Board of Trustees  

Constance “Happy” Dickey, RN is from Hampden, Maine. She was employed at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor for 25 years. Since 1999 she has had a special interest in Lyme and related diseases and has spent much time and energy on research of tick borne diseases. Happy was on the Board of Directors of ILADS from 2001-2007 and held the position of Membership Chairperson. In Maine, she facilitates two live support groups and moderates an online information and support group for Maine patients. She is an advocate for patients and assists with educational programs for medical personnel and the public.

Sharon Hawkes, MLIS has been involved in Lyme disease advocacy since 2001 in Ridgefield, CT, when Lyme disease first interrupted a 25-year career in the arts.  Transitioning to the library field, she is a Beta Phi Mu graduate of Syracuse University, with coursework in consumer health, management, information organization, collection development, and digital libraries.  She is employed as an administrative assistant for the Auburn Public Library in Maine. 

Beatrice M. Szantyr, MD, a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and member of the American College of Physicians, is board certified in both internal medicine and pediatrics. She has lectured on Lyme Disease and Related Tick-borne Disorders to professional and community groups throughout New England. She currently participates on the State of Maine Vector-borne Disease Work Group. Among her professional memberships are the Maine Medical Association and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society. Dr. Szantyr has given testimony before the State of Maine Legislature concerning Lyme Disease in the State of Maine.

Advisory Board

Robert Bransfield, MD is associate director of psychiatry at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank, New Jersey.  He has published on Lyme disease as it applies to psychiatry for over a decade, including in prestigious medical journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine. 

Gary Maggi, RN, MLS is a medical librarian on the adjunct faculty of Syracuse University, and former Associate Dean of Knowledge Services at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center and School of Nursing in Syracuse, NY.  He is currently serving as a medical librarian in Croatia. 

Project Advisory

Jian Qin, PhD is an Associate Professor in Library and Information Science at Syracuse University, specializing in the organization of information and digital librarianship.  She is widely published in peer-reviewed information science journals, and frequently lectures internationally.  Her research has been funded by the Institute for Scientific Information, OCLC, and Syracuse University.