2013 Conference FacultyBiographiesClick on name to link to bio:

John Aucott, MD Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH Richard Rhee, MD, FAAN

Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD Leila Zackrison, MD Sam Shor, MD, FACP

Edward B. Beitschwerdt, DVM A.T. Charlie Johnson, PhDRW (Bill) Stich, MD,

PhD

George Chaconas, PhD Kenneth B. Liegner, MDEllen Stromdahl, MS,

BCE

Madeleline W. Cunningham,

PhDElizabeth Maloney, MD Ernest Visconti, MD

Sam T. Donta, MDJudith Miklossy, MD, PhD,

DSc

John Aucott, MD

Assistant Professor in Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Private Practice: Board Certified, Internal Medicine

10755 Falls Road, Suite 200

Lutherville, MD, 21093

Erythema Migrans (EM) in Lyme Diagnosis

Dr. Aucott is a graduate of the University of California atBerkeley where he was elected to the membership of Phi BetaKappa. He attended the Johns Hopkins University School ofMedicine, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal

Medicine with sub-specialty training in Infectious Disease andGeographic Medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Heserved as the Section Head for General Internal Medicine andthe Residency Program Director at the Cleveland VeteransAffairs Medical Center while on the faculty at Case WesternReserve University School of Medicine from 1989-1996. He waspromoted to Associate Professor of Medicine in 1995.

In 1996, Dr. Aucott returned to Baltimore to join the clinicalFaculty of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine wherehis focus has been on clinical translation research in Lymedisease. He is currently the Principal Investigator for theprospective cohort study, SLICE, examining the impact of acuteLyme disease on long-term health outcomes and immune function.

Dr. Aucott is the founder of the Lyme Disease ResearchFoundation, a public non-profit organization founded topromote research and education in Lyme disease. He haslectured through programs sponsored by Johns Hopkins Divisionsof Medicine and Infectious Diseases, the American College ofPhysicians, and other major medical programs in the UnitedStates. He has published numerous articles in the field ofinfectious diseases and Lyme disease.

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Nicole Baumgarth, DVM, PhD

Center for Comparative Medicine

University of California, Davis

County Rd 98 & Hutchison Dr.

Davis, CA 95616

B cell subversion during Borrelia infection – a persistence strategy

Nicole Baumgarth is a DVM, PhD and Professor of Immunology at the Center for

Comparative Medicine, University of California, Davis. She is also the Chair of the

Graduate Group in Immunology there. Dr. Baumgarth’s research encompasses studies on

the regulation of immune responses to infections and B cell biology. Much of her

recent work has focused on the regulation of B cell responses and B cell subset

responses using mouse models to two very different pathogens and immune responses:

Acute influenza virus infection, an infection that fully resolves and induces highly

protective and long-lived B cell-mediated immunity, and B cell responses to Borrelia

burgdorferi, a bacterial spirochete and the causative agent of Lyme disease.

Infections with B. burgdorferi induce strong B cell responses, however, those

responses to not result in clearance of the infection. By contrasting a successful

with a not-successful B cell response her group hopes to uncover important immune

regulatory mechanisms that shape the quality of the B cell response.

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Edward B. Breitschwerdt, DVM

Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases

North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine

Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM)

Raleigh, NC

Bartonelliosis: A One Health Approach to a Persistent Blood-Borne Infection

Dr. Edward B. Breitschwerdt is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at

North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine. He is also an

adjunct professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and a Diplomate,

American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM). Dr. Breitschwerdt directs

the Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory in the Center for Comparative

Medicine and Translational Research at North Carolina State University. He also co-

directs the Vector Borne Diseases Diagnostic Laboratory and is the director of the

NCSU-CVM Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory.

A graduate of the University of Georgia, Breitschwerdt completed an internship and

residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Missouri between 1974 and 1977.

He has served as president of the Specialty of Internal Medicine and as chairman of

the ACVIM Board of Regents. He is a former associate editor for the Journal of

Veterinary Internal Medicine and was a founding member of the ACVIM Foundation.

