Dr. Cameron's office

 		  

Interview with Dr. Cameron
Charmain Cowen
Daniel J. Cameron, M.D., M.P.H.
Diana Waxler

I first became interested in Lyme disease in 1988 after caring for my first three patients with chronic Lyme disease.  I began seeing a lot of patients with persistent and recurrent Lyme disease. It was also around this time that Alan Steere, M.D. [the Yale rheumatologist who first reported on Lyme disease in 1975], published a report on encephalopathy among Lyme disease patients in the November 1990 New England Journal of Medicine. I was already seeing patients with Lyme disease and began discussing the fatigue, memory and concentration problems with other physicians on a regular basis. At that time I didn’t have an understanding of the epidemic nature of chronic Lyme disease. In fact, it wasn’t until the Spring of 1992 that I completed my first follow-up study, that I understood how may people with Lyme disease developed persistent and current symptoms.

I was seeing a lot of the chronic Practice, and I was referring many of them to specialists. But most doctors were unaware of how to treat chronic Lyme disease. It became increasingly obvious that we were dealing with a infection that becomes chronic, but no one was doing anything about it. You had patients that felt that Lyme disease would never be cured, and a medical community that believed that Lyme disease was a psychiatric diagnosis. A lot of doctors weren’t willing to deal with the chronic nature of Lyme disease.

One of the most disturbing things about these early years is that you could tell we were confronting a disease that would affect vast numbers of people, but physicians were behaving as if nothing was happening. I was alarmed at the lack of caring I saw. Very few people were advocating long term or repeated antibiotic use.

Something that’s very heartening to see is that several people who became involved with Lyme disease since the late 1980's have formed a Lyme and Related Diseases Society (ILADS). I stay involved because I know so many people who are chronically sick.

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Excerpt from Coping with Lyme disease
Coping with Lyme Disease

Excert from Coping with Lyme disease.
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Dr. Daniel Cameron, an internist and Lyme researcher in Mount Kisco, New York, is accoustomed to being on the firing line. A former academic researcher who headed the National Task Force on Aging, Cameron the clinician, who has published and presented more than thirty scientific papers and serves on the boards of the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society and the Lyme Disease Association, has a reputation for meticulously challanging researchers at national and international conferences who present papers and theories unsupported by the lates liteature. His position represent a growing third "camp" in the Lyme disease medical arena.

"I base treatment on the literature, not the position of my peers. For this reason, I find I am in the middle group regarding treatment, not diagnosis. I make a diagnosis on clinical grounds. There are many diseases in medicine in medicine which we treat even though there may be a low probability that the patient has them, but we do it because, if untreated, they will progress to something much more serious. I feel Lyme disease falls into this category."

Cameron is not sitting back on his heels, simply waiting for the literature to evolve. He established the Lyme Project in 1997 to amass a national Lyme Surveillance Database and has conducted a series of clinical trials on various aspects of Lyme. Currently, he is conducting the Re-treatment Study, a double-blind clinical trial designed to compare the efficacy of using amoxicillin, as compared to other drugs, in re-treating Lyme patients who are expereinceing problems after having been successfully treated for Lyme at least once before. Anyone interested in finding out more about Dr. Cameron's Re-treatment Study or his other projects can contact his office or visit his website: Cameron@LymeProject.com

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Experience and expertise

The LymeProject office evaluates more than 500 new patients with Lyme disease annually and equally as many patients with recurrent Lyme disease annually. The practice is familiar with the treatment of persistent, recurrent, and refractory Lyme disease. The LymeProject staff has successfully treated thousands of adolescents and adults with chronic Lyme disease.

The LymeProject staff is comfortable with identifying which Lyme disease patients will require prolonged and repeated antibiotics even if laboratory serologies are negative. In addition, the LymeProject coordinates a surveillance data base and clinical trials to develop the highest level of care to Lyme disease patients.

