The Lyme Disease Association will hold its 22nd annual scientific conference, Lyme & Other Tick-Borne Diseases: Research & Clinical Advances 2023, held virtually via zoom on October 13 & 14, 2023.

Lyme Disease Association Inc. and Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons are joint providers of the the CME* conference. (*CME pending approval)

This conference is designed for medical and health professionals and researchers, but it is also open for registration to the general public.

• Brian Fallon, MD, Columbia University, the Conference Co-Director: Lyme Treatment Trials.
• Monica Embers, PhD and Liz Horn, PhD, MBI: Identifying Pathogens in Post-Mortem Tissue Through the Lyme Disease Biobank Tissue Pipeline;
• Lawrence Afrin, MD: Mast Cell Activation Disease;
• John Aucott, MD: Persistent Symptoms of Lyme Disease;
• Choukri BenMamoun, PhD: Human babesiosis;
• Catherine Brissette, PhD: Lyme Neuroborreliosis;
• Scott P Commins, MD, PhD: Alpha-gal Syndrome, Mast Cells and Tick Bites;
• Natalie Gukasyan, MD: Psychedelics;
• Peter J. Gwynne, PhD: B. Burgdorferi Metabolism;
• Alison Hinckley, PhD: Changes to Surveillance for Lyme Disease — United States, 2022;
• William V. Padula, OD: Peri-papillary Ischemia as a Potential Screening Biomarker for Early Detection of Tick-Borne Infection;
• David Putrino, PT, PhD: Long COVID; Peter Rowe, MD: Managing Orthostatic Intolerance;
• Klemen Strle, PhD: Immunology, Disease Pathogenesis, PTLDS,
• Paul Trouillas, MD, PhD: Severe forms of Late Neuroborreliosis and of Late Tick-Borne Neurological Disease, Complete Remissions Obtained in These Diseases with Long-Term Treatments
• Meghan Catherine Lybecker, PhD: Diagnostics;
• Stephen M. Rich, PhD, Professor of Microbiology: Potential New Lyme Treatment Now Inhibiting Cancer Growth.

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