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1994
LDF Conference Agenda -- Stamford, CT
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LYME
DISEASE: 1994 STATE OF THE ART
with an emphasis on NEUROLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS
Friday,
April 22, 1994
- WELCOME
Cochairs:
Martina H. Ziska, MD
Medical Director, Lyme Disease Foundation
- Andrew
D. McBride, MD Director of Health, Stamford
GENERAL
SESSION
Chair
Martina H. Ziska, MD
Medical Director
Lyme Disease Foundation
- Lyme
Borreliosis: Addressing the Issues
Martina H. Ziska, MD
Medical Director
Lyme Disease Foundation
- Changing
Ecology of Ticks in the United States
James H. Oliver, PhD
Georgia Southern University
- Lyme
Borreliosis in the South Central United States
Edwin Masters, MD
St. Francis Hospital
- Overview
of Lyme Borreliosis Classical Clinical Manifestations
Rudolf Scrimenti, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
- Robert
Lesser, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
POSTER
SESSION
Chair:
James Katzel, MD
Ukiah Medical Center
NEUROBORRELIOSIS
SESSION
Chair:
Patricia Coyle, MD
SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine
- Neuroborreliosis:
Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis
Patricia Coyle, MD
SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine
- Neurotropism
of Borrelia Species: The Ghost in the Closet Willy Burgdorfer,
PhD, MD (Hon)
Rocky Mountain Laboratories
National Institutes of Health
- Pathogenesis
of Neuroborreliosis
Juan Garcia-Monco, MD
Galdakaoko Hospital, Spain
- Metabolism
of the Putative Neurotoxin Quinolinic Acid in Lyme Borreliosis
Melvyn P. Heyes, PhD
National Institute of Mental Health
NEUROPSYCHIATRY
SESSION
Chair:
Brian Fallon, MD
Columbia University
- Lyme
Borreliosis: Review of Neuropsychiatric Features
Brian Fallon, MD
Columbia University
- Neuropsychiatric
Lyme Borreliosis and Syphilis: Is there a Parallel?
Martin M. Schinedling, PhD
St. Mary's Medical Center
- Depression
and Psychopharmacology of Lyme Borreliosis
Francisco Femandez, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
- Characteristics
of Cognitive Deficit in Lyme Borreliosis
Marian Rissenberg, PhD
Neuropsychologist
- Cognitive
and Linguistic Deficit in Lyme Borreliosis
Nancy Long, PhD
Speech and Language Pathologist
BREAK-OUT
- Mini-symposium
on Scientific Writing - For health care professionals only!
- Community
Education and the Media
RECEPTION
Saturday,
April 23, 1994
TRACK
A - EPIDEMIOLOGY and PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES
Chair:
Julie Rawlings, MPH
Texas Department of Health
- Tick-borne
Diseases in North America
Julie Rawlings, MPH
Texas Department of Health
- Relapsing
Fever in Canadians Visiting USA and India
S. N. Banerjee, PhD
University of British Columbia
- The
Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in the Lyme Connecticut area
Matthew L. Cartter, MD
Connecticut State Department of Public Health
- The
Epidemiology of Lyme Disease in Delaware
David E. Wolfe, MPH
Delaware Division of Public Health
TRACK
B - MICROBIOLOGY AND TREATMENT IMPLICATION
Chair:
Claude F. Garon, PhD
Rocky Mountain Laboratories
National Institutes of Health
- DNA
Replication in Borrelia burgdorferi: A Precision Mechanism
- a Potentially Attractive Target for New Antimicrobial Agents
Claude F. Garon, PhD
National Institutes of Health
Rocky Mountain Laboratories
- Kinetics
of Killing by and Frequency of Resistance to an Antimicrobial
Agent
Scott Samuels, PhD
Rocky Mountain Laboratories
National Institutes of Health
- Disruption
of Cell Surface Binding by Human Transferrin to Borrelia burgdorferi
by Antibodies Targeted at an Iron Stress-induced Outer
Sheath Protein
David Dorward, PhD
Rocky Mountain Laboratories
National Institutes of Health
TRACK
C - DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING
Chair:
Richard C. Tilton, PhD
North American Laboratory Group
- Diagnosis
of Lyme Borreliosis in Dairy Cattle
Sandra Bushmich, DVM
University of Connecticut
- Detection
of Borrelia burgdorferi in Mouse Urine
Louis Magnarelli, PhD
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
- Urine
PCR from Patients with Erythema Migrans
Elisabeth Aberer, MD
University of Vienna School of Medicine, Austria
- Comparison
of Serological and Molecular Diagnostic Tests for Lyme Disease
on a Nonselected Patient Population
Richard C. Tilton, PhD
North American Laboratory Group
- Reference
and Research of Lyme Borreliosis in the Czech Republic
Dagmar Hulinska, PhD
WHO Reference Lab, Prague, Czech republic
- TRACK
D - PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY
Chair:
Charles Pavia, PhD
New York Medical Center
- Spectrum
of Protective Immunity against Borrelia burgdorferi
Charles Pavia, PhD
New York Medical Center
- Immune
Response of Laboratory Mice to Borrelia burgdorferi OspA
and Its Relationship to Protective Immunity
Stephen Barthold, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine
- Protective
Immunization against Borrelia burgdorferi in Immunocompetent
Mice Characterized by T Cell Response
Alan B. Frey, PhD
New York University
- Vaccination
Induced Destructive Lyme Arthritis in Hamsters
Ronald Shell, PhD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
- Human
Vaccine Efficacy Trials
Debra Adler-Klein, MD
Infectious Disease Associates Columbia University, Stamford Hospital
- Michael
F. Parry, MD
Columbia University, Stamford Hospital
IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS
SESSION
Chair:
Steven Schutzer, MD
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
- A
Rabbit Model for Erythema Migrans and Early Dissemination of
Borrelia burgdorferi
James Miller, MD, PhD
UCLA School of Medicine
- Late
Infection in Rhesus Monkey Model
Mario Philipp, PhD
Tulane University Primate Research Institute
- Immune
Modulating Activity Mediated by Borrelia burgdorferi
J. W. Chiao, MD
New York Medical College
- The
Role of Cerebrospinal Fluid Research Tests in Neuroborreliosis
Patricia Coyle, MD
SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine
CLINICAL
SESSION
Chair:
Martina Ziska, MD
- Clinical
Diagnostic Crossroads: Locating the Bug
Kornelia Keszler, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
- Borrelial
Etiology of Scleroderma
- Elisabeth
Aberer, MD
University of Vienna, Austria
- Overview
of Gestational Lyme Borreliosis
Alan B. MacDonald, MD
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
- Lactation
and Lyme Borreliosis
Derrick DeSilva, MD
Raritan Bay Medical Center
- Similarities
of Lyme Borreliosis in the Elderly
Daniel Cameron, MD
Northern Westchester Hospital Center
- Geriatric
Lyme Borreliosis: Is there a Difference?
Philip Paparone, DO
Atlantic City Medical Center
- Overview
of Lyme Borreliosis Treatment
Sam T. Donta, MD
Boston University Hospital
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