Breitschwerdt’s clinical interests include infectious diseases, immunology, and

nephrology. For over 20 years, his research has emphasized vector-transmitted,

intracellular pathogens. Most recently, he has contributed to cutting-edge research

in the areas of animal and human bartonellosis. In addition to authoring numerous

book chapters and proceedings, Dr. Breitschwerdt’s research group has published more

that 300 manuscripts in peer-reviewed scientific journals. In 2012, he received the

North Carolina State University Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award and in

2013 he received the Holladay Medal, the highest award bestowed on a faculty member

at North Carolina State University

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George Chaconas, PhD

Canada Research Chair in the Molecular Biology of Lyme Borreliosis

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

The University of Calgary

Calgary, AB

Canada

Live Imaging Studies of Dissemination of the Lyme Spirochete in Mice

George Chaconas obtained his Ph.D. in the Division of MedicalBiochemistry at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canadaand did postdoctoral work Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in NewYork. He subsequently took a faculty position in theDepartment of Biochemistry at the University of WesternOntario. His laboratory focused on the molecular mechanism ofDNA transposition or “how jumping genes jump”. In 1999-2000,with the help of a Guggenheim Fellowship, George’s researchinterests took a turn through a sabbatical at the NIH RockyMountain Labs in Montana where he began working on the Lymedisease pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi. In 2002 he took aposition in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biologyand the Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases atthe University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada where he iscurrently Professor, Scientist of the Alberta Heritage

Foundation for Medical Research and holds the Canada ResearchChair in the Molecular Biology of Lyme Borreliosis.

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Madeleine W. Cunningham, PhD

George Lynn Cross Research Professor

Presbyterian Health Foundation Presidential Professor

Microbiology and Immunology

Director, Immunology Training Program

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Biomedical Research Center

Oklahoma City, OK

Anti-Neuronal Antibiodies in Lyme Disease

Dr Cunningham received her PhD in1973 at University ofTennessee-Memphis in Microbiology and Immunology. She studiedfor 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow in Protein Studies at theOklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City.Following her postdoctoral fellowship, she accepted a positionat the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center & hasmaintained an active laboratory since 1980.Research in Dr. Cunningham’s laboratory investigates molecularmimicry, autoimmunity and infection in inflammatory heartdiseases and in behavioral and movement disorders.

Her laboratory studies autoimmunity, infection and behaviorwhich is manifest in diseases such as Sydenham’s chorea and inpediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder following groupA streptococcal infection (PANDAS). Using human monoclonalantibodies, the work has identified antibody mediated neuronalcell signaling as a potential basis for movement orneuropsychiatric disorders and potentially other brain relateddisorders, including obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette’sSyndrome and Tics. These diseases including PANDAS are underinvestigation to determine the relationship of autoantibodies

which bind to brain antigens or signal in the brain todevelopment of symptoms. Investigation of Lyme disease forautoantibodies against the brain has been funded by the LymeDisease Association and the study is underway in herlaboratory. She was funded by the National Institute of MentalHealth Bench to Bedside Grant to investigate autoantibodies inPANDAS in the recent IVIG trial.

In addition, her laboratory investigates the pathogenesis ofrheumatic carditis, a sequela of group A streptococcalpharyngitis, and of myocarditis, a complication that canfollow coxsackieviral infections. Rheumatic carditis affectsthe heart valves, while myocarditis results in the destructionof the myocardium. Studies in myocarditis currently aresupported by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute andare focused on a 5 year longitudinal study of T cell subsetsand monocyte responses in patients with myocarditis whodevelop cardiomyopathy. Translational research using humanmonoclonal antibodies and T cell clones from disease haveprovided clues about pathogenic mechanisms in disease. Otherwork funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Instituteincludes studies of the pathogenesis of hypoplastic left heartsyndrome in infants.

Dr. Cunningham has served many years on review panels at theNational Institutes of Health and served on the NationalResearch Committee at the American Heart Association. She wasa representative of the United States for the US-Indo VaccineAction Program. She was elected an AAAS fellow and ASM fellow.She received a National Heart Lung and Blood InstituteResearch Career Development Award and Merit Award. She hasbeen supported by the NIH for the past 25 years. She is theDirector of the NIAID supported Immunology Training Program atthe University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Shelectured on the effects of autoantibodies on the brain in thePresidential Symposium at the American Association ofImmunologists in 2010. Dr Cunningham is the author of over 100

publications.

