Robert Bransfield, MD

{ President }

Robert C. Bransfield, MD, DFAPA, is in the private practice of psychiatry in Red Bank, NJ; the Associate Director of Psychiatry and Chairman of Psychiatric Quality Assurance at the Riverview Medical Center; Vice President of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association; Vice Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Managed Care Committee and is a member of many medical societies and advocacy organizations. Dr Bransfield is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, certified in psychopharmacology by the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He earned his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC and completed a residency in psychiatry at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. Dr. Bransfield has an interest in healthcare policy and the association between infections and mental illness. He has authored and co-authored a number of publications in peer-reviewed literature, other medical publications, and books; has appeared on network and regional television and radio.

David Martz, MD

{ President Elect}

Dr. David Martz is a community board-certified physician who has practiced Internal Medicine-Hematology-Oncology for 30 years (1970-2000). He trained in Internal Medicine and Hematology at Washington University and Stanford University after getting his MD at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) in 1965.

He has been an assistant professor of clinical medicine at UCHSC for over 20 years and a member of the admissions committee for over 10 years. He is a Past President of the Colorado Medical Society (CMS), and served several years on the boards of CMS, the El Paso County Medical Society, Rocky Mountain HMO, and the Colorado Physicians Network.

As a Coloradoan, his professional Lyme Disease experience was quite limited until April, 2003, when he acquired ALS-Motor Neuron Disease (MND), which was accompanied by Lyme-like systemic symptoms. His subsequent underlying Lyme diagnosis, treatment, and remarkable response is detailed in a 2006 Acta Neurologica Scandanavia publication.

He devoted the next 2 1/2 years to the clinical study of extended antibiotic treatment for ALS-Motor Neuron Disease (90+ patients), as well as "Chronic Lyme Patients" (about 800 more). The findings are currently being prepared for formal publication.

He was elected to the ILADS Board in 2009, and is currently the 2009-2011 President-Elect in anticipation of ILADS presidency beginning in 2011.

Leo J. Shea, III, PhD

{ Vice President }

Leo J. Shea III, Ph.D. is Clinical Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Rusk Institute, a division of the New York University Langone Medical Center. Prior to his present work with tick-borne and immunological disorders, he was Assistant Director of the NYU Brain Injury Day Treatment Program. Apart from his academic and clinical responsibilities at NYU Langone Medical Center, Dr. Shea is also President of Neuropsychological Evaluation and Treatment Services, P.C. with offices in New York City and Quincy, Massachusetts. His practice focuses on tick-borne diseases, traumatic brain injury, chronic illness, trauma and disaster management and provides cognitive remediation and psychotherapy to individuals and families. Dr. Shea has served as an organizational consultant to national and international corporations on human resources, administrative and executive training and development, trauma response and health care issues. His clients have included both political and public institutions such as the United Nations Development Program.

Lorraine Johnson

{ Secretary }

Lorraine Johnson earned her JD at Loyola Law School and her MBA at USC. She has served as general counsel for public mid-sized entertainment companies, including Telepictures, Lorimar, and Imagine Films. She also served as Chief Operating Officer at Solomon International Entertainment, a small film production and distribution programming company. She currently serves as the executive director of the California Lyme Disease Assn., as a member of the Board of Directors of International and Lyme Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), and as a member of the advisory board of the national Lyme Disease Association. She has published widely on the topic of health care medico-legal-ethics, addressed state legislators, participated in the Canadian government consensus panel, and met with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Joseph Jemsek, MD

{ Treasurer }

Joseph G Jemsek MD, FACP, is Board Certified in Infectious Diseases. He began his clinical practice in Charlotte NC where he diagnosed the first case of AIDS in 1983 and subsequently devoted his practice to HIV care until 2006, establishing one of the largest private practices in the country while lecturing and publishing widely. For almost a decade in his early career he also functioned as the first hospital epidemiologist in a private institution and was the designated infectious disease consultant for the Carolinas Medical Center heart transplant program. Dr. Jemsek is the namesake for the destination practice, the Jemsek Specialty Clinic, which operates out of Fort Mill, South Carolina and which is exclusively devoted to the care of patients with Lyme Borreliosis Complex. For more information on the career and interests of Dr. Jemsek, please consult his website at www.jemsekspecialty.com.

Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH

{ Immediate Past President }

Dr. Daniel Cameron graduated from the University of Minnesota followed by residencies at Beth Israel Medical Center and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He works in a private medical practice in Mt. Kisco, New York. He has been a pioneer in Lyme disease as an author of practice guidelines, analytic reviews, and clinical trials. Dr. Cameron is widely recognized for conducting epidemiologic research while practicing medicine.

