Neuropsychologists and Lyme disease specialists Dr. Leo Shea, III, and Dr. Judith G. Leventhal will be the guest presenters at the June 25 meeting of the New York City Lyme Disease Support Group.
Monday June 25th, 2007
Cabrini Hospital
3rd Floor -- Grace Hall (take rear elevator & follow signs)
227 East 19th Street between 2nd & 3rd Ave.
New York City 6:30pm- short support group meeting
7pm - Dr. Shea and Dr. Leventhal ------------------------------------------------ DR. LEO SHEA is Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Rusk Institute at New York University, Founder and President, Neuropsychological Evaluation & Treatment Services, P.C., and Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Research Fund for Tick-Borne Diseases, Inc.
His areas of focus include tick-borne diseases, traumatic brain injury, neurological injury/illness, chronic illness, trauma and loss, contingency and disaster management, as well as psychotherapy and cognitive remediation with individuals and groups in corporate, entertainment and religious settings
More about Dr. Shea:
Neuropsychologist Designs Unique Rehab Program for Lyme Disease Patients
National Research Fund for Tick-Borne Diseases, Inc.
http://www.nrftd.org./ ------------------------------------------------ DR. JUDITH G. LEVENTHAL , a Clinical Psychologist, is Clinical Instructor at New York University School of Medicine Department of Rehabilitation Medicine.
She is staff member of Neuropsychological Evaluation & Treatment Services, P.C.
Her areas of interest and expertise include tick-borne diseases, neurological disorders, traumatic brain injury, trauma and loss, learning and language disabilities in children, and individual and family resilience.
Articles by Dr. Shea and Dr. Leventhal
http://www.n-e-t-s.org/resources.html ---------------------------------------------- The New York City Lyme Disease Support Group meets the 4th Monday of each month at 6:30pm at Cabrini Hospital, 227 East 19th Street, Room 340, NYC.
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Looks like Shea has affiliations with Dumler and Ira Schwartz. These are at least two of the names that immediately make me cautious about the National Research Fund for Tick-Borne Diseases, Inc. and Shea.
Has the NYC support group checked on this?
Board of Directors
Leo J. Shea III, Ph.D., Chair Serena Sarnoff Benenson Deborah Burnaman Carolin Buttrick, Secretary Sara Newman Clarke Marti Schram Laura Sibert-Cardoza Barbara Walsh
Officers Greg Torski, Treasurer
Research Board
Catherine F. Morrissey, Chair Barbara Goldklang Carl Brenner
Scientific Advisory Board
Mario T. Philipp, Ph.D., Chair Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Chair, Division of Bacteriology and Parasitology Tulane National Primate Research Center Tulane University Health Sciences Center
J. Stephen Dumler, M.D. Division of Medical Microbiology Department of Pathology The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 720 Rutland Avenue Baltimore
Sheila A. Lukehart, Ph.D. Professor of Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Adjunct Professor of Pathobiology, Microbiology, Periodontics University of Washington
Adriana Marques, M.D. Head, Clinical Studies Unit LCID/NIAID
Steven J. Norris, Ph.D. Greer Professor and Vice Chair for Research Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Univ. of Texas Medical School at Houston
2006 Ad Hoc Review Committee
Abdu Azad, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Maryland School of Medicine
Jorge L. Benach, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Center for Infectious Diseases Stony Brook University
Linden Hu, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine Tufts-New England Medical Center
Joseph Piesman, Sc. D. Chief, Lyme Disease Vector Section Division of Vector-borne Infectious Diseases Centers for Disease and Prevention
Ira Schwartz, Ph. D. Professor and Chairman Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology New York Medical College
2005 Ad Hoc Review Committee
Jorge L. Benach, Ph.D. Professor and Director, Center for Infectious Diseases Stony Brook University
Thomas N. Mather, Ph.D. Professor Center for Vector-Borne Disease University of Rhode Island
Ira Schwartz Professor and Chairman Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology New York Medical College
Xuejie Yu, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Pathology and Department of Microbiology and Immunology The University of Texas Medical Branch
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Folks, Please remember that DUMLER is one of the authors listed on the updated IDSA lyme guidelines.
An exerpt From Acorn-Online.com REDDING PILOT Redding: Chronic Lyme disease New guidelines spark controversy Dec 28, 2006
One Wilton-based nonprofit group, the National Research Fund for Tick-Borne Diseases Inc. (NRFTD), has mounted an ongoing effort to make that exploration possible, according to a November article published in The Wilton Bulletin.
The group has raised more than $80,000 for scientific research into Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. It was founded in 1999 to address the complex research questions raised by thousands of patients afflicted with emerging tick-borne diseases, including Lyme disease, relapsing fever borrelia, anaplasmosis, babesiosis, bartonella, and ehrlichiosis.
Dr. Leo J. Shea III, chair of the group's board of directors, said the group's mission is ``to raise funds and deliver them as quickly as possible to scientific researchers who have been carefully screened.''
The group's board is composed of nationally respected scientists who said they have no preconceived ideas about Lyme and other views about tick-borne diseases. An external committee of other scientist-evaluators from prominent medical institutions helps keep the group unbiased, according to Dr. Shea.
** No preconceived idease and bias with Dumler and Schwartz???? hmmmmm
I. Schwartz has authored articles with Wormser and Durland Fish, authors of the IDSA lyme guidelines. Shwartz works at New York Medical College with Wormser, Nadelman, and Dattwyler, all IDSA Lyme guideline authors.
Schwartz's research lab website links to the ALDF.
Schwartz wrote an article in the newspaper saying that the protest against the IDSA guidelines was "misguided".
Need I say more?
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Ahh yes, it is very clear now that Schwartz is not 'biased' in any way. Wrong!!
Here is the letter to the editor Schwartz wrote in Dec 2006.
Lyme guidelines protest misguided
The Journal News White Plains, NY
Lyme guidelines protest misguided
I was dismayed by your Dec. 1(2006) article about a demonstration against the updated Infectious Disease Society of America treatment guidelines for Lyme disease. The article extensively quoted negative comments regarding these guidelines and one of its authors, Dr. Gary Wormser, with minimal context. For the record, Dr. Wormser, chief of Infectious Diseases at New York Medical College and Westchester Medical Center, is an internationally recognized authority in infectious diseases. A simple literature search would have revealed that he co-authored 260 articles in the peer-reviewed medical literature, including 116 papers on various aspects of Lyme disease since 1990.
It is high time that clarity and logic be infused into the discourse regarding Lyme disease. Lyme disease is defined in the medical literature as an ailment caused by infection with a specific bacterium. The infection can only be acquired after a tick bite. By definition, individuals who have never been bitten by a tick, or who have never been infected, cannot be suffering from Lyme disease. This is not meant to diminish the anguish and suffering of those individuals who are experiencing debilitating symptoms. But, we do not do such patients any favors by misdiagnosis or mistreatment. Disease entities are studied and defined by an accepted set of medical criteria. These include carefully designed and rigorously controlled clinical trials that are then disseminated to the medical community by established peer-review and publication in the medical literature. Progress in the prevention and treatment of Lyme disease will not be achieved by misguided public demonstrations.
Ira Schwartz
Valhalla
The writer is professor and chairman of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at New York Medical College.
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We had taken my son to see Drs.Shea & Leventhal upon the recommendations of Dr.J in Ct. I found both to be very understanding of my son's chronic Lyme and neither came across as biased.
They performed a detailed evaluation and produced a comprehensive analysis that was objective and devoid of any of the issues that face Lyme patients today.
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