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Sam T. Donta, MD

Consulting Physician in Infectious Diseases Fairmouth Hospital

Falmouth, MA

Issues in the Treatment of Lyme Disease

Dr Donta grew up in Western Pennsylvania, received his BS from Allegheny College,

his MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, did an internship/residency in

Internal Medicine at U. of Pittsburgh Hospitals, served in Air Force at Otis AFB,

MA, did post-doctoral training in Biochemistry at Brandeis, and Fellowship in

Infectious Diseases at Boston Univ.

He went to U. of Iowa where he became Professor of Medicineand Chief of Infectious Diseases, then was at U. ofConnecticut for 11yrs as Chief of ID, Chief of Medicine at VA,then moved to Boston University/Boston VA for 10yrs before hisretirement.

His basic interests have been in microbial toxins, but he hasalso been involved in a number of clinical trials. For thelast 25yrs, he has been interested in Lyme disease, andcontinues to have an active clinical practice in Falmouth,studying and treating patients with chronic Lyme disease andother multi-symptom disorders such as Chronic Fatigue Syndromeand Fibromyalgia.

He is the author of 100+ publications on toxins, Lyme Disease,Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses, and hopes to continue researchin these areas.

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Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH (Course Co-Director)

Professor of Psychiatry

Director, Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center,

Columbia University Medical Center

Director, Center for the Study of Neuroinflammatory Disorders &

Biobehavioral Medicine, New York State Psychiatric Institute

New York, NY

Lyme Disease Or Hypochondriasis

Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH. Dr. Fallon is director of the Lyme &Tick-borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia UniversityMedical Center where he leads a team focused on biomarkers,diagnostics and treatment of chronic Lyme symptoms. His team’srecent work has included the testing of novel diagnosticassays in a large community study, as well as collaborating onnew test development using the Columbia Lyme Centerbiorepository. His team’s work on Lyme encephalopathy led tothe discovery of hundreds of unique proteins present in theCSF of Lyme patients but not in the CSF of patients withchronic fatigue syndrome or healthy controls. His team’scurrent focus is on clarifying the immunologic profile andneural circuitry of patients with persistent symptoms. Histeam is also investigating the CNS metabolic effects ofintravenous ceftriaxone using MR Spectroscopy to probeglutamatergic transmission. Dr. Dwork in his Center isexamining the neuropathologic findings in post-mortem studiesof patients with chronic Lyme symptoms. Dr. Moeller in hisCenter is examining the interaction between peripheralimmunologic markers, central immune markers, and brainneurocircuitry among patients with chronic symptoms with thegoal of identifying of biomarkers to help guide treatmentrecommendations. Dr. Fallon serves on the editorial and reviewboard of three journals, has lectured and published widely,

and most recently has led an international team for theAmerican Psychiatric Association’s revision of DSM-5 toclarify the prevalence of illness anxiety in the generalpopulation.

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A.T. Charlie Johnson, BS, MS, PhD

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs

Secondary Appoints in: Materials Science & Engineering and Electrical & Systems

Engineering

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Detecting Lyme disease using antibody-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotube

transistors

A. T. Charlie Johnson received a B.S. from Stanford University, and a M.S. and Ph.D.

from Harvard University, all in Physics. He was a European Union ESPRIT Postdoctoral

Fellow at the Delft University of Technology and a National Research Council

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

(Boulder, CO). He leads an independent research group at Penn, focused on

nanostructure physics and nanoelectronics. Johnson worked extensively in the science

of carbon nanotubes, making significant contributions to the understanding of

thermal and electronic transport in this important nanomaterial. More recently he

has been active in the area of vapor- and liquid-phase molecular sensing using

functionalized nanotube field effect transistors, as well as graphene electronics

and synthesis of wafer-scale graphene. Johnson was the recipient of an NSF Graduate

Research Fellowship, a Packard Foundation Science and Engineering Fellowship, a

Sloan Fellowship, and selection as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, among

other honors. Along with the authorship of over 140 peer-reviewed articles, Johnson

holds three awarded patents, with 18 other patents submitted. Johnson is a member of

the Founding Editorial Board of AIP Advances. He is also a scientific founder of two

companies based on technology from his laboratory, Graphene Frontiers and Adamant

Technologies.

