Front row, left to right: Mark Woolley, LI District Director for Congressman Lee Zeldin; Robert Ross, VP Community & Government Relations, Southampton Hospital; Joann Scalia, Chief of Staff for NY State Senator Kenneth LaValle; Brian Kelly, Suffolk County Tick Control Advisory Committee; and George Dempsey, MD. Back row, left to right: Jay Schneiderman, Suffolk County Legislator; James Tomarken, MD, Commissioner, Suffolk County Department of Health Services; Erin McGintee, MD; Scott Campbell, PhD, Lab Chief, Suffolk County Department of Health Services; Deborah Maile, RN, Director of Infection Prevention, Southampton Hospital; Fredric Weinbaum, MD, CMO, Southampton Hospital; Joseph Quinn, MD; Peter Sartorius, Mayor, Quogue; Fred Thiele, NY State Assemblyman; Robert Chaloner, CEO, Southampton Hospital; Dominick Ninivaggi, Vector Control Superintendent, Suffolk County Department of Health Services; Alexandra Halitsky, MD; Jeff Sander, Mayor, North Haven; Gwynn Schroeder, Aide to Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski; Jason Hann, Aide to Jay Schneiderman; and Nancy McGann, Southampton Village Trustee.
The Medical Advisory Panel of Southampton Hospital’s Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center sponsored a forum on February 13, bringing together elected officials, representatives of the Suffolk County Health Services Department, and physician-experts to begin discussions on a coordinated approach to addressing Lyme and tick-borne disease on Eastern Long Island.
In addition to Lyme disease, tick-born diseases include anaplasmosis, babesiosis, ehrilchiosis, spotted fever and tularemia.
The center includes an advisory panel of doctors and professionals spanning nine different specialties: family practice, internal medicine, infectious disease, allergy, pediatrics, emergency medicine, neurology, psychology and rheumatology.
