sentences:  Since 2003, he has been a faculty member of the Rheumatology Division at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.Throughout his career, Lyme disease has been a central focus – from description of the disease, to development of diagnostic tests, testing of treatment regimens, defining pathogenic mechanisms, and evaluation of the first vaccine to prevent the infection.In 1975, the Connecticut State Health Department received complaints from Polly Murray, a mother living in the small town of Lyme, Connecticut.