CPD and PGEA approved

Following a successful first conference in Hull on 1 & 2 September 2001, the organising group agreed that further events were needed to bring together medical staff, academic researchers, and patients who appear to suffer from vector-borne zoonoses. Although patients may have been given the wide diagnosis 'Lyme disease', one of the aims of the conference will be to clarify the diversity and diagnoses of diseases contracted within the UK.

York St John College is conveniently located in the centre of historic York, UK. Accommodation in single study-bedrooms is available in the college. The College is disabled-friendly. A location map is shown on the back of this leaflet. Further information is available on the web pages www.yorksj.ac.uk

The plan for the conference is to have one full day of medical and scientific papers and a second day more devoted to the needs of the organising group. The programme for the first day appears opposite. Further poster presentations are still welcome.

Contact details :

The local organiser on behalf of Lyme Disease Action (a charity in the process of formation) is:

Gill Reese (+44 1430 810274)
Email: gilly848@ntlworld.com

The Chair of LDA is :
Mrs Stephanie Woodcock (+44 1326 375419)

Website :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EuroLyme

Sponsored by:
Lyme Disease Association, Inc. of America

Friday 20 June 2003

8am-9.00 Registration

9.00-9.30 Professor Roy Brown (Environmentalist - UK)
Tick-borne disease in Europe: a review of the first 20 years

9.30-10.15 Dr Mrs Laurence Meer-Scherrer (Family Practitioner - Switzerland)
Babesia microti in Europe: detection, diagnosis, clinical features, complications
and therapy

10.15-11.00 Dr Salomon
(Chef de Clinique Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales - Paris)
Chronic Lyme disease: a study of a cohort of 100 patients

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-1pm Dr Joseph Burrascano (Physician and Lyme Specialist - USA)
Managing Lyme disease and other Tick-borne Illnesses

1pm-2.00 Lunch break

2.00-2.30 Patients' notes - brief descriptions of their history by a number of patients

2.30-3.15 Dr Marie Kroun (Medical Practitioner and Lyme sufferer, Denmark)
A Pilot Study of 25-30 Danish and Swedish Chronically-ill Patients whose
history and symptoms cause a suspicion of persistent active Borreliosis

3.15-4.00 Dr Evelin Schröck & Prof Dr. JA Roßner
(Research Physicians and Lyme sufferers, Germany)
Effective treatment for Persistent Borreliosis based on a New Model of the
Complex Interaction between Men and Borrelia burgdorferi

4.00-4.30 Tea break

4.30-5.15 Dr Mrs Laurence Meer-Scherrer (Family Practitioner, Switzerland)
A New Tick-borne Disease: Bartonella hensellae - Case reports

5.15-6.00 Dr Eli Mordechai (Director of MDL labs, USA)
Tick-borne diseases as a whole

Poster presentations

"Epidemiology of Lyme disease in Germany" by Uta Everth

"Mediterranean spotted fever in Bulgaria" by Dr Radka Komitova

York is well served by mainline trains from London King's Cross. International air links are available to (in ascending order of distance) Leeds/Bradford, Humberside, Manchester, Birmingham and the London airports.