The Dutchess County Tick Task Force held its annual Tick Educational Event on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, and included informative presentations from the following top research professionals:
Monica Embers, Persistent Lyme Disease: Supportive Evidence and Potential Solutions
Saravanan Thangamani, Community-Engaged tick Surveillance to Track the Emergence of Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in New York State
Holly Ahern, Suny Adirondack, Maternal-Fetal Transmission of Lyme Disease and Babesia - What Present and Future Moms Need to Know
Tick Task Force Educational Event - July 19, 2022
The Dutchess County Tick Task Force held its annual Tick Educational Event on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, and included informative presentations from the following top research professionals:
EMILY MADER - The New York State Tick Blitz: Community-Based Science in Vector-Borne Disease Prevention
BRIAN FALLON - Two New Clinical Initiatives at Columbia - The Cohen Center for Health and Recovery from Tick-Borne Diseases and the New National Clinical Trials Network
SARAVANAN THANGAMANI, PH.D. - Statewide Tick Surveillance Research - Tracking the Emergence of Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in New York)
HOLLY AHERN, SUNY ADIRONDACK - Diagnostic Testing for Lyme Disease: Are Accurate Tests on the Horizon
DR. RICHARD HOROWITZ - Novel Persister Drug Regimens in the Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease/PTLDS
MASON KAUFFMAN - Advances in Integrated Tick Management
BRIAN F. LEYDET JR, MPH, PHD - Lyme Disease in Deer and Tick "Scare" Environments
Tick Task Force Educational Event - July 20, 2021
The Dutchess County Tick Task Force held its annual Tick Educational Event on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, and included informative presentations from the following top research professionals:
DR. RICHARD HOROWITZ - Early Lyme/Acute COVID, Chronic Lyme/COVID Longhaulers: Similarities, Differences, and Potential Diagnostic and Treatment Approaches
HOLLY AHERN, SUNY ADIRONDACK - Lyme Disease and Women's Health
CHELLE HARTZER, BCE, US BIOLOGIC - National Wildlife Tick-Borne Disease Program
SARAVANAN THANGAMANI, PhD - Tracking the Emergence of Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases in New York
MONICA EMBERS PhD - Antibiotic Efficacy for Lyme disease
BRIAN FALLON, MD - The Mental Health Burden of Lyme Disease - Knowns and Unknowns
Tick Task Force Virtual Exhibit - May 7, 2020
In light of the COVID19 pandemic and the need to be socially distant, this year’s annual Tick Exhibit is being held virtually and will include informative presentations from top research professionals.
Please view the following PowerPoint presentations to develop a broader understanding of all aspects of tick-borne diseases.
Agenda (video available on YouTube by clicking on presenter names)
Dr. Kirby C. Stafford III, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Department of Entomology Chief Scientist, “Biorational and Ecological Strategies for Tick Control and the Prevention of Tick-Borne Disease”
Eva Sapi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of New Haven Department of Biology & Environmental Science, “Borrelia Biofilm and Antibiotic Resistance”
Dr. Thomas Mather, Director of University of Rhode Island's Center for Vector-Borne Disease and its TickEncounter Resource Center, “Tick Spotter Program”
Dr. Rick Ostfeld, Senior Scientist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Holly Ahearn, Associate Professor of Microbiology, SUNY Adirondack, "The Bacteriology of Borreliosis"
Mason Kauffman, U.S. Biologic CEO, “Stopping Lyme Disease in its Tracks”
