Please join us as we welcome back physician-scientist John Aucott, MD, Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Lyme Disease Research Center, for his 8th annual update and keynote talk to the Lyme Care Resource Center. Dr. Aucott will be discussing research advances in Lyme Disease and Tickborne Diseases, including an update on diagnostics, biomarker discovery, dysautonomia, advanced neuroimaging, and future treatments. Dr. Aucott is the Barbara Townsend Cromwell Professor in Lyme Disease and Tickborne Illness, an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Lyme Disease Research Center. Please join us for this valuable opportunity to learn from a renowned expert in Lyme disease. We encourage you to invite your family, friends, and health practitioners to participate in this informative livestream event.

Dr. Robert C. Bransfield, MD, graduated from Rutgers College and George Washington University School of Medicine. His residency training was at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. He is board-certified in Psychiatry and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). Dr. Bransfield’s clinical activities have focused upon treating patients who are considered to be treatment-resistant. Many of these patients were found to have infectious disease contributors to their psychiatric symptoms. As a result, his research has often focused upon the association between infectious disease and mental illness. Lyme/tick-borne diseases are a complex interactive infections that can result in significant neuropsychiatric symptoms. The association between microbes and mental illness shall be reviewed with a greater attention to Lyme/tick-borne diseases. Pathophysiology, assessment and treatment shall be discussed.