VectorWise CME has added four new AAFP‑accredited CME programs to its free educational library. The courses cover tick‑borne disease, Lyme disease prevention, and alpha‑gal syndrome.

The new offerings feature leading experts and address clinical questions that providers are seeing more often in practice.

Topics include persistent symptoms after Lyme disease treatment to prevention strategies and the challenges of diagnosing and managing alpha‑gal syndrome.

The new courses are:

Persistent symptoms and mechanisms underlying Lyme-Infection Associated Chronic Illness

Instructor: Brian Fallon, MD, MPH, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

The first in a two-part series on Lyme infection-associated chronic illness examines post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS), including the systemic and neuropsychiatric symptoms that may persist following antibiotic treatment and the pathophysiologic mechanisms that may contribute to chronic illness.

After completing this course, learners will be able to identify commonly reported persistent systemic and neuropsychiatric symptoms and describe the primary mechanisms that may contribute to Lyme infection-associated chronic illness.

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Approaches to the Treatment of Lyme-Infection Associated Chronic Illness

Instructor: Brian Fallon, MD, MPH

The second course turns from mechanisms to treatment research. Dr. Fallon reviews the four NIH-funded clinical trials of patients with persistent Lyme disease symptoms, along with smaller case series and open-label studies.

The presentation also introduces the national Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Clinical Trials Network and its mechanism-based studies assessing the safety and tolerability of potential approaches that may warrant further investigation.

Learners will come away with a clearer understanding of what clinical trials have, and have not, shown about persistent Lyme disease symptoms, as well as areas of ongoing research.

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Lyme Disease: An Ounce of Prevention

Instructor: Beatrice M. Szantyr, MD

Lyme disease is a potentially preventable bacterial infection transmitted through the bite of an infected black-legged tick. But which prevention strategies are supported by evidence?

Dr. Szantyr reviews personal protection measures, property management, and integrated pest management strategies designed to reduce tick bites and exposure to infected ticks. The course also looks ahead at promising prevention tools that may become available in the future.

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Alpha-gal Syndrome: Q&A

Featuring Onyinye I. Iweala, MD, PhD, and Jennifer L. Platt, MSPH, DrPH

Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is an increasingly recognized tick-associated allergic condition in the United States and around the world. In this new Q&A, Dr. Onyinye I. Iweala, Director of the Allergy Mast Cell Disorders Program at UNC, joins Dr. Jennifer L. Platt, Co-Founder and Director of Tick-borne Conditions United and Adjunct Professor at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Building on our CME presentation by Scott Commins, MD, PhD, the conversation explores practical questions surrounding alpha-gal syndrome, including its presentation, diagnosis, management, and the challenges patients and clinicians encounter in navigating this complex condition. This CME is sponsored by Project Lyme.

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Free, evidence-based education for clinicians

VectorWise CME provides clinicians with free, evidence-based continuing medical education on vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, translating emerging research and expert clinical knowledge into education that can be put into practice.

Explore these new programs and the full VectorWise CME course library today.