Meet The Team

Scott Copeland

Founder & CEO
Bethesda Magazine Principal, RST Development

Jillian Copeland

Founder
Main Street, Diener School, Teens Like Us

Gardiner Lapham, RN, MPH

Founder, Patients Against Mortality in Epilepsy

Terri Smith

Founder, Teacher, Board Member, and Philanthropist

Bob Smith

Founder, Investor, Board Member, Advisor, Philanthropist, and Youth Mentor

Gabrielle Conecker, MPH

Incoming Chair, Epilepsy Leadership Council (ELC), Co-Founder and Exec. Dir. Decoding Developmental Epilepsies and DEE-P Connections

Brandy Fureman, Ph.D.

Chief Outcomes Officer
Epilepsy Foundation

JayEtta Hecker, M.S.

Co-Founder and Board President Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy Project (DEE-P Connections)

Laura Lubbers, Ph.D.

Chief Scientific Officer
CURE Epilepsy

Ilene Penn Miller, J.D., LLM

Director
Rare Epilepsy Network (REN)

Laura Weidner

VP, Government Relations & Advocacy
Epilepsy Foundation