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Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: The State of the Science. Critical Needs and Gaps in Understanding Prevention, Amelioration, and Resolution of Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: The Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes: Workshop Report. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2011.
Critical Needs and Gaps in Understanding Prevention, Amelioration, and Resolution of Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: The Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes: Workshop Report.
Show detailsDAY ONE: OCTOBER 11, 2010
8:00 am | Introduction |
Lonnie King, D.V.M., M.S., M.A. | |
Chair, Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases | |
Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine | |
The Ohio State University | |
8:15 am | A Systems Approach in Understanding Tick-Borne Diseases: People, Animals, and the Ecosystem |
Richard Ostfeld, Ph.D. | |
Disease Ecologist | |
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies | |
8:40 am | Discussion |
Surveillance, Spectrum, and Burden of Tick-Borne Diseases | |
9:00 am | Moderator: Gordon Schutze, M.D. |
Committee Member, Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases | |
Professor and Vice-Chairman for Educational Affairs | |
Department of Pediatrics | |
Vice President, Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative | |
Baylor College of Medicine | |
Texas Children’s Hospital | |
9:05 am | Landscape of Lyme Disease: Current Knowledge, Gaps, and Research Needs |
Gary P. Wormser, M.D. | |
Professor of Medicine | |
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases | |
Vice-Chairman, Department of Medicine | |
New York Medical College | |
9:30 am | Spectrum of Lyme Disease: Approaches to Understanding Multi-factorial and Multidimensional Diseases |
Benjamin J. Luft, M.D. | |
Edmund D. Pellegrino Professor | |
Division of Infectious Diseases | |
State University of New York at Stony Brook | |
9:50 am | Discussion |
10:10 am | Break |
10:25 am | Clinical Manifestations, Co-infection, and Research Needs of Human Babesiosis: The Increasing Health Burden |
Peter Krause, M.D. | |
Senior Research Scientist | |
Lecturer in Epidemiology, Microbial Diseases | |
Yale School of Public Health | |
10:40 am | Insights into Ehrlichia & Anaplasma: Surveillance, Co-infection, and Research Needs |
J. Stephen Dumler, M.D. | |
Professor, Department of Pathology | |
Division of Medical Microbiology | |
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | |
11:00 am | Rickettsia Diseases: Spectrum of Disease, Spatial Clustering, At-Risk Populations, and Research Needs |
Jennifer McQuiston, D.V.M, M.S. | |
National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases | |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
11:20 am | Discussion |
11:40 am | Panel: Disease Surveillance & Co-infection |
J. Stephen Dumler, Peter Krause, Benjamin J. Luft, Jennifer McQuiston, and Gary P. Wormser | |
12:15 pm | Summation: Unifying Knowledge Gaps and Needs |
Gordon Schutze | |
12:25 pm | LUNCH (45 minutes) |
At-Risk Populations and Human Face of Tick-Borne Diseases | |
1:10 pm | Moderator: Lonnie King |
1:15 pm | Panel: Genetic and Acquired Determinants of Host Susceptibility and Vulnerable Populations |
David Weber, M.D. | |
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, School of Medicine | |
Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health | |
University of North Carolina | |
Peter Krause, M.D. | |
Senior Research Scientist | |
Lecturer in Epidemiology Microbial Diseases | |
Yale School of Public Health | |
1:40 pm | Discussion |
1:55 pm | The Human Face of Tick-Borne Disease Infections |
Pamela Weintraub | |
Author, Cure Unknown | |
Features Editor, Discover Magazine | |
2:15 pm | Discussion |
2:55 pm | Break |
Diagnostics and Diagnosis | |
3:05 pm | Moderators: Lynn Gerber, M.D. |
Committee Member, Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases | |
Director, Center for the Study of Chronic Illness and Disability | |
College of Health and Human Services | |
George Mason University | |
David H. Walker, M.D. | |
Committee Member, Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases | |
Professor and Chair | |
Department of Pathology | |
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston | |
3:10 pm | Diagnostics for Lyme Disease: Knowledge Gaps and Needs |
Maria Aguero-Rosenfeld, M.D. | |
Professor of Pathology | |
Director of Clinical Pathology and Microbiology Laboratory | |
Bellevue Hospital Center | |
3:30 pm | Improved Diagnostics & Novel Approaches to Tick-Borne Disease Infections |
Juan Olano, M.D. | |
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology | |
Director, Residency Training Program | |
University of Texas Medical Branch Center | |
3:50 pm | Potential Bio-Marker Applications for Lyme Disease: Aligning Multiple Symptoms with Biological Measures |
Afton Hassett, Psy.D. | |
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Anesthesiology | |
Chronic Pain & Fatigue Research Center | |
University of Michigan Medical School | |
4:10 pm | Discussion |
4:40 pm | Panel: Challenges for Clinicians in Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Illness Manifestations: Knowledge Gaps |
Sam T. Donta, M.D. | |
Infectious Disease Specialist | |
Falmouth Hospital, Massachusetts | |
Brian Fallon, M.D., M.P.H. | |
Director of the Center for Neuroinflammatory Disorders and Biobehavioral Medicine | |
Director of the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center | |
Columbia University Medical Center | |
Richard F. Jacobs, M.D., F.A.A.P. | |
Robert H. Fiser, Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair in Pediatrics | |
Chairman, Department of Pediatrics | |
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | |
President, Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute | |
Matthew Liang, M.D., M.P.H. | |
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management | |
Harvard School of Public Health | |
5:20 pm | Discussion |
