7:00 pm Donor Dinner — ILADS honors its donors at the $1000 level or more.
8:10-8:15am Welcome Robert C. Bransfield, MD, DLPAPA, President ILADS
8:15-8:30am Canadian/USA Alliance Bernard D. Raxlen, MD, Founding member of ILADS
8:30-9:00am Songbirds Disperse Lyme Disease Vector Ticks Across Canada — John D. Scott, BSc, MSc
9:00-9:30am Understanding Symptoms Related to Visual Dysfunction following a Tick-Borne Event — William V. Padula, OD, DPNAP, FAAO, FNORA
9:30am-10:00am Live imaging studies on vascular dissemination of the Lyme spirochete — George Chaconas, PhD
10:00-10:30am Networking Break
10:30-11:15am Borrelia Infections- diagnosis and treatment — Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr., MD
11:15-12:00pm Management of Ixodes scapularis bites. — Elizabeth Maloney, MD
12:00-1:30pm Garth Nicolson, PhD, — Luncheon speaker sponsored by Researched Nutritionals for all Registrants — New Research on Lipid Replacement Therapy to improve mitochondrial and membrane function in complex infections.
1:30pm-2:15pm Co-Infections — Christine Green, MD
2:15pm-3:00pm Babesiosis: Updates on Diagnosis and Treatment 2011, — Richard I. Horowitz, MD
3:00pm-3:30pm Networking Break
3:30pm-4:15pm Pregnancy and Tick-borne Diseases: Gestational Lyme — Charles Ray Jones, MD
4:15pm-5:00pm Ask the Expert — Joseph Jemsek, MD and Bernard Raxlen, MD
5:00pm ILADS Members only Meeting,
5:00pm Non-Member Professionals — Breakout C — Post Test and Discussion (Quebec Room)
6:00pm-7:30pm Meet and Greet Sponsored by CanLyme
8:30am-9:00am Cutaneous Mimics, Don’t Be Fooled — Marcus Conant, MD
9:00am-9:15am The Qualitative and Quantitative Implications of an Inadequate Diagnostic Test for Lyme Disease Patients — Sarah Buchman
9:15am-9:30am Lyme disease and PANDAS — Hanna Rhee, MD
9:30am-10:00am The Updated ILADS Clinical Guidelines — Daniel J. Cameron, MD
10:00am-10:30am Networking Break
10:30am-11:15am Overview of Integrative Patient Care in Tick-Borne Diseases — Steven Bock, MD
11:15am-12:00pm Environmental Illness, Mold Exposure in Patients with Persistent Lyme — Lisa L. Nagy, MD
12:00pm-1:30pm Luncheon for all Registrants
1:30pm-2:15pm Food allergy, intolerance and candida — Morton Teich, MD
2:15pm-3:00pm New Ideas in Pain Management — Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD
3:00pm-3:30pm Networking Break
3:30pm-4:15pm The Role of Naturopathy and Herbs in Treatment of Tick-Borne Illness — Susan McCamish, ND
4:15pm-5:00pm Tick-borne Disease: Cases with a Functional Medicine Approach — Jeffrey Wulfman, MD
5:00pm-5:30pm Ask the experts panel
5:30pm-7:00pm Reception with the Exhibitors — Sponsored by IGeneX
8:30am-9:00am Improved detection of active Lyme in US & Europe Elizabeth — Valentine-Thon, PhD
9:00am-9:30am Killing Borrelia burgdorferi - Is it possible? — John Drulle, MD Memorial Lectureship — Eva Sapi, PhD
9:30am-10:00am Evidence Based Medicine: Evidence, Evidence Gaps and the Role of Stakeholders — Lorraine Johnson, JD, MBA
10:00am-10:30am Networking Break
10:30am-12pm Ask the Experts Panel — Robert Bransfield, MD; Daniel Cameron, MD; Joseph Jemsek, MD; Steven Bock, MD
10:30am-3:00pm Moderator: Raphael B. Stricker, MD
10:30am-11:15 Improved PCR Detection of Tick-Borne Pathogens Following Pre-Enrichment for Ten Days — Ahmed Kilani, PhD, Clongen Laboratory
