Annual Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Conference

[LymeEnigma]

Sponsored by Columbia U and the LDA:

The national annual Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Conference sponsored by Columbia University and the Lyme Disease Association will be held in Boston on Friday, October 26, 2007. Treatment debate to be featured. Scientists from throughout the United States, as well as from Finland and Austria, will speak. Topics include:

* Genomics (Claire Fraser, U of Maryland),
* Tick Diversity (James Oliver, Georgia Southern University),
* Intracellular Sequestration (Jillian Livengood, CDC),
* Bb Viability after Antibiotics (Hetta Yrjanainen, U of Turku),
* Diagnostics Using Focus Floating Microscopy (Klaus Eisendle, Innsbruck Medical University),
* sensitivity and Specificity of Blood Tests in Chronic Lyme Disease (Brian Fallon, Columbia University),
* Immunologic Findings in Chronic Lyme Disease (Armin Aladeini, Cornell University),
* An Update on current Lyme Research (Steven Schutzer, UMDNJ),
* A New Conceptualization of Brain Imaging Findings in Fibromyalgia (Daniel Clauw, Univ of Michigan),
* Abnormal Brain Circuitry in Chronic Lyme Disease and Relationship to C6 Intrathecal Index (James Moeller, Columbia University),
* A case of Anaplasmosis after kidney transplant (Maha Assi, Mayo Clinic),
* An Update on Another Tick Borne Disease -Tularemia (Katherine Feldman, U of Maryland), and
* An Update on How Antibiotics Work in Lyme Disease (Benjamin Luft, SUNY at Stony Brook).

The conference will close in a point-counterpoint style that addresses the controversies in the treatment of chronic Lyme disease, including presentations by Ray Stricker (ILADS) and Paul Auwaerter (IDSA, Johns Hopkins). To register and for more information, go to lymediseaseassociation.org/Conference2007.html

www.columbia-lyme.org/flatp/breaknewsfull.html#conference

[cobweb2]

Interesting that there's a conference for a disease that's so easy to cure with just 10 to 21 days antibiotic.

[itsybitsyone]

That was last year.

This year its in California I think.

[LymeEnigma]

I guess Columbia has not updated their site for a while....