November, 2017

Dr. Soloski is currently a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and he holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine’s Departments of Pathology and Molecular Biology and Genetics as well as the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology in the School of Public Health. Dr. Soloski is currently the Co-Director for Basic Research for the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center. Dr Soloski received his Ph. D. in Microbiology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and then completed post-doctoral training in Immunology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, Southwestern Medical School prior to joining the faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1983. The overarching theme of Dr. Soloski’s research is understanding how infection can lead to long term persistent symptoms. At this time, he is focused on how the immune system contributes to the symptoms and severity of Human Lyme disease. He is very active and excited about the teaching of students, at all levels, about how the immune system evolved, how it protects us from infection and how it can contribute to disease.

September, 2017

James Lynch studied under a student of the late, great Pavlov. He began his own teaching as a psychiatry instructor at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1966. In 1976, he was made a full professor at the University of Maryland Medical School where he directed the Center for the Study of Human Psychophysiology at UM School of Medicine until 1986. He is the author of The Broken Heart and The Language of the Heart. He was a board member of The American Institute of Stress and on the staff of the Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Program at Lifebridge Health and Director of Life Care Health Associates in Baltimore, Maryland. For more than thirty years he served on the medical school faculties of Johns Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Maryland. Dr. Lynch has published numerous chapters in medical textbooks and has had more than one hundred articles published in peer-reviewed medical journals. He based his most recent book, A Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness, on thirty-six years of original research on the links between communication and heart disease.

June, 2017

Rachel Druckenmiller, MS has been in the wellness field for over 10 years. She is the Director of Wellbeing at a consulting firm in Baltimore and is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Culinary Nutrition Expert and educator, and blogger.  After using food and natural medicine to heal a decade of acid reflux and years of childhood illnesses, Rachel has learned that getting curious about and listening to our body is key to being well. She believes in “upgrading” our diet to nourish and fuel our bodies, so we can transform our lives and health. In February 2015, she was recognized as the #1 Health Promotion Professional in the U.S. by the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA). In May 2015, her blog, Rachel’s Nourishing Kitchen, was named as one of the Top 50 Clean Food Blogs by the Academy of Culinary Nutrition.

May, 2017

Please join us as we celebrate our one-year anniversary of supporting one another, providing resources for keeping spirits up especially when faced with setbacks, learning new strategies and coping styles in response to some of the life challenges that Lyme brings, developing a deeper strength and connection with the self when faced with health challenges, and focusing on how we can all make meaning from the experience and look ahead brightly at a hopeful future. Join us for: 

• A review of our first year
• Moving forward and what is next
• A celebration of our members – share your story with us – sign up with with Michele at info@lymecenter.org for a brief 5-minute session to tell your story to our group (slots are limited)
• A closing message and social time

April, 2017

Hope McIntyre, MD obtained her bachelor’s degree in Pre-medicine from the Pennsylvania State University in 1986.  She received her MD from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1990.  After completing a residency in Family Practice at the Harrisburg Family Residency Program, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, she joined Parkview Medical Group in Mount Airy, Maryland in 1994. She remained with that practice until 2010 when she opened her solo practice in Towson, Maryland to focus on tick-borne disease.  She completed two ILADS one week mini fellowships, the first in 2006 with Dr. Ann Corson and a second in 2010 with Dr. Charles Ray Jones. As a family physician, Dr. McIntyre is trained to treat patients of all ages, but she is especially interested in treating children with Lyme disease who were previously underserved in Maryland.  

March, 2017

Kristi Shaw has taught yoga for over a decade, with a therapeutic focus in her classes and private instruction.  She holds a Master of Health Science in Public Health and a PhD in Biological Oceanography, where she focused her dissertation research on bacterial and viral pathogens in the marine environment.  Her post-doctoral work was in Environmental Epidemiology, looking at the impact of bacterial infections related to environmental characteristics.  Kristi is presently completing her final hours at University of Maryland Medical School, Center for Integrative Health towards a 500 hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) certification.  She has focused her therapeutic focus on how to utilize gentle yoga and guided meditation to reduce the stress response in Lyme patients while increasing general well-being, pain management skills and ease.

February, 2017

Dr. Ramesh Khurana, M.D., FAAN, FAHS is a board certified Neurologist.  He is the Chief of Neurology at Medstar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland  Dr. Khurana specializes in Autonomic Dysfunction and has published extensively in the areas of headache, autonomic function tests, multiple system atrophy, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).  Dr. Khurana has over 40 years of experience in neurology and has been named “Top Docs” by Baltimore Magazine for headache neurology consecutively in 2015 & 2016.

January, 2017

Author, Speaker and Life Strategist, Dr. Nancy Fox, works with businesses, organizations, and individuals that want to empower their people/selves to face challenges as opportunities and provide extraordinary service to others.  Fox is an educator of 25 years, publishing children’s books; No Ticks, Please, Hide-and- Seek: No Ticks, Please, The Parasite Convention (2017), a K-12 Lyme Disease Prevention and Awareness Curriculum and Decisive Women: Designing Decisions in 5 Minutes or Less. Her passion is driven from surviving Lyme disease and Babesia. Once she recovered from years of misdiagnosis, her mission became to teach others to protect themselves from the devastating effects of tick-borne diseases.