JOINT HEARING
Senate Aging and Youth Committee AND Senate Health and Human Services Committee
Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 9:30 a.m.
Senate Majority Caucus Room
Lyme Disease Task Force Report
9:30 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. – Opening Remarks – Committee Chairs
- Sen. Michele Brooks, Aging & Youth Committee
- Sen. Lisa Baker, Health & Human Services Committee
9:40 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. – Panel I
- Julia Wagner, MBA, PhD pending, President, PA Lyme Resource Network, Member of Act 83 of 2014 Lyme Disease Task Force
- Dr. John Goldman, Internist and Infectious Disease Specialist, UPMC Pinnacle Harrisburg, Member of Act 83 of 2014 Lyme Disease Task Force
10:10 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. – Panel II
- Nicole Chinnici, Forensic Scientist/Northeast Wildlife DNA Laboratory, East Stroudsburg University
- Erika Machtinger, PhD, CWB, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Entomology, Penn State University, Dept. of Entomology
- Doug Fearn, President, Lyme Disease Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania
10:40 a.m. – 11:05 a.m. – Panel III
- Dr. Loren K. Robinson, Deputy Secretary for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention, Department of Health
- Dr. Rachel Levine, Acting Secretary, Department of Health
- Sara Nicholas, Ex. Policy Specialist, Office of Policy & Planning, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
11:05 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Panel IV
- Attorney John Klemeyer, Pike County Tick Borne Diseases Task Force
- Jennifer Intelicato-Young, PA State University, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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