Tick-Borne Disease Overview
Presented by the Regional-Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital
8:15 am – 4:30 pm
Duke Auditorium
39 Tuckahoe Road, Southampton, NY
This symposium offers participants a comprehensive overview and understanding of the areas that are critical for appropriate diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne disease. Participants will learn what goes into generating evidence-based data to inform clinical decisions.
The target audience consists of physicians, medical residents, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, laboratory technicians and all other interested medical professionals. This symposium is free and includes breakfast and lunch.
Educational Objectives:
- A review of the history of infection-associated chronic conditions.
- A review of the findings from deep phenotyping studies of Post-Infectious Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Long COVID performed at the National Institutes of Health.
- A review of neurologic Lyme disease syndromes, diagnostic workups and principals of treatment for neurologic involvement.
- To inform practicing physicians of neuropsychological tools available to them for the evaluation of neurologic Lyme patients.
- Learn more about ticks and tick-borne viruses and their potential health risks, as well as the pathogen surveillance program with tick infection rates for Suffolk County.
- Learn about the delayed symptoms induced by a novel food allergy to mammalian meat caused by the lone star tick, and an understanding of the diagnostic processes and limitations to Alpha-gal IgE testing.
- Understand the history of the development of laboratory tests for tick-borne diseases and how tests are evolving to improve laboratory diagnosis.
Agenda
| 8:15 – 9 am |
Registration and Breakfast |
| 9 – 9:30 am |
Welcome and Opening StatementsFredric I. Weinbaum, MD |
| 9:30 – 10:15 am |
Deep Phenotyping of Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses at the National Institutes of HealthBrian Walitt, MD, MPH |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am |
Break |
| 10:30 – 11:30 am |
Neurologic Lyme Disease: Update 2024 and Unanswered QuestionsPatricia K. Coyle, MD |
| 11:30 am – 12:15 pm |
Assessing Cognitive Function: Pitfalls and ParametersThomas Preston, PhD, ABPP-CN |
| 12:15 – 1 pm |
Lunch |
| 1 – 1:45 pm |
The Status of Ticks and Emerging Viruses in Suffolk CountyScott R. Campbell, PhD |
| 1:45 – 2:30 pm |
Alpha-gal Meat Allergy after a Lone Star Tick Bite: An Update for Physician CareErin E. McGintee, MD |
| 2:30 – 2:45 pm |
Break |
| 2:45 – 3:30 pm |
Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease and Babesiosis: Past, Present and FutureRaymond J. Dattwyler, MD |
| 3:30 – 4:30 pm |
Open DiscussionFacilitators: Erol Fikrig, MDWaldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Yale University School of Medicine Steven E. Schutzer, MD Jorge L. Benach, PhD |
FOR MORE INFORMATION
karen.wulffraat@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Tel: (631) 726-0452
This medical symposium is made possible by a generous grant from the Island Outreach Foundation.
Stony Brook University/SUNY is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
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