Lyme Ninja Radio - Lyme Disease & Related Health Topics

Lena Prisco moved to Martha’s Vineyard with her partner Arlene in 2007. At first she continued to work as vice president for the pharmaceutical company Paraxel, but soon took a job closer to home as a Lab Technician at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. In 2011 Lena became the Hospital’s Lab Director, where she took steps to bring Lyme Disease testing in-house. In 2011, the lab did 301,580 tests Since then she has expanded the lab to better serve physicians and the people who live on Martha’s Vineyard.

Last year she co-founded the Vineyard Center for Clinical Research, which aims to improve Lyme Disease diagnosis. She also works on expanding the Lyme disease research infrastructure through data collection, trials, urging people to report their cases of Lyme to the CDC.

Jerry Simons graduated with honors in 1993 from Stony Brook’s Health Science Center with a Bachelor of Science degree in Cardio-Respiratory Sciences. He graduated from the Cornell Medical College Physician Assistant Program in 1995. Upon graduation he began to work for Dr. Joseph Burrascano in East Hampton, New York. After Dr. Burrascano retired 11 years later, Jerry began working at The Morrison Center as well as at East Hampton Urgent Care.

While at Dr. Burrascano’s office, Jerry helped launch the ILADS Physician Training Program and was asked to work with the growing Empire State Lyme Association where he gives lectures and visits support groups. Soon after, he was recruited to be featured on a local monthly TV program about tick-borne infections and was asked by CALDA to author the “From the Expert” series for the Lyme Times. He has kept up with the field by attending regular CMEs including ILADS lectures as well as immune system seminars. He is a frequent local, state and national lecturer on medical CME topics.

He has been a lecturer/instructor in the Cornell Medical College PA Program’s Medicine and Physical Diagnosis Classes, has coordinated and taught their intensive surgical courses and intensive clinical skills courses and has won their Top Instructor award three times. He also lectures at Long Island University, Touro University and the Montifore Medical Center Residency.

Jerry Simons graduated with honors in 1993 from Stony Brook’s Health Science Center with a Bachelor of Science degree in Cardio-Respiratory Sciences. He graduated from the Cornell Medical College Physician Assistant Program in 1995. Upon graduation he began to work for Dr. Joseph Burrascano in East Hampton, New York. After Dr. Burrascano retired 11 years later, Jerry began working at The Morrison Center as well as at East Hampton Urgent Care.

While at Dr. Burrascano’s office, Jerry helped launch the ILADS Physician Training Program and was asked to work with the growing Empire State Lyme Association where he gives lectures and visits support groups. Soon after, he was recruited to be featured on a local monthly TV program about tick-borne infections and was asked by CALDA to author the “From the Expert” series for the Lyme Times. He has kept up with the field by attending regular CMEs including ILADS lectures as well as immune system seminars. He is a frequent local, state and national lecturer on medical CME topics.

He has been a lecturer/instructor in the Cornell Medical College PA Program’s Medicine and Physical Diagnosis Classes, has coordinated and taught their intensive surgical courses and intensive clinical skills courses and has won their Top Instructor award three times. He also lectures at Long Island University, Touro University and the Montifore Medical Center Residency.

Logan McCulloch contracted Lyme Disease on a camping trip to Mammoth Cave National Park in 2011. One morning he woke up to find more that 20 tiny deer tick nymphs. It became clear he became infected though he was not properly diagnosed until November. With the resources and information provided by the Lyme disease internet community, he found his way to the nearest Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD) in a neighboring state.

He began intensive treatment that helped him recover “a good part” of his health, though challenges and deficits remained. In response, Logan made a choice that many people might find surprising: to undertake a six-month hike of the Appalachian Trail, in the name of Lyme disease awareness. He began hiking south from Mt. Katadin in July 2013. He sold his home and left his career as an executive at the Red Cross.

During that hike he started the Lyme Warrior Movement, dedicated to Sharing inspirational stories and encouraging collaboration on shared goals and objectives.

McCulloch says, "I believe deeply in the unlimited nature of human potential."

Logan McCulloch contracted Lyme Disease on a camping trip to Mammoth Cave National Park in 2011. One morning he woke up to find more that 20 tiny deer tick nymphs. It became clear he became infected though he was not properly diagnosed until November. With the resources and information provided by the Lyme disease internet community, he found his way to the nearest Lyme Literate Medical Doctor (LLMD) in a neighboring state.