5:45 pm | Summation |
Lynn Gerber and David Walker | |
6:00 pm | Adjourn |
DAY TWO: OCTOBER 12, 2010
8:00 am | Introduction |
Lonnie King | |
Emerging Infections, Tick Biology, and Host-Vector Interactions | |
Moderator: Lonnie King | |
8:05 am | Emerging and Re-Emerging Tick-Borne Infections |
Ulrike Munderloh, D.V.M., Ph.D. | |
Associate Professor, Department of Entomology | |
University of Minnesota | |
8:25 am | Natural History of Ticks: Evolution, Adaptation and Biology |
Tom G. Schwan, Ph.D., M.S. | |
Chief, Laboratory of Zoonotic Pathogens | |
Chief, Medical Entomology Section | |
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | |
8:45 am | Wildlife and Domestic Hosts: Their Roles in Maintaining, Amplifying Pathogens, and their Changing Dynamics |
Howard Ginsberg, Ph.D. | |
Research Ecologist | |
United States Geological Survey | |
Professor in Residence, Department of Plant Science | |
University of Rhode Island | |
9:05 am | Discussion |
9:20 am | Comparative Medical Importance of a One Health Approach to Emerging Tick-borne Diseases |
Edward Breitschwerdt, D.V.M. | |
Professor of Internal Medicine | |
College of Veterinary Medicine | |
North Carolina State University | |
Adjunct Professor of Medicine | |
Duke University Medical Center | |
9:40 am | Variation of Borrelia Subspecies: Implications for Human Disease |
James H. Oliver, Jr., Ph.D. | |
Director, Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology | |
Callaway Professor of Biology | |
Georgia Southern University | |
10:00 am | Discussion |
10:20 am | Break |
Pathogenesis | |
10:30 am | Moderator: Guy Palmer, D.V.M., Ph.D. |
Committee Member, Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases | |
Regents Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases | |
The Creighton Chair and Director, School for Global Animal Health | |
Washington State University | |
10:35 am | Pathogenesis of Borrelia burgdorferi Infection and Disease |
Janis Weis, Ph.D. | |
Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology | |
University of Utah | |
10:55 am | Duration of Spirochete Infection Following Antibiotic Treatment in Animals |
Linda Bockenstedt, M.D. | |
Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medicine | |
Department of Rheumatology | |
Yale School of Medicine | |
11:15 am | Discussion |
11:30 am | Antigenic Variation as a Mechanism for Persistent Borrelia Infection |
Steven Norris, Ph.D. | |
Greer Professor | |
Vice Chair for Research | |
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine | |
University of Texas, Houston | |
11:50 am | Sequestration as a Mechanism for Persistent Borrelia Infection |
Stephen Barthold, D.V.M., Ph.D. | |
Distinguished Professor | |
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology | |
Center of Comparative Medicine | |
School of Veterinary Medicine | |
University of California, Davis | |
12:10 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | LUNCH (45 minutes) |
1:15 pm | Pathogenesis of Ehrlichia and Anaplasma Infection and Disease |
Nahed Ismail, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., S.M. (ASCP), D. (ABMM) | |
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology | |
Meharry Medical College | |
1:35 pm | Pathogenesis of Rickettsia Infection and Disease |
Gustavo Valbuena, M.D. | |
Instructor, Department of Pathology | |
University of Texas Medical Branch | |
1:55 pm | Discussion |
2:15 pm | Summation |
Guy Palmer | |
Science, Society, and Disease | |
2:20 pm | Moderator: Lynn Gerber |
2:25 pm | The Social Construction of Lyme Disease |
Robert Aronowitz, M.D. | |
Professor, Department of History and Sociology of Science | |
University of Pennsylvania | |
2:45 pm | Discussion |
2:55 pm | Break |
Prevention | |
3:05 pm | Moderator: Stephen M. Ostroff, M.D. |
Committee Member, Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases | |
Director, Bureau of Epidemiology | |
Pennsylvania Department of Health | |
3:10 pm | Current Vaccines for Tick-Borne Disease Infections and Vaccine Development |
Jere McBride, Ph.D., M.S. | |
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology | |
University of Texas Medical Branch | |
3:30 pm | Developing Opportunities for Future Vaccines |
Wendy Brown, Ph.D., M.P.H. | |
Regents Professor, Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology | |
Washington State University | |
3:50 pm | Discussion |
4:10 pm | Education, Behavior Change, and Other Non- Pharmaceutical Measures Against Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases |
Paul Mead, M.D., M.P.H. | |
Medical Epidemiologist, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases | |
National Center for Infectious Diseases | |
Center for Disease Control and Prevention | |
4:30 pm | Vector- and Host-Targeted Strategies for Prevention of Tick-Borne Diseases |
José M.C. Ribeiro, M.D., Ph.D. | |
Chief, Vector Biology Section | |
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research | |
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | |
4:50 pm | Discussion |
5:10 pm | Summation |
Steve Ostroff | |
Closing | |
5:20 pm | Moderator: Lonnie King |
5:25 pm | Panel: State of Science, General Research Gaps and Opportunities in Tick-Borne Diseases |
John Aucott, M.D. | |
Founder, Lyme Disease Research Foundation of Maryland | |
Physician, Park Medical Associates | |
Linda Bockenstedt, M.D. | |
Harold W. Jockers Professor of Medicine | |
Department of Rheumatology | |
Yale School of Medicine | |
J. Stephen Dumler, M.D. | |
Professor, Department of Pathology | |
Division of Medical Microbiology | |
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine | |
Susan O’Connell, M.D. | |
Consultant Microbiologist | |
Head of the Lyme Borreliosis Unit | |
Southampton General Hospital | |
Gregg P. Skall, J.D. | |
Counsel, National Capital Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Association | |
Member, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC | |
5:55 pm | Discussion |
6:25 pm | Final Summation and Closing Remarks |
Lonnie King | |
6:35 pm | Adjourn |
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