Fw: NY Lyme Forum Streaming Live May 21 also archived for viewing

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This is finishing this afternoon from NY.....put on by Cong. Gibson NY. (Website for forum info www.lymenext.org.) It is being live-streamed at www.livestream.com\skidmorevideo

It is also being archived for awhile, so you can click on the Mon., May 21 Video and see the whole thing from the beginning.

Schedule of Presentations

Schedule

Times are approximate

9:00 Morning Session Opens T. Fisk, Co-Chair Organizing Committee

Welcome to LymeNEXT Congressman Gibson, 20th Congressional District, NY

9:15 Keynote Address

Into the Woods: The Patient Journey through Lyme Disease

Pamela Weintraub, Executive Editor, Discover Magazine and author of Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic

10:00 The Scope and Economic Burden of Lyme Disease

An Epidemic of Lyme Disease? Holly Ahern

The Economic Impact and Burden of Lyme Disease Lorraine

11:00 Break

11:15 A Diagnosis that Fits the Disease - Multiple Chronic Infectious Disease Syndrome (MCIDS) I. Horowitz, MD

Noon Lunch Break

An

optional one-price ($10) dining option is available for Forum attendees. Lunch will be held in the Murray-Aikins Dining Hall on the Skidmore Campus. See program for menu.

1:20 Afternoon Session Opens T. Fisk, Co-Chair Organizing Committee

1:30 Protecting Physicians who Treat Lyme Disease Cameron, MD

2:00 Preventing Transfusion-Transmitted Babesiosis Leiby, PhD

2:30 Break

2:45 New Methods for Lyme and TBD Detection Ahmed Kilani, PhD

3:15 A “Manhattan Project†for Lyme Disease Liegner, MD

3:45 Closing Remarks Congressman Gibson