New Executive Director at ILADS
We’re looking forward to working with incoming ILADS Executive Director Sarah Quillen.
CanLyme is grateful to outgoing ILADS Executive Director Barbara Buchman for 20 years of service! Thank you for your support in training Canadian healthcare professionals.
CanLyme has provided training grants to Canadian healthcare professionals to attend ILADS training and conferences over the past few years. Barbara Buchman helped facilitate this process and we appreciated her expertise and dedication.
“This has been an extraordinary experience for me in so many ways. I have listened to the tragic stories of many people who have Lyme, and I have met some really amazing and compassionate people from around the globe who are all committed to helping them… Thank you so much for the opportunity you’ve given me to help make a difference. I wish you all health, inspiration, and determination as you continue ILADS’ very worthy and important mission of training doctors to fight and hopefully someday cure this disease.”
Barbara Buchman
Welcome to Sarah Quillen
CanLyme extends a warm welcome to Incoming ILADS Executive Director Sarah Quillen. We look forward to working collaboratively to support training of Canadian healthcare professionals through the numerous ILADS training opportunities.
An accomplished executive, Quillen brings to this role a 25+ year career working with non-profits in the interdisciplinary health and human services community in leadership, fundraising, community relations, and programs. Her experience includes 10 years with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, an association, advocacy organization, and foundation, and has extensive experience in relationship-building, organizational management, program execution, event planning, membership engagement and growth across all constituencies. She brings a track record of data-driven decision-making to achieve goals and maximize the human capital of an organization.
In her welcome message, Sarah Quillen discloses that, like many who work in this field, her family has been affected by tick- borne disease.
“In this role, I will focus on strengthening the organization’s impact and achieving its mission and vision. I look forward to meeting our members and building strategic partnerships and continuing to build on this incredible legacy that has already contributed much to enhance our community.”
Sarah Quillen, Executive Director ILADS
About ILADS
ILADS is a nonprofit, international, multi-disciplinary medical society, dedicated to the diagnosis and appropriate treatment of Lyme and its associated diseases. ILADS promotes understanding of Lyme and its associated diseases through research and education and strongly supports physicians and other health care professionals dedicated to advancing the standard of care for Lyme and its associated diseases. For more information about Lyme and related diseases please visit ILADS.ORG.
About ILADEF
The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation (ILADEF) is a sister organization of ILADS. Its mission is to train physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and tick-borne disease, and to support research scientists investigating tick-borne diseases. For more information please visit ILADEF.ORG.