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Kenneth B. Liegner, M.D.

Internal & Critical Care Medicine

Lyme Borreliosis & Related Disorders

Pawling, NY

Problems of Lyme Disease Testing

Dr. Kenneth Liegner is a Board Certified Internist with additional training in

Pathology and Critical Care Medicine, practicing in Pawling, New York. He has been

actively involved in diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and related disorders

since 1988. He has published articles on Lyme disease in peer-reviewed scientific

journals and has presented poster abstracts and talks at national and international

conferences on Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases. He has cared for many

persons seriously ill with chronic and neurologic Lyme disease. His work has focused

on the serious morbidity and (occasional) mortality that can eventuate from this

aspect of the illness. He has emphasized the urgent need for widespread clinical

availability of improved methods of diagnostic testing and for development of

improved methods of treatment for Lyme disease in all its stages. He holds the first

United States patent issued proposing application of acaricide to deer for area-wide

control of deer-tick populations as a means of reducing the incidence of Lyme

disease.

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Elizabeth Maloney, MD

Board certified in Family Medicine

President, Partnership for Health & Healing (accredited CME program

provider)

Wyoming, MN

The Ethics of Clinical Decision-Making When the Scientific Evidence is Unclear or

Absent

Elizabeth L. Maloney, MD, is board-certified in family medicine and president of

Partnership for Healing and Health, a company providing accredited CME programs on

Lyme disease for physicians and other health professionals as well as Lyme disease

education and training programs for private organizations and government agencies.

She has published on Lyme disease in peer-reviewed journals and frequently lectures

on Lyme disease at hospitals and medical conferences.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Maloney has held severalphysician leadership roles. She served as Chief of Staff atDistrict Memorial Hospital and on the Board of Directors ofAllina Medical Clinics, a multi-specialty healthcare system.Dr. Maloney is a member of the American Academy of FamilyPhysicians, the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians and theInternational Lyme and Associated Diseases Society.

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Judith Miklossy, MD, PhD, DSc

Board Certified in Neurology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and

Neuropathology

Founder, Prevention Alzheimer Foundation

Director, International Alzheimer Research Center

Martigny-Combe, VS Switzerland

Late/Chronic Lyme Disease & its Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease

Dr. Miklossy is the founder of the Prevention Alzheimer International Foundation

and director of the International Alzheimer Research Center in Switzerland. She also

practices memory and Lyme disease consultation in Vigimed Medical Center, Martigny,

Switzerland.

She is board certified in neurology, psychiatry andpsychotherapy (Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen,Hungary) as well as in neuropathology (Swiss Society ofNeuropathology and Swiss Medical Federation). She has receivedthe degrees of Private docent (Dr habil or DSc) and Maîtred’Enseignement et de Recherche (MER) in the UniversityHospital Center of Lausanne (CHUV), University of Lausanne,Switzerland.

She was head of the Neurodegeneration research group for morethan ten years in the University Institute of Pathology,Lausanne, Switzerland. She has done molecular biology researchand participated in the introduction of Alzheimer’s researchin the Center of Neurovirology, Department of Neuroscience,Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. She headed theneuropathology of the Kinsmen Laboratory of NeurologicalResearch, in The University of British Columbia, Vancouver,Canada. She is on the board of directors or scientificadvisory board of several international organizations orfoundations.

For more than 25 years she is actively involved in research onAlzheimer’s disease and Lyme disease in the framework ofinternational collaborations. Her presentations oninternational meetings and her publications were repeatedlyconsidered for CME and press releases.

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Richard S. Rhee, M.D., F.A.A.N.