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Appointment

Address
Dr. Daniel J. Cameron
First Medical Associates
175 Main Street
Mt. Kisco, NY 10549
Tel: 914-666-4665
Fax: 914-666-6271
EMail: Cameron@LymeProject.com


Hours
Monday - Friday 9AM to 5:15 PM
Saturday - 9AM to 12:45 PM
Sunday - 9AM to 11:00 AM

Location
Our office is located in Mt. Kisco, New York, 45 miles north of New York City. For directions:

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Directions

The LymeProject is 40 miles north of Manhattan in Northern Westchester county, offering easy access from anywhere in the New York Metropolitan area by car or public transportation. We are located at 175 Main Street, Mt. Kisco, New York 10549 on the second floor.

From Connecticut
From Manhatten
From Queens or Long Island
From Taconic Northbound
From Taconic Southbound
From the East
From the North
From the South
From the West
Parking


From Connecticut Route 84.

Take Route 84 west to Route 684 Southbound. Follow directions from the North as written above. Top

From Manhattan.

Take Route 84 west to Route 684 Southbound. Follow directions from the North as written above. Top


From Queens or Long Island.

Use the Whitestone Bridge. Pick up the Hutchinson Parkway northbound. Follow the Parkway to the sign that says "Exit Brewster, Route 684". This Exit will lead you to Route 684. Follow directions from the East as written above. Top


From Taconic Northbound.

Take the Taconic Northbound to the sign that reads "Saw Mill River Parkway, Brewster". Follow the Saw Mill Parkway to the Readers Digest / Roaring Brook Road exit. Follow directions from the South, as written above.Top


From Taconic Southbound.

From Taconic Southbound, take briarcliff Road/Millwood exit, Route 133/100. Make a Right onto Route 100 North. At the Traffic light make a right turn at end of road, make a right turn following signs for 120/133. Follow Route 133 East, which becomes Route 117 South (main street) through the town of Mount Kisco. Follow Route 117 Proceed approximately 1 - 1/2 blocks. The office will be on your left on the second floor (175 Main Street). Take a left at the next block onto Lundy Lane and left into Ramric plaza for parking. Top


From the East.

From Routes 95 and 287 (Port Chester) proceed on Route 287 following signs to White Plains for approximately 5 miles to exit 684 North. Proceed approximately 13 miles to exit 4 - Mount Kisco and Route 172. Turn left onto route 172 to the end (1-1/2 miles) of Route 172 - the third traffic light. Bear right at the light onto route 117 North and proceed 4 blocks. Take a right onto Lundy lane and left into Ramric plaza for parking.Top


From the North.

From Route 22 (Brewster) take Route 684 South, following signs for White Plains, proceed on Route 684 for about 15 miles. Take exit 4, Route 172. Bear Right off the exit and proceed 1-1/2 miles west to the end of Route 172 - the third traffic light. Bear right at the light onto route 117 North and proceed 4 blocks. Take a right onto Lundy lane and left into Ramric plaza for parking.Top


From the South.

From the George Washington Bridge, enter onto the Henry Hudson Parkway 9A. Proceed on the parkway approximately 7 miles to the Saw Mill River Parkway (Westchester County). Go North on the parkway for about 15 miles, past a traffic light for Readers Digest Road-Roaring Brook Road. Take exit 34 (Mt. Kisco). Take a right at the light and follow Route 133 East, which becomes Route 117 South (main street) through the town of Mount Kisco. Follow Route 117 Proceed approximately 1 - 1/2 blocks. The office will be on your left on the second floor (175 Main Street). Take a left at the next block onto Lundy Lane and left into Ramric plaza for parking.Top


From the West.

From the West Side of the Tappan Zee Bridge, cross the bridge and stay in the right two lanes. Take the Saw Mill Parkway Northbound. Follow Saw Mill Parkway Northbound to exit 34 (Mt. Kisco). Take a right at the light and follow Route 133 East, which becomes Route 117 South (main street) through the town of Mount Kisco. Follow Route 117 Proceed approximately 1 - 1/2 blocks. The office will be on your left on the second floor (175 Main Street). Take a left at the next block onto Lundy Lane and left into Ramric plaza for parking. Top


Parking.

Free parking is available behind the office. You can enter the parking lot by taking a right on Lundy Lane if you are coming from the south or a left if you are entering from the north. Take the first left onto Ramric plaza into the parking lot. The office sign says First Medical Associates.

The office is accessible by ramp. Feel free to have someone from the office assist you. Our office has a wide wheel chair if needed. Top

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