THe AUTHORS
STEVEN PHILLIPS, MD
Steven E. Phillips, MD is a Yale-trained, world-renowned expert on zoonotic infections who has treated over 20,000 patients from over 20 countries. He is well-published in the peer-reviewed medical literature, acclaimed for his work linking chronic diseases to occult infections, and for successfully treating some of medicine’s most complex cases. He specializes in the management of zoonotic infections, which include Lyme, Bartonellosis, Babesiosis, and other vector-borne diseases. He has served as an invited expert on this topic for the states of CT, NY, RI, and VT, providing testimony during their public hearings, which has resulted in changes to existing healthcare laws. Dr. Phillips has lectured at numerous medical schools, medical societies, and hospitals, is an in-demand guest for TV and other media and has been a longstanding public face of the Lyme disease epidemic.
He is also one of a handful of physicians from the United States invited to provide expert testimony at the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s hearing on Lyme disease in Washington, D.C. in 2009. His written testimony for that hearing is 81 pages long with 226 medical references and remains one of the most comprehensive reviews on the topic of complex and chronic, late-stage Lyme disease.
With over two decades of experience successfully treating patients with zoonotic infection, Dr. Phillips has been a powerful influencer in the medical community, lecturing that inflammatory and rheumatic conditions can be caused by infections such as Bartonella. He is currently spearheading a drug development effort to bring public an effective and durable treatment for this infection. To this end, Dr. Phillips was honored with the 2018 Emerging Leader Award by the Bay Area Lyme Foundation and sits on their scientific advisory board.
DANA PARISH
Dana is a chart-topping Sony/ATV Writer and New York City-based science journalist who writes a popular HuffPost column on tick-borne diseases, read by over a million people across the globe. Parish was featured on Fox’s Emmy-winning special, Lyme & Reason: The Cause and Consequence of Lyme disease, and is an in-demand public speaker, most recently giving the keynote address with Dr. Phillips at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s LymeMIND conference.
After contracting a serious case of Lyme and Bartonella in 2014, which was misdiagnosed by a dozen doctors, leading to heart failure, Parish was determined to help change the status quo. By teaming up with Dr. Steven Phillips and famed Duke Oncologist, Dr. Neil Spector, she helped found a biotech company, Kyronyx, which is leading the way toward a cure for these rampant, incurable infections.
Parish has become a leading public face of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases and sits on the advisory board of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation, who recognized her with their first Courage Award in 2017. Dana and Dr. Phillips were also honored by Harvard’s The Dean Center for Tick-Borne Illness in 2019 as “People Who Inspire.”