Tick Talk 2025

Tick Talk 2025

  • ALL AGES

Everything you need to know about tick borne illness - prevention, what to do if you are bitten, current treatments and the latest research.

By Martha's Vineyard Medical

Date and time

Location

Katherine Cornell Theater

54 Spring Street Vineyard Haven, MA 02568

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event.

Agenda

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM

A Brief Overview

Gerry Yukevich

Gerry Yukevich has been providing primary and urgent care to patients on MV since 1995 and has probably treated more patients with tick borne disease and allergy than any other doc on the Island. Ger...

9:10 AM - 9:40 AM

TBIs of the Vineyard

Aubrey Ryan

Ed Caldwell

Aubrey is a registered PA and works in the ER at MV Hospital where she sees patients with tick bites and tick borne disease and allergy on a daily basis. Ed is an ENT and allergist in West Tisbury w...

9:40 AM - 10:25 AM

Panel Discussion: Diagnosing and Treating TBIs

Gerry Yukevich

Kathleen Koehler

Bill Tsikitas

Kelley Ellsworth

Gerry, Kathleen, Bill and Kelley all practice at Martha's Vineyard Medical, where they provide primary and urgent care to Island residents and visitors. They are widely considered to be the finest p...

10:25 AM - 11:05 AM

Preventing Tick Bites

Patrick Roden-Reynolds

Paul Elias

Patrick runs the MV Tick Program and speaks frequently about ticks and preventing tick borne illness. Paul is a field biologist and the founder of Ticktogs, a new product designed to offer everyone ...

11:05 AM - 11:20 AM

TBIs and Pets

Jake Tedaldi

Jake is the founder and owner of Vetcall, a veterinary clinic that provides house calls for all pets. He has deep experience treating pets with tick borne disease.

11:20 AM - 11:50 AM

Personal Stories: Chronic Lyme Disease and Alpha-gal

Jo Marie Solet

Georgi Prevosti

Jo is Harvard Medical School professor and Chappy summer resident who contracted Alpha-gal in 2023 and will relate her experiences navigating through life in an Alpha-gal ignorant world. Georgi contr...

11:50 AM - 12:30 PM

The Latest - Vaccines, culling deer and more

Sam Telford

Dick Johnson

Isobel Ronai

Sam is a professor at Tufts and is one of the world's most respected experts on tick-bourne disease. Dick has been studying ticks on the Vineyard, and working to reduce the incidence of tick borne di...

About this event

  • Event lasts 3 hours 30 minutes
  • ALL AGES

Welcome to Tick Talk 2025!

Join us at the Katharine Cornell Theater upstairs at Tisbury Town Hall for a morning of informative talks with plenty of time for audience Q&A. Our lineup of speakers includes medical doctors, biologists, researchers, inventors and more.

Mark your calendars and get ready for an unforgettable experience at Tick Talk 2025! We can't wait to see you there.

Special thanks to our sponsors: Project Lyme, the Johnson Family Foundation, the Island Tick-Borne Illness Prevention Fund, the Fledgling Fund, and Martha's Vineyard Hospital for their generous support.

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Martha's Vineyard Medical
Free
Aug 16 · 9:00 AM EDT