Fatiguing Illness: Addressing Low Energy on a Cellular Level
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2021
Time: 9:00 AM EDT-3:00 PM EDT
Location: Virtual
Overview
The CDC estimates that approximately 836,000 to 2.5 million Americans suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and 90 percent of people have not been diagnosed. Fatigue has been one of the top 5 presenting complaints in primary care practices, as well. Join us to explore the pathophysiology behind this common and serious problem as our presenters discuss mitochondrial health, stress hormones, thyroid dysfunction and more. Current evaluation and therapeutic strategies will be shared by our panel of experts.
Schedule
All times are Eastern Daylight Time. Click on session titles to view abstracts and speaker names to view bios.
| TIME | SESSION TITLE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM ET | Welcome Remarks | |
| Chronic Fatigue in Lyme Disease, a Multisystem Complex | Samuel M. Shor, MD | |
| Q&A | ||
| Break | ||
| 10:00 AM ET | Fatigue and Lyme Disease | Robert C. Bransfield, MD |
| Q&A | ||
| Break | ||
| 11:00 AM ET | Monitoring Patients During Chronic Fatigue – An Immune System Perspective | Felix Scholz, PhD |
| Q&A | ||
| Break | ||
| 12:05 PM ET | [Sponsored by Researched Nutritionals] Targeting Mitochondrial Support for Combating Fatigue | Debby Hamilton, MD, MPH |
| Q&A | ||
| Break | ||
| 12:50 PM ET | Where Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Viruses and Tick-Borne Diseases Intersect | Eric Gordon, MD |
| Q&A | ||
| Break | ||
| 2:00 PM ET | Factors that Cause Hypothyroidism that is Not Detected by Thyroid Function Tests | Kent Holtorf, MD |
| Q&A | ||
| 3:00 PM ET | Closing Remarks |
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Pricing
| Through May 7: | May 8-May 15 | |
|---|---|---|
| ILADS Member | $125 | $135 |
| Non-Member | $200 | $220 |
Robert C. Bransfield, MD
Robert C. Bransfield, MD, DLFAPA is a graduate of Rutgers College and the George Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his psychiatric residency training at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Bransfield’s primary activity is an office based private practice of psychiatry. In addition, Dr Bransfield is the Past President of ILADS, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation and the New Jersey Psychiatric Association. He has held a number of administrative positions with organizations involved with health, mental health and community related activities.
Samuel M. Shor, MD
Dr. Shor is an Associate Clinical Professor at George Washington University Health Care Sciences. Dr. Shor developed his long-standing interest in chronic fatigue in the late 1980s. He subsequently cultivated an interest in managing associated conditions that ultimately led to his developing an expertise in Lyme disease. Dr. Shor served as President of ILADS from 2016 to 2018. He continues to serve the public as Chair of the Loudoun County Lyme Commission, while actively pursuing clinical activity in the management of complex patients. He also oversees research and contributes to publishing in the peer reviewed literature.
Debby Hamilton, MD, MPH
Dr. Debby Hamilton, MD, MPH is a Pediatrician with experience in primary care, integrative medicine, research, speaking and writing. Her education includes an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University followed by a medical degree from Chicago Medical School, where she graduated with honors. She is board-certified in Pediatrics, Physician Nutrition, and Integrated/Holistic medicine (AIHM), and has a Master of Science degree in Public Health (MPH) where she did research in nutrition. Dr. Hamilton founded Holistic Pediatric Consulting in Colorado in 2005. Her practice focuses on treating children with chronic diseases such as autism and ADHD and preconception counseling based on her book, Preventing Autism and ADHD: Controlling Risk Factors Before, During & After Pregnancy. Her book led to her collaboration in the writing of The Healthy Child Guide through the Neurological Health Foundation. She has also contributed chapters for Child Decoded: Unraveling Learning and Behavioral Disorders. In 2017, Dr. Hamilton joined Researched Nutritionals, a nutritional supplement company, where she focuses on clinical research, product development and education of healthcare professionals. She continues to see patients through Holistic Pediatric Consulting in Colorado and through telemedicine consults.
