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2025 LYME AWARE DELAWARE CONFERENCE

Friday, October 17, 2025

VIRTUAL Event

Hosted by Beebe Healthcare

 

• Conference Agenda 

• Full Program Syllabus

• Speaker Presentations (Slide Decks) & Video:

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OPENING

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Conference Welcome - Opening Remarks

Judy Landis Setting, BSN, RN (Inactive), CCRA, Delaware’s Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board (LDEOB) Chair & David A. Tam, MD, FACHE, President & CEO, Beebe Healthcare

Video 

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DELAWARE TICKBORNE ILLNESSES LEGISLATION & UPDATES

 

Delaware's Commitment to Lyme Disease Awareness and Education - Guest Remarks

The Honorable Kyle Evans Gay, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware

PDF (topic slides)

Video 

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Delaware Tick Program - Updates 

Ashley C. Kennedy, PhD, BCE, Delaware State Tick Biologist, Delaware DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife, LDEOB Member

PDF (topic slides)

Video  

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Tick-Borne Disease Reporting and Trends in Delaware - Updates

Antonio Alvarado, MS, Delaware Department of Public Health, Vector-Borne Disease Epidemiologist, One Health Program

PDF (topic slides)

Video  

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LYME DISEASE

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Lyme Disease and Post-Treatment Illness - Speaker Presentation 

John Aucott, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Former Chairman of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group

PDF (presentation slides)

Video

 

Unraveling the Immunopathology of Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses: Sex Differences and Predictive Diagnostics - Speaker Presentation 

Michal “Mikki” Caspi Tal, PhD, Principal Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Biological Engineering and Tal Research Group; Associate Scientific Director, MIT Center for Gynepathology Research

PDF (presentation slides) - COMING SOON!

Video - COMING SOON!

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Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Tick-Borne Illness: Impact and Treatment - Speaker Presentation 

Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH, Director, Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center, Director, Center for Neuroinflammatory Disorders & Biobehavioral Medicine, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

PDF (presentation slides)

Video

 

Lyme Disease Treatment - Speaker Discussion  

Neil G. Rellosa, MD, Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist, Nemours Children's Hospital, LDEOB Member & Elizabeth Maloney, MD, Education Director, VectorWise CME, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group

PDF (topic slides)

Video

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BABESIOSIS

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Therapeutic Strategies Targeting Babesia Adaptation and Survival Mechanisms - Speaker Presentation

Choukri Ben Mamoun, PhD, John F. Enders Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and of Microbial Pathogenesis and Pathology, Yale School of Medicine

PDF (presentation slides)

Video

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Afternoon Welcome - Guest Remarks

The Honorable Trinidad Navarro, Insurance Commissioner of Delaware

Video

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Babesia in the Mid-Atlantic Region & DE Tick Testing Program - Speaker Presentation

Michael H. Buoni, PhD, Instructor of Genetics, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Delaware Technical Community College

PDF (presentation slides)

Video

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Curative Pharmokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in the Babesia microti Immunocompromised Mouse Model: Bench to Clinic - Speaker Presentation

David J. Sullivan Jr., MD, Professor, Infectious Diseases Physician, Malariologist, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

PDF (presentation slides)

Video

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OTHER TICKBORNE ILLNESSES

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Combination Therapy for Borrelia and Bartonella Infections - Speaker Presentation

Monica E. Embers, PhD, Professor and Director of Vector-Borne Disease Research; Head, Education and Training Program, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University School of Medicine

PDF (presentation slides)

Video

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A Review of Diagnostic Testing for Lyme Disease - Speaker Presentation

Elizabeth L. Maloney, MD, Education Director, VectorWise CME, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group

PDF (presentation slides)

Video

 

A Tick Bite Can Make Me Allergic to Red Meat!? What You Need to Know About Alpha-Gal Syndrome - Speaker Presentation

Scott P. Commins, MD, PhD, William J. Yount Distinguished  Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Associate Chief for Allergy & Immunology; Medical Director, UNC Allergy and Immunology Clinic at Eastowne

PDF (presentation slides)

Video

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CLOSING

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CME Information & Gratitude - Closing Remarks

Mary Landon Green, Director of Marketing and Communications, Beebe Healthcare & Lori Maramante, EdD, LDEOB Vice Chair

Video

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2024 LYME AWARE DELAWARE CONFERENCE

Friday, May 17, 2024

Lewes Public Library, Lewes Delaware

Hosted by Beebe Healthcare

 

This free event focused on Lyme and tickborne diseases with Delaware-specific research, and offered CME/CEU opportunities to in-person & online participants. Thank you for your support and participation - it was a huge success! Click below for conference materials:​​

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• Conference Agenda

• Full Program Syllabus

• Speaker Presentations (Slide Decks) & Videos:​

 

​Morning Welcome & Delaware Lyme Law History  

Rep. Peter Schwartzkopf, Delaware State Speaker Pro Tempore

Video (speaker remarks) 

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Delaware Tick Program - Speaker Presentation

​Ashley Kennedy, PhD, BCE, Former Delaware State Tick Biologist, Delaware DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife, Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board Member

PDF (topic slides)

Video

 

Multiplex Assays for Surveillance of Delaware Tickborne Pathogens - Speaker Presentation 

​Michael Buoni, PhD, EdD, Instructor of Genetics, Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Delaware Technical Community College

PDF (topic slides, summary lesson)

Video

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Antibiotic Efficacy Against Lyme - Speaker Presentation  

Monica Embers, PhD, Director of Vector-Borne Disease Research, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane National Primate Research Center, Tulane University School of Medicine

PDF (topic slides)

Video

 

Lyme Disease Rashes & Research - Speaker Presentation  

John Aucott, MD, Director, Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Clinical Research Center, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

PDF (topic slides)

Video

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Lyme Disease Testing - Speaker Presentation  

​Elizabeth Maloney, MD, Physician, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, Founder and President, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education

PDF (topic slides)

Video

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One Health, and Reporting Lyme & Tickborne Disease in Delaware  - Speaker Remarks  

Douglas Riley, DVM, Delaware State Public Health Veterinarian, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), LDEOB Member

PDF: Why is One Health Important?  (information sheet)

PDF: Notifiable Disease Report  (fillable PDF form, Delaware Office of Infectious Disease Epidemiology)

Video 

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Afternoon Welcome   

Comm. Trinidad Navarro, Delaware State Insurance Commissioner

Video (speaker remarks) 

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Neuropsychiatric Lyme Disease - Speaker Presentation  

Brian Fallon, MD, MPH, Director, Lyme & Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center, Director, Center for Neuroinflammatory Disorders & Biobehavioral Medicine, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

PDF (topic slides)

Video 

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Evaluations & CME Credit Information 

​Tanya Ray, MS, Administrative Director of Graduate Medical Education, Beebe Healthcare

PDF (CloudCME® account instructions - CME credits available to conference registrants only)

Video (speaker remarks & conference CME details)

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Treatment Presentation - Speaker Discussion    

​Neil Rellosa, MD, Infectious Diseases Physician, Nemours Children's Hospital, LDEOB Member & Elizabeth Maloney, MD, Physician, Former Member of the Federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group, Founder and President, Partnership for Tick-Borne Diseases Education

PDF (topic slides)

Video 

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Physician Review Group for Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board & Gratitude    

Lori Maramante, EdD, Delaware Tech, LDEOB Vice Chair

Video (speaker remarks)