Day 2, Friday, September 19, 2025 – Tentative
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Coffee at Biotech Accelerator
Coffee, tea, water provided
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Sponsored Presentation: US Lyme disease risk factor survey
- Stephanie Duench, PhD . Pfizer Medical Affairs, Vaccines (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
9:45 am - 10:30 am
Sponsored Presentation: VLA15 for Prevention of Lyme Disease
- James Groark, MD . Pfizer (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Break
10:45 am - 11:45 am
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)
11:45 am - 12:45 am
Lunch at Biotech Accelerator
Lunch provided
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm
Pediatric Lyme – Clinical Pearls and Research Progress
- Roberta DeBiasi, MD, MS . Children's National Medical Center (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Break
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
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)
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Persistent babesiosis
- Edouard Vannier, PharmD, PhD . Tufts Medical Center (Presentation 30 minutes, Q&A 15 minutes)
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Summit Wrap-Up