Patient Powered Lyme Innovation - Let Your Voice Be Heard

Dear friends, 

I’m excited to introduce a Patient-Powered Lyme disease Initiative and encourage your participation:

The Dean Center for Tick Borne Illness at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Charlestown MA recently helped lead a Lyme Innovation “Hackathon” at MIT and UC Berkeley to problem-solve key issues facing Lyme disease.*

One project that won the support of the judges was the idea to create a patient-powered crowd source platform to give patients a stronger voice in Lyme disease.

This “Patient-Powered Lyme Initiative” is a patient voice/big data/open data project that will help drive priorities and solutions for those suffering with Lyme disease and tick borne illness. 

Lyme Innovation Hackathon MIT 2016

Lyme Innovation is a collaborative effort to bring together researchers and scientists at a series of hackathons. The program is led by the Dean Center for Tick Borne Illness at Spaulding Rehabilitation Network/Harvard Medical School Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and is sponsored by the Bay Area Lyme Foundation.

Lyme Innovation Winning TEAM at mini hackathon event, MIT April 16, 2016

About Me

My name is Robert Sabatino. I am a retired fourth generation New York City Police Officer, happily married for 20 years, with four beautiful children.  I was very active in my children's life, coached football and baseball. I used to enjoy the outdoors camping and fishing with my family. That all started ending about twelve years ago.