11:15-12:00pm Diagnosing Borrelia infection: There's more to an immune response than antibodies alone — Sirid-Aimee Kellerman, PhD, Neuroscience Laboratory
Lunch 12:00pm-1:30pm all registrants
1:30pm-2:15pm Difficulties in the Laboratory Diagnosis of tick-borne and symptom-related chronic infections — Armin Schwarzbach, MD, PhD Infecto Laboratory
2:15-3:00pm Vector Transmitted Infections: A Canadian Physicians' Perspective — C. Benjamin Boucher, BscMD
3:00pm-3:30pm Networking break
3:30pm-5:00pm Current advocacy issues and priorities. A Working group. — Leo J. Shea, III, PhD moderator
10:30am-11:15am The Role of the Mental Health Professional in Tick-Borne Diseases: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment — Judith G. Leventhal, PhD and Sheila Statlender, PhD
11:15am-12:00pm Safety and Efficacy of Prolonged Intravenous Antibiotic Therapy for Neurologic Lyme Disease — Raphael B. Stricker, MD
12:00pm-1:30pm Luncheon break all registrants
1:30pm-2:15pm The Dangers of Self Medication in Adolescents and Young Adults with Lyme Disease — Leo J. Shea, III, PhD
2:15pm-3:00pm Can infections and immune reactions to them cause violent behavior? — Robert C. Bransfield, MD
3:00pm-3:30pm Networking Break
3:30pm-5:00pm Ask the Experts — Bransfield ,Leventhal, Shea, Statlender
10:30am-5:00pm Research, Writing and Publishing
How to go from written document to publication: Cheryl Koopman, PhD
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome paper discussion: Samuel Shor, MD
12:00pm-1:30pm Luncheon Break
1:30pm-2:00pm Prevalence of positive serology for tick-borne pathogens in Western Canadian patients with Autoimmune & Immune mediated disease (2005-2010). — Greg Blaney, MD
2:00pm-2:30pm Canadian Perspective on Lyme Borreliosis — Marianne Middelveen, MSc, Mdes
2:30pm-3:00pm Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Ehrlichia canis, and Dirofilaria immitis among dogs in Canada — Tom O'Connor, Ph.D., IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
3:00pm-3:30pm Networking Break
3:30pm-4:15pm Ask the Experts
4:15pm-5:00pm Ask the Experts
10:30-11:15am Barriers, Roadblocks and Support: The Canadian Experience as a Lyme patient. — Douglas Wilson, MD, CCFP, FCFP
11:15-12:00pm Challenges for the Treating Physician in Canada-The Good Bad and Ugly. — Ernie Murakami, MD
12:00pm-1:30pm Luncheon Break
1:30pm-3:00pm Canadian Case Presentations — Jennifer Armstrong, MD; Maureen McShane, MD; Aparna Taylor, ND
3:00pm-3:30pm Networking Break
3:30pm-4:00 pm Morgellons Disease-the latest Lyme co- infection? — Ginger Savely, DNP, FNP
4:00-4:30pm Advanced Techniques in Physical Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis Complex — Joseph Jemsek, MD
4:30-5:00pm Defensive Medicine — Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr. MD
3:30pm-4:15pm Ask the Experts — Shor, Jemsek, Burrascano, Corson
4:15pm-5:00pm Panel of Experts — Horowitz, Raxlen, Green, Jones
10:30am-12:00pm Forum for Discussion — Ask the Experts
12:00pm-1:30pm Luncheon for all registrants
1:30pm-3:00pm Forum for Discussion — Ask the Experts
3:00pm -3:30pm Networking Break
3:30pm-5:00pm Forum for Discussion — Ask the Experts
5pm Non-Member Professionals Post Test and Discussion
10:30am-12:00pm Ask the Expert Case Presentations
12:00pm-1:30pm Luncheon break all registrants
1:30pm-3pm Case Presentations
3:00pm-3:30pm Networking Break
Case Presentations
ILADS Open Forum