Clinical Professor of neurology

Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ

Founder & President, Jersey Shore Neurology Associates Group

Neptune, NJ

Lyme Disease: Neurologic Differential

Dr. Richard Rhee was born in South Korea and had extensive training in both internal

medicine and neurology in New York City including Queens General Hospital (Internal

Medicine), New York University – Bellevue Hospital and State University of New York

Downstate Medical Center. He is certified in neurology, EEG, EMG and neurosonology.

He did a fellowship in neurophysiology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and

remained as a part of the teaching faculty from 1971-1975 at the Neurological

Institute of Columbia University. He has been in primary practice in neurology as

the Founder and President of the Jersey Shore Neurology Associates Group in Neptune,

NJ since 1975.

He has served as the President of multiple professionalorganizations including Monmouth County Medical Society of NewJersey, New Jersey Neurological Society, Korean-AmericanNeurological Association (KANA) (Founding President),President of Korean-American Medical Association (KAMA) andsince 1998 he has been serving as a member of the Scientific &Professional Advisory Board, Lyme Disease Association, Inc.

He has published numerous scientific articles in the field ofNeurology including Lyme disease and lectured in the U.S.A.and abroad on the topics of neurological Lyme disease.

He has received multiple awards and honors including PrimeMinister’s Award by the Republic of Korea, Ellis Island Awardby National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations in the U.S.A.,Faculty Teaching Award from Robert Wood Johnson MedicalSchool, New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners and JerseyShore University Medical Center for his professionalcontributions. He currently serves as a Clinical Professor ofneurology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – University

of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey since 1981.

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Samuel Shor, MD, FACPChair, Loudoun County Lyme Commission

Associate Clinical Professor

George Washington University Health Care Sciences

Internal Medicine & HBO Therapy of Northern Virginia

Reston, Virginia

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Lyme Disease – Is There A Connection?

Samuel Shor, MD, FACP; Associate Clinical Professor, George Washington University

Health Care Sciences. Trained in Primary Care Internal Medicine, Dr. Shor has had an

interest in chronic fatigue since starting practicing medicine in1985. His first

peer reviewed publication was in 2003 on the Pathogenesis of Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome a Multisystem Hypothesis. Soon thereafter he became interested in a

possible connection between chronic fatigue and Lyme disease. Embracing that topic,

he is presently chair of the Loudoun County Lyme commission and was a member of the

2010 Virginia Governor’s Lyme Task Force. He presented on the topic to a

congressional hearing in 2008 and has twice been a participant on the nationally

syndicated NPR Diane Rehm Show. Dr. Shor will now speak about his peer reviewed

original research published in the Spring of 2011 in the on line Bulletin of the

International Association of CFS/ME, A Retrospective Analysis of a Cohort of

Internationally Case Defined Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients in a Lyme Endemic

Area, the topic of his talk today.

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R.W. (Bill) Stich, MS, PhD

Professor of Parasitology, Department Veterinary Pathobiology

University of Missouri

Columbia, MO

Persistence of Tick-Borne Infections

Dr. Bill Stich is a Professor of Parasitology in the University of Missouri

Department of Veterinary Pathobiology. Bill has worked with a diverse range of

metazoan, protozoan and rickettsial parasites that include ticks (Dermacentor,

Rhipicephalus, Amblyomma and Ixodes spp.), Schistosoma mansoni, Babesia bovis,

Sarcocystis neurona, Neospora caninum, Anaplasma marginale, A. phagocytophilum,

Ehrlichia canis and E. chaffeensis. Most of Bill’s work currently involves tick-

borne parasites and pathogens, for which he utilizes molecular, proteomic, cellular,

immunological and clinical technologies to investigate interactions between these

pathogens and their invertebrate and vertebrate hosts.

Bill earned his academic degrees in Veterinary Parasitology at Oklahoma State

University, where he studied Anaplasma marginale, a rickettsial pathogen of cattle.

