Episode 171: Lyme Doctor's Doctor - an interview with Doctor Alan MacDonald

Tick Boot Camp · May 22, 2021 · 2h 2m

In this landmark episode of the Tick Boot Camp Podcast, hosts Richard Johannessen and Matt Sabatello sit down with Dr. Alan MacDonald, a pioneering hospital pathologist whose work has shaped — and challenged — the understanding of Lyme disease for more than four decades.

Often referred to as “the Lyme doctor’s doctor,” Dr. MacDonald was among the earliest physicians investigating Lyme disease in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during the initial outbreak on Long Island, New York. While many of his findings were dismissed or attacked at the time, decades later they continue to resurface in…