Dr. Richard Horowitz, MD is a board-certified internist with 30+ years of experience treating over 13,000 patients for Lyme and associated tickborne disorders. He is the author of 2 national best-selling books on Lyme disease (Why Can’t I Get Better? St Martin’s Press, 2013, NY Times Best Seller; How Can I Get Better? St Martin’s Press, 2017, National Bestseller) and has worked during the past several years with Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency of the Federal government tasked with protecting the health and wellbeing of all Americans. In that regard, Dr Horowitz has worked directly with the CDC, NIH, FDA and DoD as a member of the HHS Tick-borne Disease Working Group and Co-chair of the HHS Other Tick-borne Diseases and Co-infections subcommittee, which gave Congress recommendations on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne disorders in 2018. Dr Horowitz has also worked on finding solutions for COVID-19 and has published several scientific articles in the medical literature on the diagnosis and treatment that are undergoing randomized, clinical trials at major universities. Dr Horowitz as a citizen scientist has been carefully following the science on climate change during the past several years. The conclusion he and other government scientists have reached after carefully reviewing the scientific literature is that humanity has approximately an 8 - 10 year window to reverse the present course of carbon pollution before we reach a tipping point of no return, resulting in irreparable damage to our ecosystems and way of life. The health, economic and social devastation of unchecked climate change is rapidly approaching and if no immediate action is taken, according to scientists from across the globe who have examined the data, is that future generations will be experiencing what has been described as nothing less than the 6th extinction. A radical destruction of life as we know it, where a significant portion of plant, animal, insect, and human life will become extinct. We have experienced 5 prior extinctions in human history, but this is the only one that will be a direct result of human greed and ignorance. An anthropomorphic climate disaster. The pain, suffering and loss will be devastating for each and every person and family across the planet. This is the future humanity is running towards. What therefore can be done to reverse and change our present course of inaction? Dr Horowitz has studied during the past 40 years with Tibetan Buddhist masters of the Karma Kagyu lineage, having received over 200 initiations and teachings into the nature of mind and existence. He has taken vows of the bodhisattva to relieve the suffering of others.

Dr. Darin Ingels is a licensed naturopathic physician, author, international speaker and leading authority on Lyme disease. He is a former Lyme patient who overcame his own 3-year battle with Lyme disease, after having failed conventional treatment and became progressively debilitated. Dr. Ingels found that proper diet, lifestyle management and natural therapies worked with his body to heal instead of against it. He then applied what he learned about his own healing journey to his own Lyme patients and found they recovered faster and with less side effects. Dr. Ingels has now treated more than 8,000 Lyme patients using his novel approach, many who have gone one to live healthy, symptom-free lives. Dr. Ingels has been featured on WebMD, MindBodyGreen, BeWell, ThriveGlobal, Motherly and Dr. Ron Hoffman’s Intelligent Medicine podcast and is the author of The Lyme Solution: A 5-Part Plan to Fight the Inflammatory Autoimmune Response and Beat Lyme Disease.

From grad student, workaholic, and Crossfit enthusiast to bed-bound from Lyme, Lauren holds a Masters in Analytics and has years of experience in promotion and the legal field. She is working to empower those with Lyme disease and help others to join together to make change while still fighting her personal battle with chronic Lyme.

On a mission to flatten the curve of healthcare costs, James Maskell has spent the past decade innovating at the cross section of functional medicine and community. To that end, he created the Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference with record-setting participation online and growing physician communities around the world. His organization and best-selling book of the same name, Evolution of Medicine, prepares health professionals for this new era of personalized, participatory medicine. His new project, HealCommunity, follows his second book "The Community Cure", makes it easy for clinics and health systems to deliver lifestyle-focused care effectively and frictionlessly. He is an in-demand speaker and impresario, being featured on TEDMED, HuffPostLive and TEDx, as well as lecturing internationally. He lives in the Sierra Nevadas with his wife and two daughters.

Dr. Sapi received her Ph.D. degree in Genetics from the University of Eotvos Lorand (Budapest, Hungary). She is a Professor at the University of New Haven (Connecticut) where she teaches undergraduate and graduate-level biology courses and carries out Lyme disease research with her students. Her recent studies investigate the different forms of Borrelia burgdorferi to better understand how Borrelia can hide from the immune system, as well as from antimicrobial therapies. Her recent research shows that Borrelia burgdorferi is capable of forming a protective layer around itself – called biofilm – which could render it to be very resistant to antibiotics and provide a logical explanation as to why extensive antibiotic treatment for patients with a tick-bite history could fail. The goal of her research group is to fully characterize this novel form and to identify novel antibacterial agents that are effective in killing all forms of Borrelia burgdorferi. Her recent studies also examine the pathogen-host relationship between Borrelia and mammalian cells.

Chronic Lyme patient, successful software development firm founder & tech entrepreneur who’s completed hundreds of digital projects, with tens of thousands of collective users

Chronic Lyme patient with decades of experience in marketing & leadership development and a proven track record for building highly successful teams

Cutting-edge Naturopathic Doctor & board-certified Acupuncturist with more than 10 years of experience in environmental toxins & complex chronic disease