He began intensive treatment that helped him recover “a good part” of his health, though challenges and deficits remained. In response, Logan made a choice that many people might find surprising: to undertake a six-month hike of the Appalachian Trail, in the name of Lyme disease awareness. He began hiking south from Mt. Katadin in July 2013. He sold his home and left his career as an executive at the Red Cross.

During that hike he started the Lyme Warrior Movement, dedicated to Sharing inspirational stories and encouraging collaboration on shared goals and objectives.

McCulloch says, "I believe deeply in the unlimited nature of human potential."

Katina is a graduate of Duke University and The Stillpoint School of Integrative Life Healing. After 5 years of misdiagnosis and 5 more years of treatments, Katina has overcome chronic Lyme disease. She is on a nationwide Lyme awareness campaign with her recovery memoir and guide, “Out of the Woods; Healing Lyme Disease – Body, Mind & Spirit,” an award finalist for 2011 Best Book in Health with USA Book News and winner of “50 Authors You Should be Reading” by the Authors Show. She is was asked to host a live weekly radio show, with a 300 station worldwide syndicate, “Lyme Light Radio with Katina Makris”, which launched in June 2013.

She is currently a board member of Be Tick Ready, a Lyme education group, the host of "Lyme-Light Radio with Katina” on WBLQ 1230 AM, Westerly, RI, which is partnered with the Dr. Pat Show. She also works as a Spiritual healer and Lyme disease counselor.

Katina is a graduate of Duke University and The Stillpoint School of Integrative Life Healing. After 5 years of misdiagnosis and 5 more years of treatments, Katina has overcome chronic Lyme disease. She is on a nationwide Lyme awareness campaign with her recovery memoir and guide, “Out of the Woods; Healing Lyme Disease – Body, Mind & Spirit,” an award finalist for 2011 Best Book in Health with USA Book News and winner of “50 Authors You Should be Reading” by the Authors Show. She is was asked to host a live weekly radio show, with a 300 station worldwide syndicate, “Lyme Light Radio with Katina Makris”, which launched in June 2013.

She is currently a board member of Be Tick Ready, a Lyme education group, the host of "Lyme-Light Radio with Katina” on WBLQ 1230 AM, Westerly, RI, which is partnered with the Dr. Pat Show. She also works as a Spiritual healer and Lyme disease counselor.

Dr. Matthew Edlund is an internationally recognized expert on rest, biological clocks, performance, and sleep. His previous books include “The Body Clock Advantage”, “Designed to Last”, and “Psychological Time and Mental Illness.” His new book, “The Power of Rest”, shows that rest is a skill that rebuilds, renews, and rewires mind and body, and can increase productivity, health and pleasure.

He has worked as an Ivy League medical school professor, syndicated newspaper health columnist, hospital medical director, chief of a sleep lab, and vice president of an Asian Art museum. He trained in internal medicine at University of California, San Diego and Massachusetts General Hospital; in occupational and public health at the Harvard School of Public Health; in sleep medicine at Brown; and in psychiatry at N.Y.U. – Bellevue.

Dr. Edlund is currently the director of the Center for Circadian Medicine

Dr. Matthew Edlund is an internationally recognized expert on rest, biological clocks, performance, and sleep. His previous books include “The Body Clock Advantage”, “Designed to Last”, and “Psychological Time and Mental Illness.” His new book, “The Power of Rest”, shows that rest is a skill that rebuilds, renews, and rewires mind and body, and can increase productivity, health and pleasure.

He has worked as an Ivy League medical school professor, syndicated newspaper health columnist, hospital medical director, chief of a sleep lab, and vice president of an Asian Art museum. He trained in internal medicine at University of California, San Diego and Massachusetts General Hospital; in occupational and public health at the Harvard School of Public Health; in sleep medicine at Brown; and in psychiatry at N.Y.U. – Bellevue.

Dr. Edlund is currently the director of the Center for Circadian Medicine

Dr. Donna Embree is the Director of the International College of BioEnergetic Medicine and President of BioEnergetic Resources. Her 20 years of clinical experience helped her create a system for creating sustainable results in healing chronic illness.

Other practitioner became aware of her success in treating patients, and her role as a teacher and mentor to these people inspired her to create the International College of BioEnergetic Medicine, as well as a wide and diverse curriculum that provides education to naturopaths, chiropractors, medical doctors, and practitioners of oriental medicine. She has spent the past nine years as a consultant to health care providers, where she focuses on assisting them to provide individualized solutions for their patients in the context of the inherent design and wisdom of the human body.