Program Saturday May 30th 2015
8.00 am – 8.55 am
Registration
9.00 am – 9.15 am
Welcome by NorVect and hostess Lise Askvik
9.15 am – 10.00 am
Raphael B. Stricker, MD
Lyme disease history and evolution of tick-borne disease
10.00 am – 10.45 am
Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH
Essentials for Lyme disease diagnostics and evidence based treatment
10.45 am – 11.05 am
Morning Networking Break
11.05 am– 11.30 am
Steven Phillips, MD
Exploring the Evidence for Chronic Infection in Lyme
11.30 am – 12.15 pm
Armin Schwarzbach, Ph.D, MD
Tick-borne coinfections – A European overview
12.15 pm– 12.35 pm
Questions
12.35 pm– 1.35 pm
Lunch – Networking
1.35 pm – 2.25 pm
Garth L. Nicolson Ph.D
Chronic Bacterial and Viral Infections in Neurodegenerative and Neurobehavioral Diseases and other Chronic Illnesses
2.25 pm – 3.10 pm
Volkhard Kempf, Ph.D, MD
Bartonella: “Sticky lollipops” & Angiogenesis
3.10 pm – 3.45 pm
Gad Baneth, DVM, Ph.D, Dipl. ECVCP
Babesiosis – A Group of Tick-Borne Protozoal Diseases with Zoonotic Importance
3.45 pm – 4.05 pm
Afternoon Networking Break
4.05 pm – 4.30 pm
Gad Baneth, DVM, Ph.D, Dipl. ECVCP
Ehrlichiosis – Tick-Borne Bacterial Diseases of humans and animals
4.30 pm– 4.55 pm
Steven E. Phillips, MD
Exploring the Evidence for Chronic Infection in Brucellosis
4.55 pm– 5.20 pm
Gad Baneth, DVM, Ph.D, Dipl. ECVCP
Dirofilariases- Emerging Filarial infections in Europe
5.20 pm– 5.30 pm
Poster session (oral presentation)
Ritchie C. Shoemaker, MD
Correlation of volumetric brain imaging with Western blot testing for Lyme disease
5.30 pm – 5.40 pm
Poster session (oral presentation)
Randi Eikeland, Ph.D, MD and Harald Reiso, Ph.D, MD
The Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Tick-borne Diseases (NKFS)
5.40 pm – 5.50 pm
Break
5.40 pm – 6.30 pm
Questions, Panel discussion
Program Sunday May 31st 2015
07.45 am – 08.25 am
Registration
08.30 am – 09.15 am
B. Robert Mozayeni, MD
Bartonella: Clinical Expression of Small Vessel Disease, Treatment Experience and Overlap with Lyme Disease
09.15 am – 10.00 am
Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH, MED
Neuropsychiatric Lyme disease – madness or reality?
10.00 am – 10.20 am
Morning Networking Break
10.20 am – 11.05 am
Armin Alaedini, Ph.D
Immunologic Mechanisms in the Persistence of Symptoms in Lyme Disease
11.05 am – 11.50 pm
Ying Zhang, Ph.D, MD
Borrelia Persister Drugs: Implications for Improved Treatment
11.50 am – 12.30 pm
Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH, MED
When Lyme symptoms persist – biological and treatment results from the U.S. Clinical Trial of Lyme Encephalopathy
12.30 pm – 12.50 pm
Questions
12.50 pm – 1.45 pm
Lunch – Networking
1.45 pm – 1.50 pm
NorVect Award
1.50 pm – 2.20 pm
Raphael B. Stricker, MD
Sexual transmission of Lyme Disease
2.20 pm – 3.05 pm
Neil Nathan, MD
Rebooting – A New Paradigm for Complex Medical Issues in Chronically ill patients
3.05 pm – 3.25 pm
Afternoon Networking Break
3.25 pm – 4.10 pm
Garth L. Nicolson Ph.D
Loss of Mitochondrial Function in Chronic Illnesses and Infectious Diseases and its Treatment with Lipid Replacement Therapy
4.10 pm – 4.50 pm
Neil Nathan, MD
The Importance of Evaluating Mold Toxicity and Methylation for Chronic Lyme Patients
4.50 pm – 5.00 pm
Poster session (oral presentation)
Peter Andras Csango, MD
Molecular detection of tick-borne bacteria in ticks in southern Norway
5.00 pm – 5.10 pm
Poster session (oral presentation)
Carl Morten Motzfeld Laane, Ph.D
Silent Babesia Infections in Norway
5.10 pm– 5.20 pm
Poster session (oral presentation)
Ravilya Yegemberdiyeva, Ph.D
Spectrum Of Tick-Borne Diseases Pathogens In Kazakhstan
5.20 pm – 5.30 pm
Break
5.30 pm – 6.10 pm
Questions, Panel discussion