Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association (COTBDAA)

Center for Lyme Action Congressional Series
2025-05-06 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Dirksen Senate Office Building, G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, 20002, United States
Share this content:Lyme, Alpha-gal Syndrome, and other tick-borne diseases continue to pose serious public health challenges across the United States. Accurate and timely diagnostics are critical for effective treatment and prevention of long-term illness. This event will feature expert speakers who will provide key insights into the current state of diagnostic testing, emerging technologies, and policy opportunities to improve patient outcomes.
Event Details:
Topic: The Future of Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Diagnostics
Date: May 21, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM ET – 7:30 PM ET
Location: Senate Dirksen Office Building G50
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Register to Meet with Representatives (Optional)
Agenda:

Welcome
Opening Remarks by U.S. Senator Susan Collins (Maine)
Keynote: State of Lyme Disease Diagnostics Research – Nicole Bell, CEO Galaxy Diagnostics
Expert Panel: LymeX Phase IV finalists
Brandon Jutras, PhD, Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Mark Junewicz, Founder and CEO, Gnomx
Mary Ann Communale, EdD, MS, Associate Professor, Drexel University College of Medicine
Nicole Bell, CEO, Galaxy Diagnostics
Reception 6:30 – 7:30

This briefing will provide valuable information for policy staff working on health, science, appropriations, or related issues. Light refreshments will be provided.

NASEM: Charting a Path Toward New Treatments for Lyme Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses - Report Launch Webinar
2025-05-09 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom Virtual Event
Share this content:Please join us for a webinar to learn about this new National Academies’ report, Charting a Path Toward New Treatments for Lyme Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses, on Friday, May 9, 2025. Members of the report authoring committee will discuss its key messages and recommendations and will answer questions from the audience about the report.

SmallTown for the Cause
2025-09-18 - 2025-09-20 | Riverside Park-Salida, CO, 170 E Sackett Ave., Salida, 81201, United States
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MUSIC. YOGA. COMMUNITY.
Smalltown for the Cause blends ethereal, soulful, and folk-driven music from world-renowned artists with rejuvenating yoga sessions led by top instructors. Engaging workshops offer everything from songwriting and meditation to instrument-making and regenerative farming, creating a weekend of music, movement, creativity, and growth.
Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association is one of the grateful “causes” to be benefitting from this event!
Join us SEPTEMBER 19 & 20, 2025 (Early Camping September 18)…we will be there all weekend with an education tent filled with resources to keep you and your family safe from ticks and the diseases they can cause with a single bite. Stop by and see us for educational resources, prevention tools, and fantastic giveaways from our supportive Community Partners. A single bite can change a life!
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The Quiet Epidemic - A Documentary About Lyme Disease
2025-10-18 18:00 - 21:30 | Canyon Theater, Main Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 80302, United States
Share this content:Please join us for a screening of the award-winning Lyme documentary The Quiet Epidemic. The film will be followed by a short refreshment break, then a discussion and Q&A with Lyme experts.
This event is will be held at the the Boulder Public Library and hosted by Global Lyme Alliance Ambassador, Janelle Stover and Colorado Tick-Borne Disease Awareness Association. Please register with the QR code on flyer to attend this free event!
Runtime: 1h 52m
Please use the North Side Canyon Entrance if arriving after 5:00 p.m. Parking is available in both the Canyon and Arapahoe lots. To reach the theater from the Arapahoe lot, you can cross the creek using the exterior bridge.

Moonlight Monday Fundraiser
2026-05-11 | Moonlight Pizza and BrewPub, 242 F St, Salida, CO, 81201, United States
Share this content:From September to May, every other Monday, Moonlight Pizza and Brewpub in Salida, CO donates 10% of their sales to support the people, causes, and initiatives working to make a real difference. And to extend that impact, for two weeks following each Moonlight Monday, customers can continue to contribute and show their support by adding donations directly to their checks. At Moonlight Pizza & Brewpub, they believe that a meal can do more than just fill your belly—it can change lives. That’s why they partner with local non-profit organizations like ours to make a lasting impact in our community. We’re super excited to announce that this year Moonlight has partnered with Collegiate Peaks Bank for the 2026 Moonlight Mondays! This partnership means they are able to make an even bigger impact for organizations like ours, and we’re thrilled to have their support! Come see us at Moonlight between 5:00pm and 7:00 pm for prevention resources and materials, as well as some great giveaways from our community partners that support our education and prevention activities! Learn more!

Dr. Horowitz Presentation
2026-05-12 17:30 | Zoom Virtual Event
Share this content:Healing Chronic Illness / Tick-Borne Diseases
& Preventing Future Cognitive Decline

FREE – Register TODAY – Click Here

DESCRIPTION:
Tick‑borne diseases (TBD) are showing up everywhere these days — so much so that experts now estimate about one in seven people worldwide have been affected. At the same time, dementia rates keep climbing. A 2025 study even suggested that adults over 55 now face roughly a 42% lifetime risk. Those numbers can feel overwhelming, but they also raise an important question: what’s driving all of this?
Researchers now understand that dementia usually isn’t caused by just one thing. It’s often the result of many different factors working together over time. Interestingly, the same 16 MSIDS (Multiple Systemic Infectious Disease Syndrome) factors linked to chronic Lyme disease and long COVID have also been connected to Alzheimer’s and other forms of cognitive decline.
This talk will break down what that means in everyday language. We’ll look at how chronic Lyme disease can involve a mix of overlapping issues, how infections like Lyme may play a role in long‑term brain health, and what current research is showing about dapsone combination therapy. Early studies suggest it may help with symptoms like fatigue, pain, and cognitive challenges, and may also help calm inflammation in the brain — something researchers believe could contribute to future memory problems.
This event will be available via Zoom to the first 1,000 viewers, with overflow viewers able to watch via livestream on the Lymedisease.org Facebook page.