Andrea Gaito, MD

Patients travel from all over the country to consult with Dr. Andrea Gaito, a respected rheumatologis whose specialty is state-of-the-art, successful treatment of Lyme disease. Borad certified in both internal medicine and rheumatology, she also focuses on treating rheumatoid arthritis and related disease. With a warm, caring manner and optimistic approach, Dr. Gaito believes in the importance of truly listening to her patients as well as providing them with the benefits of the most current information, treatments, and technologies available for both rheumatoid arthritis and Lyme disease.

Actively involved in clinical research, Dr. Gaito's work has appeared in many prestigious medical publications. She is co-founder and past president of the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society and currently serves on the organization's board of directors. Her television appearances include a PBS series on Lyme disease, and she has been quoted in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, and other leading publications.

Steven Phillips, MD

Raphael Stricker, MD

Dr. Stricker received his medical degree and training in Internal Medicine at Columbia University in New York. He did subspecialty training in Hematology/Oncology at the University of California San Francisco, and supplemental training in Immunology and Immunotherapy at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. He is currently the Medical Director of Union Square Medical Associates, a multispecialty medical practice in San Francisco (Website: www.usmamed.com).

Judy Leventhal, PhD

Richard Horowitz, MD

{ President }

Dr Richard Horowitz is President of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation (ILADEF), and he is a founding board member of ILADS. He is a board certified internist and medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center in Hyde Park, N.Y., an integrative medical center which specializes in the treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease and other tick-borne disorders. He has treated over 11,000 Chronic Lyme patients in the last 20 years, and has published on the role of co-infections and toxins in Chronic Lyme Borreliosis. He was awarded the Humanitarian of the Year award by the Turn the Corner Foundation for his dedication and research in the treatment of Lyme Disease.

Nick Harris, PhD

{ Treasurer }

Dr. Nick Harris, a board certified immunologist, is currently the President and CEO of IGeneX Laboratory, which he founded in 1991. His undergraduate training was at the Univ. of Wisconsin and graduate training at the Medical Center, Univ. of Illinois, in Chicago. Following a postdoctoral fellowship in transplantation immunology at the Univ. of Minnesota, he became an Associate Professor of Surgery and Biochemistry at the Univ. of Texas. He left academia to head the immunology department at Bioscience Laboratories in Los Angeles, then joined 3M Diagnostic Systems as Technical Director. Dr. Harris has three patents, over 100 formal publications in immunology and Lyme disease, and three book chapters. He helped found ILADS in 1999 and is an active member of numerous societies. He is on the Board of Directors of CALDA and of the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society.

Joseph Jemsek, MD

{ Secretary }

Joseph G Jemsek MD, FACP, is Board Certified in Infectious Diseases. He began his clinical practice in Charlotte NC where he diagnosed the first case of AIDS in 1983 and subsequently devoted his practice to HIV care until 2006, establishing one of the largest private practices in the country while lecturing and publishing widely. For almost a decade in his early career he also functioned as the first hospital epidemiologist in a private institution and was the designated infectious disease consultant for the Carolinas Medical Center heart transplant program. Dr. Jemsek is the namesake for the destination practice, the Jemsek Specialty Clinic, which operates out of Fort Mill, South Carolina and which is exclusively devoted to the care of patients with Lyme Borreliosis Complex. For more information on the career and interests of Dr. Jemsek, please consult his website at www.jemsekspecialty.com.

Joseph Burrascano, Jr., MD

Raphael Stricker, MD

Dr. Stricker received his medical degree and training in Internal Medicine at Columbia University in New York. He did subspecialty training in Hematology/Oncology at the University of California San Francisco, and supplemental training in Immunology and Immunotherapy at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. He is currently the Medical Director of Union Square Medical Associates, a multispecialty medical practice in San Francisco (Website: www.usmamed.com).

Robert Bransfield, MD

Robert C. Bransfield, MD, DFAPA, is in the private practice of psychiatry in Red Bank, NJ; the Associate Director of Psychiatry and Chairman of Psychiatric Quality Assurance at the Riverview Medical Center; Vice President of the New Jersey Psychiatric Association; Vice Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Managed Care Committee and is a member of many medical societies and advocacy organizations. Dr Bransfield is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, certified in psychopharmacology by the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He earned his medical degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC and completed a residency in psychiatry at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. Dr. Bransfield has an interest in healthcare policy and the association between infections and mental illness. He has authored and co-authored a number of publications in peer-reviewed literature, other medical publications, and books; has appeared on network and regional television and radio.

Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH

Dr. Daniel Cameron graduated from the University of Minnesota followed by residencies at Beth Israel Medical Center and Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He works in a private medical practice in Mt. Kisco, New York. He has been a pioneer in Lyme disease as an author of practice guidelines, analytic reviews, and clinical trials. Dr. Cameron is widely recognized for conducting epidemiologic research while practicing medicine.