72. Pathology, Lyme disease, biobanks and more

Catching up with Dr. Sarah Keating.

Dr. Sarah Keating in episode 72 of Looking at Lyme.

In this podcast, we talk with Dr. Sarah Keating. As an anatomic pathologist for more than 35 years, Sarah worked on staff at a number of hospitals in Ontario as well as at Ontario Forensic Pathology Services. She is recently retired but is passionate about learning as much as possible about tick borne diseases in order to help improve the access to care for suffering patients. She maintains her affiliation with the University of Toronto as an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology. Sarah has been a member of the CanLyme board since 2022 and she is also an active member of ILADS – the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society.

Sarah is committed to spreading awareness of the potential causative role of tick-borne diseases in mental illness, promoting education of Canadian health care practitioners and policy makers in tick-borne diseases, and promoting the role of tissue diagnosis to increase our understanding of these diseases.

Topics discussed

  • 1:25 How Dr. Keating became interested in becoming a pathologist
  • 2:20 What being a pathologist entails
  • 3:06 What led Dr. Keating to be interested in Lyme disease
  • 4:13 How pathology and Lyme disease intersect, and what a biobank is
  • 5:38 Access to new information to Lyme for medical professionals
  • 6:10 The importance of curiosity in medicine and the troubles of misinformation
  • 7:09 ILADS conference in 2024, and Dr. Keating’s role at the conference for CanLyme
  • 8:55 Support for healthcare practitioners who treat Lyme through CanLyme
  • 9:30 Education grants at CanLyme for practitioners https://canlyme.com/education-grants/
  • 10:12 The most helpful takeaways from ILADS conference 2024 and the trouble with Canadian Lyme disease testing
  • 11:12 Differences in international standards for diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease
  • 12:37 The role of climate change in the spread of Lyme disease
  • 13:45 The activities that CanLyme is currently running
  • 14:14 The potential of tick borne diseases in mental illnesses
  • 16:35 What keeps Dr. Keating motivated
  • 17:45 Dr. Keating’s suggestions for those who have been recently diagnosed with Lyme disease

Announcing the first annual Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference

Join us for the first annual Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference exclusively for medical practitioners. Taking place in Toronto, November 8 and 9, this conference will allow you to hear the latest on diagnosis and treatment of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases from fellow practitioners and experts.

Canadian Tick-Borne Disease Conference.

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