7:00 AM - 6:00 PM: Registration Open

Friday, June 10th, 2016 FUNDAMENTALS 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM: Registration Open 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM: Exhibits Open 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM: Plenary Session Introduction and Welcome: Christine L. Green, MD, Medical Offices of Christine Green, Green Oaks Medical Center, PC

8:15 AM - 9:00 AM: Plenary Session Overview of Tick-Borne Diseases: Samuel M. Shor, MD, FACP, Associate Clinical Professor, George Washington University Health Care Sciences

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM: Plenary Session Case Studies 1: Samuel M. Shor, MD, FACP, Associate Clinical Professor, George Washington University Health Care Sciences

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM: Plenary Session Pathophysiology and Clinical Trial Evidence of Borrelia Burgdorferi: Christine L. Green, MD, Medical Offices of Christine Green, Green Oaks Medical Center, PC

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee and Networking Break With Poster Session in Sirkus

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Plenary Session History, Examination and Testing in the Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis: Christine L. Green, MD, Medical Offices of Christine Green, Green Oaks Medical Center, PC

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch with Speaker Targeting & Treating Lyme Associate Symptoms: Fatigue, Cognitive, Detoxification & Immunity: Rudy Proesmans, MD, Boechout - Vremde

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: Plenary Session Treatment Protocols for Lyme Borreliosis: Samuel M. Shor, MD, FACP, Associate Clinical Professor, George Washington University Health Care Sciences

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Plenary Session Co-Infections Part I: Virginia R. Savely, DNP, TBD MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, Washington Center for Complementary Medicine

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Coffee and Networking Break With Poster Session in Sirkus

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM: Plenary Session Co-Infections Part II: Virginia R. Savely, DNP, TBD MEDICAL ASSOCIATES, Washington Center for Complementary Medicine 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM: Panel Discussion Putting It All Together and Cases Solved: Christine L. Green, MD, Samuel M. Shor, MD, FACP, Associate Clinical Professor, George Washington University Health Care Sciences, and Virginia R. Savely, DNP, TBD Medical Associates, Washington, DC

SCIENTIFIC SESSION, Friday June 10th 2016

7:00 AM - 6:00 PM: Registration Open 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM: Exhibits Open

8:00 AM - 8:10 AM: Plenary Session Introduction and Welcome to the Scientific Session: Moderator: Leo J. Shea III, PhD, Rehabilitation Medicine, Rusk Institute, New York University-Langone Medical Center

8:10 AM - 9:00 AM: Plenary Session Lyme Disease and Autism: Magdelena Cubala-Kusharska, MD, Medical University of Lodz

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM: Plenary Session Relapsing Fever: Jvotsna S. Shah, PhD, IGeneX Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA

9:45 AM - 10:30 AM: Plenary Session The Role of Novel Persister Drug Protocols in Patients with Resistant Lyme Symptoms: Richard I. Horowitz, MD, Hudson Valley Healing Arts Ctr

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Plenary Session Alternative Protocols for Chronic Lyme and Co-Infections: Marjo Valonen, MD, Lääkärikeskus Astris

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch with Speaker Targeting & Treating Lyme Associate Symptoms: Fatigue, Cognitive, Detoxification & Immunity: Rudy Proesmans, MD, Boechout - Vremde

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM: Plenary Session Autophagy: Cure or Curse? : Steven E. Phillips, MD, Internal Medicine, Wilton, CT, USA

1:45 PM - 2:30 PM: Plenary Session Microarray in Borrelia Burgdorferi Diagnostics: Armin J. Schwarzbach, MD, PhD, ArminLabs, Augsburg, Germany

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Plenary Session Pediatric Tick-Borne Disease Cases: Laura Alonso, MD, Diabetes Center of Excellence, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester.

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Plenary Session The Ecology and Geospatial Distribution of Borrelia and/or Ehrlichia : Kurt D. Reed, MD, M.GIS, University of Wisconsin, Madison

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM: Panel Discussion

4:45 PM - 5:30 PM: Open for Selected Abstracts Open for Selected Abstracts

Saturday, June 11th, 2016 7:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Registration Open 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM: Exhibits Open 8:00 AM - 8:10 AM: Plenary Session Introduction: Moderator: Leo J. Shea III, PhD, Rehabilitation Medicine, Rusk Institute, New York University-Langone Medical Center

8:10 AM - 9:00 AM: Plenary Session Theme 1 - Where is Borreliosis? Area, Species, Transmission Time, Co-Infections?: Valerie Obsomer, PhD, Tekentiques.

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM: Plenary Session Theme 2 - Tick-Borne Disease Diagnostics: Two-Tier versus Alternative: Jvotsna S. Shah, PhD, IGeneX Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA

10:40 AM - 11:30 AM: Plenary Session Theme 3 - IDSA Guidelines versus ILADS Guidelines: Christine L. Green, MD, Medical Offices of Christine Green, Green Oaks Medical Center, PC

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Panel Discussion with Morning Faculty 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM: Plenary Session Theme 4 - Antibiotic Treatment: Short Term versus Long Term: Steven E. Phillips, MD, Internal Medicine, Wilton, CT, USA

1:50 PM - 2:40 PM: Plenary Session Theme 5 - Pleomorphic Forms: Leona K. Gilbert, PhD, Associate Professor, Biological and Environmental Science, Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Jyväskylä

3:40 PM - 4:30 PM: Plenary Session Theme 6 - Persistence versus Non-Persistence: Garth D. Ehrlich, PhD, Drexel University College of Medicine

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Panel Discussion with Afternoon Faculty 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM: Farewell Words