Lyme Time By Paula Jackson Jones I
t was a great honor for me to have worked at the 20th Annual Scientific Conference on Lyme & Other Tick- Borne Diseases on September 21 & 22, 2019 in Philadelphia, PA. It was jointly co-hosted by the national Lyme Disease Association (LDA) and Columbia Uni- versity. Working this conference gave me backstage insight and a front row seat to the transformation of medical minds. I saw that because I worked the registra- tion table and had interactions with all the speakers, scholarship winners and attendees all day long. I witnessed the shift in thinking as the conversations evolved during breaks and lunches. When presented with science, many medical providers struggle with what they know and what they’ve always done with what is new. It takes time for all this to settle in and for them to absorb how to implement this new science in their practices and with their patients. To say they were over- whelmed would be putting it mildly.
The conference itself was packed full of scientific presenters. I stress the word scientific because all too often, the Lyme community gets attacked by medical pro- viders who use the term “quackery” and “witch doctors”. I am choosing to share the speaker line up and topics to hopefully put that to rest once and for all.
The conference featured faculty consisting of clinicians and researchers from across the US and other countries. Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH, Columbia Uni- versity College of Physicians & Surgeons, the Conference Director, spoke on Clini- cal Trials: Biologic & Clinical Measures of Change. Other speakers included Charles Chiu, MD PhD: Multi-Omics approaches to diagnosing Lyme & TBD; George Chaconas, PhD: Intravital imaging to study Lyme dissemination; Adrian Baranchuk, MD: Lyme carditis diagnosis & manage- ment; Emir Hodzic, DVM, PhD: Post-treat- ment persistence of Bb in mouse model; Mark Soloski: PhD, LD host immune response; Holly M. Frost, MD: Pitfalls of LD serologic assays; Ingeborg Dziedzic, MD: Lyme disease & the eye; Lance A. Li- otta, MD, PhD: Shed- ding of urinary tick pathogen-specific proteins in patients with tick borne diseases; and Osama Haddad, MD: Mitral
Valve Endocarditis: A Rare Manifestation of Lyme Disease
Speakers represented Columbia Uni-
versity, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Mayo, Harvard Medical School, Uniformed Services University, CDC, UCSF School of Medicine, Queens University Canada, University of Calgary Canada, Northeast- ern University, University of Colorado School of Medicine, UC Davis Veterinary Medicine, Rockefeller University, UCSD School of Medicine, University of Mary- land School of Pharmacy, Old Dominion University, George Mason University,
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