Day 1, Thursday, September 18, 2025 – Tentative
Registration, coffee and refreshments, Pre-Survey
Coffee, tea, water provided
Welcome to the Summit
- Dan Cummings. NewsChannel 9
Message from NYS Commissioner
Jim McDonald, MD, MPH, NYS Commissioner of Health
CNY Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Alliance: Who We Are & What We Do
- Royale Scuderi. CNY Lyme & Tick-Borne Disease Alliance
Public Health Panel
- Kathryn Anderson, MD, PhD, CTropMed. Onondaga County Health Department
- Saravanan Thangamani, PhD. SUNY Center for Vector-Borne Diseases
- Jennifer White, MPH. New York State Department of Health
Break
Advances in brain imaging and brain-based treatments of post-treatment Lyme disease
- John Aucott, MD. Johns Hopkins (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
From Bench to Bedside – the Lyme & Tick-borne Diseases Clinical Trials Network Research Studies
- Brian Fallon, MD, MPH. New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Irving Medical Center (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
Lunch at Biotech Accelerator
Lunch provided
Tiny Ticks, Tall Tales — Tick Myths Busted!
- Brian Leydet, PhD, MPH. SUNY - College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
Lyme Clinic Overview, Status and Future Plans
- Kris Paolino, MD, MTM&H. SUNY Upstate Medical University (Presentation 10 minutes, Q&A 5 minutes)
- Michal Tal, PhD. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
Alpha-gal syndrome: Epidemiologic perspective and clinical frontiers, including the role of mast cells and omalizumab
- Eleanor Saunders, MD, MPH. University of North Carolina (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
Break and relocate to the Center for Vector-Borne Diseases and Reception at the SUNY Institute for Human Performance
Tour of the Upstate Tick Testing Laboratory and reception at SUNY Center for Vector-Borne Disease
Day 2, Friday, September 19, 2025 – Tentative
Coffee at Biotech Accelerator
Coffee, tea, water provided
Sponsored Presentation: US Lyme disease risk factor survey
- Stephanie Duench, PhD. Pfizer Medical Affairs, Vaccines (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
Sponsored Presentation: VLA15 for Prevention of Lyme Disease
- James Groark, MD. Pfizer (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
Break
Living with Lyme…And More, Please Hear Me – Patient Panel with Q&A
- Maria Babcock. Homestead Funding Corp
- Dan Mathews, III. The Mathews Firm, PLLC
- Royale Scuderi. CNY Lyme & Tick-Borne Disease Alliance
- Dan Cummings. NewsChannel 9 (Moderator)
Lunch at Biotech Accelerator
Lunch provided
Pediatric Lyme – Clinical Pearls and Research Progress
- Roberta DeBiasi, MD, MS. Children's National Medical Center (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
Break
Brain Fog in Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses: Insights from the MIT MAESTRO Clinical Study
- Yuri Kim, RN. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
Persistent babesiosis
- Edouard Vannier, PharmD, PhD. Tufts Medical Center (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
Summit Wrap-Up