13th International Conference on Lyme Disease
and Other Tick-Borne Disorders
Clinical Management &  Research Update

Place
Hartford Marriott, Farmington, CT   800-228-9290
$ 79 single or double occupancy.  Rate applies 3/23 - 3/27 for those who
want a side trip to the Lyme, CT area.

Reserve your room now, as the whole hotel is rapidly
sellin-out!  Rooms may be gone by the end of February!
Travel
Huntington Hay Travel  800-783-9783

Registration includes
Attendance at scientific sessions, book of proceedings, lunch and breaks
on
both days, and receptions Friday (3/23) and Saturday (3/24) night.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Program Coordinator and Basic Sciences:  James Miller, PhD  
UCLA School of Medicine
Clinical:  Sam Donta, MD  Boston University School of Medicine
           Brian Fallon, MD  Columbia University College of Physicians
           and Surgeons
Entomology:  Ed Bosler, PhD  Stonybrook School of Medicine
Epidemiology:  Julie Rawlings, MPH  Texas Department of Health
Posters:  Charles Pavia, PhD  New York Medical College
                Ronald Schell, PhD  University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine

PROGRAM  AGENDA

 Saturday, March 25, 2000 (8am -5:15pm)

7:00 - 9:00 Registration

Keynote   Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General of Connecticut
West Nile virus: Epicenter to epidemic and expectations in 2000
McNamara
West Nile virus in Connecticut  Anderson
Overview of human ehrlichioses and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the
US
     Padduck
Coinfections  Magnorelli
Lyme disease in the South  Oliver
Analysis of Southern Borrelia  James
Babesiosis  Krause
Preliminary in vitro and in vivo findings of hyperbaric oxygen
treatment in
     experimental Borrelia burgdorferi infection  Pavia
Immunity against host-adapted Bb in the rabbit  Miller
Immunologic aspects of Vlse, a Bb antigenic variation protein  Norris
An Immuno{*filter*} peptide of Bb Vlse: Role in diagnosis and
pathogenesis
     Philipp
Antibiotic treatment of Lyme borreliosis: A review of results with
dogs
     Staubinger
A Borrelia burgdorferi repetitive antigen that confers protection
against
     experimental Lyme disease  Skare
Use of borreliacidal assay in the serodiagnosis of Lyme disease
Schell
Lyme neuroborreliosis: Role of PCR and culture in the diagnosis and in
the
     confirmation of relapse after antibiotic treatment  Oski
Laboratory testing panel  Tilton, Shah, Schell, Golightly, Mordechai

               Sunday, March 26, 2000   (8am - 5pm)
Keynote Willy Burgdorfer, PhD, MD
Characterization of an immune evasion system in Lyme disease
spirochetes
      Marconi
Environmental regulation of gene expression in Bb  Samuels
Matrix metalloproteinases in Lyme disease pathogenesis  Perides
Interleukin-10 regulation during acute Lyme arthritis in dogs
Staubinger
T-cell response  Marques
Protection against tick-transmitted LD in dogs vaccinated with a
      multiantigenic vaccine  Frey
OspA vaccine update, including serologic results and range of EM
rashes
      Parenti
Atypical EM and acute Lyme disease  Masters
Neurologic Lyme disease in children and adolescents  Pietrucha
Cognitive deficits in children with chronic Lyme and the public
       health/educational implications  Rissenberg
Neurologic Lyme disease in {*filter*}s  Coyle
Neuroimaging in neuropsychiatric Lyme disease: Uses, abuses, and the
future
       Fallon
Pharmacologic properties of antibiotics and their relevence to Lyme
disease
       Donta
Treatment Roundtable  Fein, Leigner, Donta, Pietrucha, Burrascano

FACULTY
John Anderson, PhD  Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Edward M. Bosler, PhD SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine
Willy Burgdorfer, PhD, MD  National Institutes of Health
Joseph Burrascano, MD  Southhampton Hospital
Patricia Coyle, MD  SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine
Sam Donta, MD  Boston University School of Medicine
Brian Fallon, MD  Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Lesley Fein, MD  St. Barnabus & Mountainside Hospitals
Alan Frey, PhD  New York University School of Medicine
Mark Golightly, MD  Stonybrook School of Medicine
Angela James, PhD  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Peter Krause, MD  University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Kenneth Liegner, MD  Westchester Medical Center
Louis Magnorelli, PhD  Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Richard Marconi, PhD  Medical College of {*filter*}ia
Edwin Masters, MD  Regional Primary Care Physicians
Adrianna Marques, MD  National Institutes of Health
Tracey McNamara, DVM  National Wildlife Conservation / Bronx Zoo
James Miller, PhD  UCLA School of Medicine
Eli Mordechai, PhD  Medical Diagnostic Laboratories
Steve Norris, PhD  University of Texas Medical School
Jim  Oliver, PhD  Georgia Southern University
Jarmo Oksi, MD, PhD Turku University Central Hospital, Department of
Medicine, Finland
Christopher Padduck, MD  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dennis Parenti, MD  SmithKline Beecham Biologicals
Charles Pavia, PhD  NYMedical College School of Medicine, NYCOM
Microbiology
and Immunodiagnostic Laboratory of NYIT
George Perides, MD  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Mario Philipp, PhD  Tulane University School of Medicine
Dorothy Pietrucha, MD Cornell/NYHospital, Jersey Shore Medical Center
Marian Rissenberg, MD  Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Scott Samuels, PhD  University of Montana School of Medicine
Rheinhard Staubinger, DVM, PhD  Cornell University School of Veterinary
    Medicine
Ronald Schell, PhD  University of Wisconsin School of Medicine
Jyotsna Shah, PhD  Igenex Laboratories
Richard Skare, PhD Texas A & M University Health Science Center
Richard Tilton, PhD  BBI Clinicial Laboratories

TARGET AUDIENCE
This conference is designed for clinical professionals (including but
not
limited to Primary Care Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician
Assistants, Public Health Officers, Researchers and Veterinarians) and
for
other health professionals (medical directors, risk managers) who wish
to
enhance their knowledge of Lyme disease and other tick-borne disorders.

REGISTRATION
Written notice of cancellation must be received by 2/15/2000 for a
refund.

Fees
__ $250  by February 15
__  $275  February 15 to March 21
__  $325  March 22 to on-site
__  $160  Poster Presenters - contact us for forms, Graduate Students  -
           w/University validation letter
__  $60   Reception Only

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