Memorial Lecture
	  Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH
	  Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University
	  “New Research Findings on Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease”

6:25 - 6:45 PM                    Discussion (afternoon speakers) 

6:45 - 8:30 PM    	  RECEPTION