AGENDA:
Virtual Zoom Event, Tuesday, May 12
FREE
ET 7:30 – 8:15 pm Presentation
8:15 – 8:30 pm Q&A
CT 6:30 – 7:15 pm Presentation
7:15 – 7:30 pm Q&A
MT 5:30-6:15 pm Presentation
6:15-6:30 pm Q&A
PT 4:30 – 5:15 pm Presentation
5:15 – 5:30 pm Q&A

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DR. HOROWITZ: Medical Detective
Explore insights on Lyme disease, chronic illness, co-infections, dementia, and tick-borne diseases.
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Greater Kansas City Lyme Association
Minnesota Lyme Association

DR. HOROWITZ BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Richard Horowitz is a board-certified internist and the medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, an integrative medical center which combines both mainstream and integrative approaches in the treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne disorders. He has treated over 13,000 Lyme and tick-borne disease patients in the last 41 years, with patients coming from all over the US, Canada, and Europe to his clinic. He is former Assistant Director of Medicine of Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and is one of the founding members and past president elect of ILADS, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society. He is also past president of the ILADEF, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education of health care professionals on tick-borne diseases. Dr Horowitz has trained hundreds of healthcare providers in diagnosing and caring for patients with treatment-resistant tick-borne disorders and was previously awarded the Humanitarian of the Year award by the Turn the Corner Foundation as well as awards from Project Lyme for his treatment of Lyme Disease. He has dedicated his life to helping those stricken with this devastating illness.
He is the author of two best-selling books on Lyme disease, Why Can’t I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease (2013, St Martin’s Press, NY Times Best Seller), and How Can I Get Better? An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme and Chronic Disease (2017, St Martin’s Press, National bestseller). These books incorporate recent scientific advances and explain in detail how healthcare providers can effectively diagnose and treat resistant chronic illness. He has been a member of the Advisory Panel, Lyme disease Educational Initiative, at Harvard Medical School from 2021-2023 and in addition, he has co-authored peer-reviewed Lyme guidelines. Dr Horowitz was a member of the HHS Tick-borne Disease Working Group and Co-chair of the “Other Tick-borne Diseases and Coinfections” subcommittee from 2017-2019 which provided recommendations to Congress to help the US improve the care of those suffering with tick-borne disorders. He also served as a member of the HHS Babesia and Tick-borne Pathogen Subcommittee and has recently served as a member of the NYS Department of Health Tick-borne disease Working Group from 2021-2024.
Finally, Dr Horowitz recently published several scientific articles on short-term oral antibiotic and integrative protocols that have been highly effective in the treatment of chronic Lyme disease/PTLDS and associated co-infections (dapsone combination therapy and the MSIDS model), as well as classical and integrative solutions for COVID-19. These have been effective in helping those with acute and chronic illness (see www.cangetbetter.com). He is the process of applying for an NIH grant to head up a multicenter, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial on the safety and efficacy of dapsone combination therapy for the treatment of chronic Lyme disease to prove to the world that we do have answers in the middle of this spreading global epidemic. In that regard, he is also in the process of working on a digital app with researchers from the University of California Irvine to further improve the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and associated illness to help those afflicted with this debilitating illness.
Dr H released his first novel, Starseed R/evolution, ‘The Awakening’ a cli-fi (science fiction/climate change) novel in March of 2022, providing some unique solutions and hope for our present climate crisis (see https://starseed-revolution.com/ ) and he will be releasing his third science book on comprehensive answers for chronic disease late in 2026 through Simon and Schuster. His new science book called ‘Ending Chronic Illness: A Revolutionary New Program to Reverse Inflammation and Heal Persistent Disease’ will provide groundbreaking approaches to a broad range of chronic diseases. After a one year intensive dive into the scientific literature, Dr H discovered that the 16 point MSIDS model that he pioneered for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic Lyme disease also applies to most chronic diseases affecting humanity which are causing suffering and disability. Ending Chronic Illness will provide innovative scientific solutions for both the prevention and treatment of diseases including but not limited to ADD/ADHD, Autism, Alzheimer’s disease, allergies and asthma, the 3 B’s (Borrelia, Babesia, Bartonella), cardiovascular disease, cancer, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/M.E., digestive disorders, environmental toxicity, Fibromyalgia, hormonal, mood and pain disorders as well as acute and chronic viral infections. Since over 1 billion people worldwide and roughly half of the US now suffer with at least one chronic disease, ‘Ending Chronic Illness’ is the book that the world has been waiting for. For more information, please see: www.endingchronicillness.com and www.cangetbetter.com
