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ILADEF Training Programs

Overview

Overview

ILADEF offers two Training Programs tailored to participant’s medical degree/licensure:

  • ILADEF Physician Training Program
  • ILADEF Allied Healthcare Training Program

These programs are a one-on-one mentorship designed to provide qualified medical professionals with the tools to diagnose and treat chronic Lyme and other tick-borne disease patients.

ILADEF training programs provide a foundation in the evidence-based treatment of Lyme and associated diseases, and directly addresses commonly encountered diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.

Participants learn how to evaluate and treat patients for Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases in a real-world setting. This environment allows physicians to appreciate diverse and often subtle presentations of tick-borne disease.

Participants will return to practice with:

  • Enhanced clinical skills
  • An integrated, nuanced approach to directing treatment
  • Confidence in diagnosis and treatment

The program is appropriate for, and tailored to meet, the educational needs of its participants, regardless of level of current expertise.

Timeline to complete program – 6 months total:

  • From application date trainee has 3 months to schedule training.
  • Once training is scheduled trainee has 3 months to complete training.

Due to the information you will be learning, it is recommended that the majority of the training be done in-person with virtual components. Please email contact@ilads.org if you wish to participate in the program virtually.

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Curriculum

Curriculum

The ILADEF Physician and Allied Healthcare Training Programs are available as a combination of in-person and virtual and consists of the following curriculum:

  • At least complete 20 hours 1:1 shadowing with the training physician. This may include telehealth cases or virtual cases.
  • Teacher supervises at least 5 cases with the Trainee – at least 1-hour session per case.
  • Another 4 hours to review questions and answers – complete checklist.
  • Shadow- zoom interviews – HIPAA compliant.
  • Standard case presentations which may come from physician training program.
  • Trainees are responsible for presenting one clinical case and working through it with the Preceptor. The Trainee will submit a case assessment and plan to the training physician before the training is completed.
  • Review and understand each topic within the ILADS curriculum checklist.
  • Trainee completes Trainee online program evaluation form.
Criteria/Registration

Criteria/Registration

Physician Training Program Criteria

  • MD, DO, ND, NP degree
  • Has full antibiotic prescribing rights
  • Actively seeing Lyme patients
  • Completed the ILADS Vector-Borne Illness Fundamentals Program and passed associated quiz
    • Click here to learn more about Vector-Borne Illness Fundamentals
  • Pledge to use the knowledge gained during the mentorship to treat tick-borne illnesses in one’s clinical practice.

Allied Healthcare Training Program Criteria

  • NP, PA or other equivalent degree
  • Does not have independent antibiotic prescribing rights (i.e. Works with collaborating physician for prescription writing)
  • Completed the ILADS Vector-Borne Illness Fundamentals Program and passed associated quiz
    • Click here to learn more about Vector-Borne Illness Fundamentals
  • Pledge to use the knowledge gained during the mentorship to treat tick-borne illnesses in one’s clinical practice.

Registration Fee

  • $3,000 – ILADS Members
  • $5,000 – Non-Members

NOTE: The registration fee will be non-refundable and paid in advance to ILADEF before consideration for training.  If you are not accepted to the program your registration fee minus a $50 processing fee will be refunded.

Grants Available: If you need financial assistance, please complete the grant application form.

Training Program Application Process:

  1. Complete appropriate online application (below).
  2. Pay the registration fee.
  3. Your application and documentation must be reviewed and approved by the ILADEF Board of Directors prior to placement. Typically, this can take 1-2 months.
  4. If you have any questions, please email contact@ilads.org.
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Preceptors

Preceptors

Please click on the Preceptor's name below to review their bio. We are currently accepting applications for Preceptors from ILADS members. Please review the criteria and apply online.

Steven J. Bock, MD

Steven J. Bock, MD
Rhinebeck, NY

Alexis Chesney ND

Alexis Chesney, ND
Westminster, VT

Eboni Cornish, MD

Eboni Cornish, MD
Reston, VA

Christine L Green, MD, AAFP

Christine L. Green, MD
Mountain View, CA

Steven Harris, MD

Steven Harris, MD
Foster City, CA

Casey Kelley, MD

Casey Kelley, MD
Chicago, IL

Amy Offutt, MD

Amy Offutt, MD
Marble Falls, TX

Steven J. Bock, MD

Steven Bock, M.D. has been practicing integrative medicine for over 35 years. He attended New York Medical College and received his M.D. in 1971. He was Board Certified in Family Practice in 1977 and is certified in Acupuncture. Dr. Bock was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Rhinebeck Health Center. He is a Diplomate of the American College of Family Practice, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Acupuncture and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. Dr. Bock’s medical practice merges traditional medicine with alternative and complementary medicine, combining the modalities of acupuncture, functional and nutritional medicine, homeopathy, herbal medicine and environmental medicine into an integrated medical model for optimal wellness.

