The Scum of the Earth
American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc.
P.O. Box 466
Lyme, CT 06371
The American Lyme Disease Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections.
The Foundation plays a key role in providing reliable and scientifically accurate information to the public, medical community and government agencies about tick-borne diseases and their effects on human health and quality of life.
Directors
- Thomas P. Farrell
- Managing Director
- AML Consultants
- New York, NY
- Durland Fish, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Dept. of Epidemiology & Public Health
- Yale University School of Medicine
- Eugene D. Shapiro, M.D.
- Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology
- Yale University School of Medicine
- Red Pfohl
- Institutional Sales
- OTA LLC / Off the Record Research LLC
- Purchase, NY
- Robert A. Proctor III
- Managing Partner
- Oak Hill Consultants LLC
- Bedford Corners, NY
- Gary P. Wormser, M.D.
- Chief of Infectious Disease
- New York Medical College
- Peter Krause, M.D.
- Professor of Pediatrics
- University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Ex Officio
James Handelman
National Scientific Advisors
- Alan G. Barbour, M.D.
- Professor of Medicine
- Department of Microbiology and
- Molecular Genetics
- Univ. of CA at Irvine Med. School
- Stephen Barthold, D.V.M., Ph.D.
- Director of the Center for
- Comparative Medicine
- University of California at Davis
- Durland Fish, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Dept. of Epidemiology & Public Health
- Yale University School of Medicine
- Russell Johnson, Ph.D.
- Professor of Microbiology
- Department of Microbiology
- University of Minnesota
- School of Medicine
- Robert Lane, Ph.D.
- Professor of Entomology
- Division of Insect Biology
- College of Natural Resources
- Univ. of California at Berkeley
- Robert T. Schoen, M.D.
- Clinical Professor of Medicine
- Yale University School of Medicine
- Leonard Sigal, M.D.
- Chief of Rheumatology and Connective
- Tissue Research
- Director of the Lyme Disease Center
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Daniel E. Sonenshine, Ph.D.
- Professor of Biology
- Department of Biological Sciences
- College of Sciences
- Old Dominion University
- Andrew Pachner, M.D.
- Professor of Neurosciences
- Department of Neurology
- Georgetown University
- Allen Steere, M.D.
- Director of Rheumatology
- Massachusetts General Hospital
http://www.aldf.com/about.shtml
Educational Materials To achieve its mission, the ALDF provides an array of brochures, tick ID cards and other materials that contain current information on symptoms, diagnosis and treatment guidelines, prevention strategies, and methods of tick-control. Individuals, schools, physicians' offices, health departments, corporations, and many other organizations may order bulk quantities of these materials for a modest fee.