Celebrating the National Plan For Epilepsy Reintroduction: Part 3 - A Community Celebration!

On February 11th, the bipartisan co-chairs of the Congressional Epilepsy Caucus – Senator Eric Schmitt, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Representative Greg Murphy, M.D, and Representative Jim Costa  - kicked off a briefing to reintroduce the National Plan for Epilepsy Act - S. 494 and HR 1189.

The community was there to celebrate this momentous occasion. Listen to the briefing in full here. And ask your legislators to sign on to this legislation. You can find tools to support your advocacy and outreach here.

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Landis Wiedner - a person living with epilepsy and national podcaster and host of What the EF joined to share her personal journey. She also brought along George, a service animal.

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/9d869b_d3137372aca04842b545a46ac3ef1c76/1080p/mp4/file.mp4

CURE Epilepsy has been working toward these goals from the very beginning with a focus on research. Listen to CEO Beth Dean's remarks.

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/9d869b_d8cff54021be4c5084514a044e277edd/1080p/mp4/file.mp4

Howard Goodkin, MD, President of the American Epilepsy Society and also a pediatric neurologist brought a clinician's perspective on how a National Plan will improve care of patients and "relegate epilepsy to the history books."

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/9d869b_d9fef275c7d84932bd261b56113e5bac/1080p/mp4/file.mp4

Stay tuned for more photos and quotes from leaders in the 4th Part of this blog series.