Lyme Disease Center News/Conference

2022 Webinar Conference

Hosted by Binghamton University's Tick-borne Disease Research Center and Southern Tier Lyme Support, Inc.

May 3, 2022

Emcee

Mackay Rippey
Acupuncturist

Speakers 

Dr. Brian Fallon, MD, and Dr.Shannon Delaney, MD, co-investigators on studies of adults and children with Lyme disease

  • Fallon is director of the Center for Neuroinflammatory Disorders and Biobehavioral Medicine and director of the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University
  • Delaney is a neuropsychiatrist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center

"Introducing Columbia University's New Lyme Disease Clinic: The Cohen Center for Health and Recovery from Lyme and Tick-borne Diseases"

Michael Shamoon-Pour
Resesarch Assistant Professor of Molecular and Biological Anthropology at Binghamton University
"The Nature of Ticks in the Southern Tier: What We Now Know and What the Future Could Bring"

Ross Douthat
Columnist, The New York Times
"From the Dreamhouse to the Nightmare: My Lyme Disease Experience"


Previous Center-Sponsored Conferences

2019 Lyme Disease Conference

Hosted by Binghamton University's Tick-borne Disease Research Center and Southern Tier Lyme Support, Inc.

May 4, 2019

Speakers

Bahgat Sammakia
Vice President for Research, Binghamton University
Welcoming remarks

Ralph Garruto
Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Lyme and Other Tick-borne Disease Research Center, Binghamton University
"Tick-borne Disease Research Center"

Jill Auerbach
Hudson Valley Lyme Disease Association
"An Overview of NYS and Federal Advocacy and the Need for Tick Research to Eliminate Disease"

Brian Leydet
Assistant Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
"Knowledge Gaps in Lyme Disease Ecology, Transmission and Control"

Dr. Bettina Wagner, DVM

Professor and Chair, Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine
"Lyme Disease, Treatment and Vaccination in Man's Best Friends"

Robert Giguere
Director of Sales, IGeneX, Inc.
"Testing Techniques for Tick-borne Pathogens"

Hilary Thing
Certified Herbalist
"Hidden Advantages of Natural Lyme Treatment"

Dr. Heidi Puc, MD
Integrative Medicine of Central New York, Chittenango, N.Y.
"Lyme and Co-infectors: Causal Role in Cancer"

Dr. Amy Lazzarini, MD
Integrative Medicine of Central New York, Chittenango, N.Y.
"Impact of Lyme and Co-infections on the Gut"

Dr. Kenneth Liegner, MD
Kenneth Liegner, MD and Associates; Internal Medicine, Pawling, N.Y.
"The Disease that Doesn't Exist - Chronic Lyme Disease"


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