Headed by Gary P. Wormser, M.D., professor of medicine and of pharmacology, who also directs the Lyme Disease Diagnostic Center at the College and at Westchester Medical Center, the Division of Infectious Diseases was the first to recognize and prove the existence in New York State of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), another potentially more serious tick-borne infection that can be transmitted alone or in tandem with Lyme.
Robert Nadelman, M.D., professor of medicine, has worked closely with Dr. Wormser in numerous studies of the clinical and laboratory manifestations of tick-borne diseases, most particularly Lyme disease. He has a special interest in investigating the clinical manifestations and the role of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent responsible for Lyme, in variability in patients with recurrent episodes of early Lyme disease.
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