Eric Gordon, MD
Eric D. Gordon, MD, President of Gordon Medical Research Center (GMRC), is the founder and owner of Gordon Medical Associates (GMA), a private medical practice in the San Francisco Bay area, specializing in complex chronic illness. In addition to over 40 years in clinical practice , Dr. Gordon is engaged in clinical research. In 2007-2009, he created a series of medical symposia, bringing together leading international medical researchers and cutting-edge clinicians focusing on ME/CFS, Lyme disease, autoimmune diseases and autism. The collaboration of an innovative medical practice with a university research center has been his lifelong dream. Through combining forces with Dr. Robert Naviaux and his research into metabolomics, mitochondrial function, and chronic inflammatory disease he is now bringing this dream to life. In 2016 Dr. Gordon was co-author with Dr. Naviaux on a groundbreaking study, “Metabolic Features of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). Dr. Gordon is a collection site for the Lyme Disease Biobank, providing patient samples to Lyme Disease researchers.
Kent Holtorf, MD
Kent Holtorf, M.D. is the medical director of the Holtorf Medical Group and founder and medical director of the non-profit National Academy of Hypothyroidism (NAH). He is also the founder of Integrative Peptides, dedicated to training physicians about ground-breaking peptide therapies and bringing doctors and patients the highest quality natural bioidentical peptides as supplements with unique delivery systems.
Dr. Holtorf is an internationally known lecturer, author, and innovator in cutting edge research and treatments. He has personally trained numerous physicians across the country in the use of bioidentical hormones, thyroid replacement for complex hypothyroidism syndromes, peptide therapies, immune-modulatory strategies, stem cell, exosome and growth factor treatment, hormone replacement for complex endocrine dysfunction, and innovative treatments of chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, Lyme and other chronic infectious diseases, CIRS, neurodegenerative diseases, and many others.
He is a fellowship lecturer for A4M. He was the Endocrinology Expert for AOL Health and is a guest editor and peer-reviewer for the medical journals Endocrine, Postgraduate Medicine, and Pharmacy Practice. Dr. Holtorf has published many peer-reviewed endocrine reviews on complex, multisystem, poorly understood conditions. He has demonstrated that much of the long-held dogma in endocrinology and infectious disease is inaccurate.
Felix Scholz, PhD
Dr. Scholz, PhD is an experienced scientist that published in the field of innate and adaptive immunity. After years in academic research he developed laboratory test platforms for infectious diseases and allergies. Since 2018 he has been involved in Infectolab Americas to build a platform that provides useful tools for health care practitioners working with complex diseases.
Bryan Rade, ND
Dr. Rade is a graduate of the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and is the current President of the Nova Scotia Association of Naturopathic Doctors. His practice focuses on complex chronic illness, persistent borreliosis and coinfections, mold illness, autism spectrum disorder, PANS/PANDAS, neurological disorders, and chronic pain. To date he has treated over 600 cases of persistent borreliosis and coinfections, and regularly consults on others. Annually, Dr. Rade lectures on Lyme disease, persistent borreliosis and post-Lyme disease syndrome at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. He also trains physicians in ozone therapy via his yearly certification course, and he has been featured as a speaker at the American Academy of Ozonotherapy conference.
FAQ for Fatigue Seminar
Will the videos be available for viewing after the event?
The speaker presentations will be available for viewing for 30 days after the event ends through our online Learning Management System. The videos will not include the Q&A portion of the live event.
Will the PowerPoint presentations be provided to attendees?
PowerPoint presentations will be made available to all registered attendees one week in advance of the seminar through our online Learning Management System.
Is CME credit available for this event?
We are choosing not to give CME for this seminar. This gives us the freedom to discuss specific treatment protocols which would not be eligible content for CME. Please visit our online Learning Management System to see courses available on-demand for CME credit.