Columbia University
Lyme & Tick-borne Diseases Center
COLUMBIA Scientific Advisory & Review Board Members

Research Chiefs from Columbia:

• Scott Hammer, MD
  Chief of Infectious Diseases and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
• J. John Mann, MD, PhD.
  Professor of Translational Neuroscience, Director of Research, NYSPI
• Aaron P. Mitchell, PhD.
  Chairman of Microbiology, Professor of Molecular Pathogenesis
• Ronald Van Heertum, MD
  Vice-chair of Radiology and Director of Nuclear Medicine
• Robert Winchester, MD
  Chief, Rheumatology, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, & Pathology

Other Research Faculty from Columbia:

• Carolyn Britton, MD (Neurology)
• Edward Dwyer, MD (Rheumatology)
• Andrew Dwork, MD (Neuropathology)
• Pamela Gallin, MD (Pediatric Ophthalmology)
• Mady Hornig, MD (Epidemiology & Translational Research)
• John Keilp, PhD (Neuropsychology)
• Brian Scully, MD (Infectious Disease)

Leading Scientists from other Universities:

• Jorge Benach, PhD.
  Professor & Director of Center for Infectious Diseases, SUNY Stony Brook
• Diego Cadavid, MD
  Associate Professor of Neurology, UMDNJ
• Claire Fraser, PhD.
  President & Director of the Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD
• Steven Schutzer, MD
  Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ
• Janis Weis, PhD.
  Professor of Pathology, Univ. of Utah

Ex-Officio Member from Columbia

• Gerald Fischbach, MD
  Professor of Pharmacology, former Dean of the Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons and Director of NINDS at NIH