These graduate studies included a year of training in the Molecular Biology Division

of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute in South Africa. Bill then

studied Schistosoma mansoni, a human ‘blood fluke’, as a postdoctoral research

fellow under the auspices of an NIH training grant titled “Molecular and Cell

Biology of Parasites and Vectors” at the University of Georgia. Bill then moved to

Washington State University to work as a postdoctoral research associate on an NIH

grant to investigate innate and adaptive cellular immunity of cattle to Babesia

bovis, an important protozoan parasite that causes a highly pathogenic form of

bovine babesiosis that is similar to severe human malaria.

After a short time at WSU, Bill joined the faculty of Veterinary Preventive Medicine

at The Ohio State University as an assistant professor, where he continued to work

on parasitic diseases of livestock caused by intracellular protozoan parasites. It

was during this time when Bill began to work with tick-borne pathogens that infect

dogs and people. After promotion with tenure at Ohio State, Dr. Stich then

transferred to the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology at the University of

Missouri as a tenured associate professor, to continue his work on tick-borne

rickettsial pathogens in ‘lone star tick country.’ Bill also teaches the nematode

and trematode sections of veterinary parasitology while he continues to pursue his

long-standing interest in the mitigation of vector-borne diseases of medical and

economic importance. These efforts include the control of tick-borne rickettsial

diseases through better understanding of the mechanisms underlying transmission and

pathogenesis of their etiologic agents. So far Bill has trained seven postdoctoral

researchers, five of which were DVM/PhD’s, and he has served as major adviser for

five MS and four PhD graduate students. Bill’s work has received support from

several grants from the NIH and from industry. Bill also served as President for the

Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases in 2009, he is a Councilor for the

Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine and on the Board of Directors for the

Companion Animal Parasite Council. Bill currently serves on the editorial advisory

board of the journal, Veterinary Parasitology, and he is editor in chief of Animal

Health Research Reviews.

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Ellen Stromdahl, MS, BCE

US Army Public Health Command

Entomological Sciences Program

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

US Army Findings in Ticks in the Upper Midwest

Ellen Stromdahl is an entomologist and has worked in the Tick-Borne Disease Program

of the U.S. Army Public Health Command (formerly U.S. Army Center for Health

Promotion and Preventive Medicine) since 1995.

The Program operates the Tick-Borne Disease Laboratory and produces and disseminates

educational materials on tick-borne disease prevention. The Laboratory identifies

and tests ticks removed from DOD personnel submitted in the DOD Human Tick Test Kit

Program.

Ms. Stromdahl’s research has focused on emerging humanpathogens associated with the ticks found in the UnitedStates, including Ehrlichia sp. Wisconsin, or “EML”, and otherpathogens associated with Ixodes scapularis in the Upper

Midwest.

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Ernest Visconti, MD

Attending in Medicine & PediatricsLutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn;

Pediatric ID at Staten Island University Hospital &

Richmond University Medical Center

Private practice office location

Staten Island, New York

Helpful Hints in the Differential Diagnosis of Lyme Disease

Dr. Ernest Visconti has been attending in medicine and pediatrics at Lutheran

Medical Center for 30 years. He also does pediatric ID at Staten Island University

Hospital & Richmond University Medical Center. His private practice in infectious

disease consists of treating patients with the following diseases: Lyme disease,

chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, Epstein-Barr, other tick-borne diseases, and many

other disabilities.

Dr Visconti is also a pediatrician and has a large practice on Staten Island. There

he sees well children for their examinations and vaccines. He also sees children

with disabilities.

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Leila Zackrison, MD, FACR, FACP

Internal Medicine, Rheumatology

Private Practice Fairfax, VA

Lyme Disease: Rheumatologic/Autoimmune Differential

Leila H Zackrison, MD, FACR, FACP, FAARM, a board certified physician earned her

Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and a Doctorate of Medicine from Loma Linda

University in California. She did her internship and residency in Internal Medicine

and Rheumatology fellowship at Georgetown University Medical Center Washington DC.

Dr. Zackrison, (Dr. Z. as she is affectionately called by her patients) is licensed

in the Commonwealth of Virginia to practice Medicine and Surgery. She is a Fellow of

the American College of Physicians and American College of Rheumatology, and a

Fellow of American Academy of Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine. She

has been in private practice since 1993 treating patients nationwide using an

integrative medicine approach.

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