Alexis Chesney, ND

Alexis Chesney ND, LAc is a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist specializing in the treatment of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. Dr. Chesney earned a Masters in Science in acupuncture from the University of Bridgeport Acupuncture Institute and a doctorate in naturopathic medicine from the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine, in Connecticut. She works with patients full-time at the integrative non-profit Sojourns Community Health Clinic in Westminster, Vermont and has a small private practice in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is a member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP), Vermont Association of Naturopathic Physicians (VANP), International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS) and a founding full member of the International Society for Environmentally Acquired Illness (ISEAI).  Dr. Chesney serves on the Board of Directors and as the Naturopathic Medicine Committee Chair for the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS). She is the author of Preventing Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases released through Storey Publishing, and speaks on tick-borne diseases at conferences and in the media.

Eboni Cornish, MD

Dr. Cornish graduated from Brown University undergraduate with honors and Brown University Medical School, and completed her family medicine residency at Georgetown University. In 2003, as a Howard Hughes Medical Fellow, Dr. Cornish conducted translational research at the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH, where she apprenticed in the laboratory of Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., the current Director of NIH and leader of the Human Genome Project.

She is currently a member of the American College for Advancement in Medicine and the Institute of Functional Medicine, and serves as Board Member of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society Educational Foundation, where she is responsible for the development and expansion of the organization’s Physician Training Program. She is also on the physician advisory board of the Charles E. Holman Foundation for the newly emerging Morgellons Disease, and is an expert in the treatment of chronic conditions such as Lyme Disease, PANDAS/PANS, Chronic Fatigue, Genetic Methylation Disorders, Autoimmune Diseases, Mold Illness/Mycotoxosis, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, and Fibromyalgia, among others.

Magdalena A Cubala-Kucharska, MD, PhD

Medical doctor and researcher, specializing in connection between Autism Spectrum Disorder and Lyme Borreliosis. Director of Arcana Institute of Integrative Medicine, Piaseczno, Poland. Experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the medical practice industry. Skilled in Prevention, Healthcare, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Strategic Planning, and Medicine. Strong healthcare services professional with a PhD focused in Allergology, Immunology from Medical University of Łódź.

Christine L Green, MD

Dr. Green practices family and integrated medicine in Mountain View and San Francisco, California.   She is committed to direct patient care and the practice of patient- centered, evidence-based medicine. Dr. Green's future aspirations are to develop clinical research to explore treatment options for those with chronic infectious disease.

Dr. Green has been the director of education for the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS) and led the group that created the curriculum for ILADS’ Fundamentals of Tick Borne Disease course.  Dr. Green served on the ILADS board for six years and currently serves on the board of  LDo (Lyme Disease dot org).   She sits on the scientific advisory board for Bay Area Lyme Foundation and the Dean Center for Tick Borne Illness Treatment, Rehabilitation and Recovery at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston.

Steven Harris, MD

Steven Harris, M.D. has been in private practice since 2001. Dr Harris is a medical doctor (MD), board certified in Family Practice. His private practice was opened as a sole proprietorship until 2006, after which he formed a California medical corporation, Pacific Frontier Medical, Inc.

Since 2001 Dr Harris has focused his practice on the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne co-infections. In his approach to Lyme disease he incorporates strategies found in conventional, functional and complimentary medicine. He believes that there are many effective treatments available to those with chronic and persistent Lyme.

Dr Harris has taken a leadership role in lymedisease.org (formerly CALDA -The California Lyme disease Association), a research, patient advocate group which has been largely responsible for spearheading favorable legislation protecting patients rights, expanding Lyme disease awareness and fostering continued public health education. Dr Harris is also an active member of ILADS (The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society). This is a professional medical society of physicians and scientists which has become the authority on effective treatment for chronic Lyme disease.

Charles Ray Jones, MD

Dr. Jones received his MD in 1962 from New York Medical College, interned in pediatrics at St. Luke's Medical Center in New York City, and later became chief resident there. He went on to become attending physician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Jones moved to Hamden, CT, to practice pediatrics in the late 1960s. Within a few months after arriving, he noticed clusters of patients diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and discovered that many of these patients actually had Lyme disease. Since then, Dr. Jones has treated more than 10,000 children for Lyme disease from virtually every state and from around the world.

Dr. Jones is a past recipient of ILADEF’s Pioneer in Lyme Award.

Casey Kelley, MD

Dr. Casey Kelley became interested in Integrative Medicine early in her education when she began asking questions about health and healing that conventional medicine was unable to answer. She began seeking like-minded practitioners and started studying Functional Medicine, which had developed into one of the most important areas of Integrative Medicine. She has devoted her career to treating chronic illness from a Functional Medicine approach to help people regain their health.

Dr. Kelley graduated from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed her residency in Family Medicine at St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago. She is a member of the Institute of Functional Medicine, a director on the board of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, and is a founding member of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine. She is a dual board-certified physician in Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine.

Amy Offutt, MD

Dr. Offutt is the medical director and co-owner of Heart & Soul Integrative Health and Yoga which she co-founded with her husband, Brad, in 2007, located in Marble Falls, Texas. Her first seven years of practice were focused on rural family medicine and obstetrics after which she transitioned to approach the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases using integrative medicine. She completed medical school at The University ofTexas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio and completed a residency in Family Medicine at Christus Health. She has completed a fellowship with the American Academy of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and had a Master’s Degree in Integrative Medicine from George Washington University.