Conference Faculty

• Robert C. Bransfield, M.D. D.F.A.P.A., is Board Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and certified in Clinical Psychopharmacology by the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology. His primary activity is an office based private practice of psychiatry in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA, with an emphasis upon treatment resistant cases. He is President of ILADS and moderates the Microbes and Mental Illness Internet Discussion Group.
• Sarah Chissell, MBChB MRCOG did her medical training at the University of Bristol. She is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who works for the UK s National Health Service. She is the Clinical Lead for the Fetal Medicine Service provided by the East Kent Hospitals NHS, University NHS Foundation Trust, which has an annual delivery rate of 7300 babies.
• Ann F. Corson, M.D. grew up on Southeastern Pennsylvania, USA. She did her medical training at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine. Dr. Corson is Board Certified in the practice of Family Medicine and has 28 years experience in Emergency Medicine, Occupational Health and Family Practice. Her practice in Chester County, PA, is devoted full time to the treatment of patients suffering from Lyme and associated tickborne diseases. In November, 2009, Turn the Corner Foundation awarded Dr. Corson with their Physicians Training Program Impact Award.
• Richard I. Horowitz, M.D., is a Board Certified Internist and Director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, in Hyde Park, New York, USA. He is a founding member of ILADS, and is President of the International Lyme and Associated Disease Educational Foundation (ILADEF), an organization dedicated to the education of health professionals in the diagnosis and treatment of tickborne disorders. Dr. Horowitz has treated over 11,000 chronic Lyme disease patients in the last 20 years, and has researched and published on the role of coinfections in patients with persistent symptoms. He was awarded the Humanitarial of the Year award by the Turn the Corner Foundation in 2007, for his ongoing work with chronic Lyme disease.
• David C. Martz, M.D., is an Internist-Hematologist-Oncologist living in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Himself a survivor of arrested ALS triggered by Lyme disease, he has treated over 800 Lyme patients, including almost 100 with ALS, and over 30 with MS or Parkinson's disease. Publication preparations of the highly encouraging results are now in progress. Dr. Martz is President-Elect of ILADS.
• Carsten Nicolaus, M.D., Ph.D., is Medical Chief of two treatment centers for tickborne diseases (Borreliose Centrum Augsburg and Blankenburg, Germany). He did his medical training at the University of Regensburg an Technical University of Munich. Dr. Nicolaus is certified as a GP and Family Doctor in Germany since 1990. He has been treating Lyme disease patients for the past 20 years. Another focus of his practice is pain therapy. He is an active member of ILADS and the German Borreliosis Society as well as various other medical associations. He has been appointed Chairman of the ILADS Networking Committee in 2009.
• Christian Perronne, M.D., Ph.d. (guest speaker), is University Professor of Medicine, Senior Consultant in Infectious and Tropical Disease at Raymond Poincaré Hospital, Paris.
• Leo J. Shea, III, Ph.D., Vice-President, ILADS, is Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Shea is one of the most experienced neuropsychologists in the USA in the field of tickborne illnesses. He has evaluated and treated more than 1300 patients affected with the neuropsychological sequelae of Lyme disease. Chairman Emeritus of the National Research Fund for Tickborne Diseases, he also serves on the Grant Review Committee of Turn the Corner Foundation, the National Board of Directors of the Hispanic Neuropsychological Society, and the New York Academy of Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Raphael B. Stricker, M.D., is Past President of ILADS and Medical Director of Union Square Medical Associates in San Francisco, California, USA. He received his medical degree and training in Internal medicine at Columbia University in New York City. He did subspecialty training in Immunology and Immunotherapy at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francsico. He is a recipient of the American Medical Association Award for Physician Excellence and an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Annals of Internal Medicine. He has authored over 200 medical journal articles and abstracts.