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13th International Conference on Lyme Disease
and Other Tick-Borne Disorders
Clinical Management & Research Update
Place
Hartford Marriott, Farmington, CT 800-228-9290
$ 79 single or double occupancy. Rate applies 3/23 - 3/27 for those who
want a side
trip to the Lyme, CT area.
Reserve your room now, as the whole hotel is rapidly sellin-out! Rooms may be
gone by the end of February!
Travel: Huntington Hay Travel 800-783-9783
Registration includes
Attendance at scientific sessions, book of proceedings, lunch and breaks on
both days, and receptions Friday (3/23) and Saturday (3/24) night.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Coordinator and Basic Sciences: James Miller, PhD UCLA School of
Medicine
Clinical: Sam Donta, MD Boston University School of Medicine
Brian Fallon, MD Columbia University College of Physicians
and Surgeons
Entomology: Ed Bosler, PhD Stonybrook School of Medicine
Epidemiology: Julie Rawlings, MPH Texas Department of Health
Posters: Charles Pavia, PhD New York Medical College
Ronald Schell, PhD University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
PROGRAM AGENDA
Saturday, March 25, 2000 (8am -5:15pm)
7:00 - 9:00 Registration
· Keynote Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut
· West Nile virus: Epicenter to epidemic and expectations in 2000 McNamara
· West Nile virus in Connecticut Anderson
· Overview of human ehrlichioses and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the US
Padduck
· Coinfections Magnorelli
· Lyme disease in the South Oliver
· Analysis of Southern Borrelia James
· Babesiosis Krause
· Preliminary in vitro and in vivo findings of hyperbaric oxygen treatment in
experimental Borrelia burgdorferi infection Pavia
· Immunity against host-adapted Bb in the rabbit Miller
· Immunologic aspects of Vlse, a Bb antigenic variation protein Norris
· An Immunodominant peptide of Bb Vlse: Role in diagnosis and pathogenesis
Philipp
· Antibiotic treatment of Lyme borreliosis: A review of results with dogs
Staubinger
· A Borrelia burgdorferi repetitive antigen that confers protection against
experimental Lyme disease Skare
· Use of borreliacidal assay in the serodiagnosis of Lyme disease Schell
· Lyme neuroborreliosis: Role of PCR and culture in the diagnosis and in the
confirmation of relapse after antibiotic treatment Oski
· Laboratory testing panel Tilton, Shah, Schell, Golightly, Mordechai
Sunday, March 26, 2000 (8am - 5pm)
· Keynote Willy Burgdorfer, PhD, MD
· Characterization of an immune evasion system in Lyme disease spirochetes
Marconi
· Environmental regulation of gene expression in Bb Samuels
· Matrix metalloproteinases in Lyme disease pathogenesis Perides
· Interleukin-10 regulation during acute Lyme arthritis in dogs Staubinger
· T-cell response Marques
· Protection against tick-transmitted LD in dogs vaccinated with a
multiantigenic vaccine Frey
· OspA vaccine update, including serologic results and range of EM rashes
Parenti
· Atypical EM and acute Lyme disease Masters
· Neurologic Lyme disease in children and adolescents Pietrucha
· Cognitive deficits in children with chronic Lyme and the public
health/educational implications Rissenberg
· Neurologic Lyme disease in adults Coyle
· Neuroimaging in neuropsychiatric Lyme disease: Uses, abuses, and the future
Fallon
· Pharmacologic properties of antibiotics and their relevence to Lyme disease
Donta
· Treatment Roundtable Fein, Leigner, Donta, Pietrucha, Burrascano
FACULTY
John Anderson, PhD Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Edward M. Bosler, PhD SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine
Willy Burgdorfer, PhD, MD National Institutes of Health
Joseph Burrascano, MD Southhampton Hospital
Patricia Coyle, MD SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine
Sam Donta, MD Boston University School of Medicine
Brian Fallon, MD Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Lesley Fein, MD St. Barnabus & Mountainside Hospitals
Alan Frey, PhD New York University School of Medicine
Mark Golightly, MD Stonybrook School of Medicine
Angela James, PhD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Peter Krause, MD University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Kenneth Liegner, MD Westchester Medical Center
Louis Magnorelli, PhD Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Richard Marconi, PhD Medical College of Virginia
Edwin Masters, MD Regional Primary Care Physicians
Adrianna Marques, MD National Institutes of Health
Tracey McNamara, DVM National Wildlife Conservation / Bronx Zoo
James Miller, PhD UCLA School of Medicine
Eli Mordechai, PhD Medical Diagnostic Laboratories
Steve Norris, PhD University of Texas Medical School
Jim Oliver, PhD Georgia Southern University
Jarmo Oksi, MD, PhD Turku University Central Hospital, Department of Medicine,
Finland
Christopher Padduck, MD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dennis Parenti, MD SmithKline Beecham Biologicals
Charles Pavia, PhD NYMedical College School of Medicine, NYCOM Microbiology
and Immunodiagnostic Laboratory of NYIT
George Perides, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Mario Philipp, PhD Tulane University School of Medicine
Dorothy Pietrucha, MD Cornell/NYHospital, Jersey Shore Medical Center
Marian Rissenberg, MD Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Scott Samuels, PhD University of Montana School of Medicine
Rheinhard Staubinger, DVM, PhD Cornell University School of Veterinary
Medicine
Ronald Schell, PhD University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Jyotsna Shah, PhD Igenex Laboratories
Richard Skare, PhD Texas A & M University Health Science Center
Richard Tilton, PhD BBI Clinicial Laboratories
TARGET AUDIENCE
This conference is designed for clinical professionals (including but not
limited to Primary Care Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants,
Public Health Officers, Researchers and Veterinarians) and for other health
professionals (medical directors, risk managers) who wish to enhance their
knowledge of Lyme disease and other tick-borne disorders.
REGISTRATION
Written notice of cancellation must be received by 2/15/2000 for a refund.
Fees
__ $250 by February 15
__ $275 February 15 to March 21
__ $325 March 22 to on-site
__ $160 Poster Presenters - contact us for forms, Graduate Students -
w/University validation letter
__ $60 Reception Only
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