Epilepsy on the move: Stay tuned for upcoming epilepsy and seizure disorder events and news in 2024
Stay tuned for upcoming epilepsy and seizure disorder events and news in the new year! Early in December, the American Epilepsy Society meeting is being held in Orlando, FL where many of the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group doctors and clinical staff will travel to present their research and to learn from others. Seizure Action Plan week, International Epilepsy Day, our next Epilepsy Book club and Purple Day® will be coming in the first few months of 2024.
December 1-5: the American Epilepsy Society will hold its annual meeting where epilepsy specialists from across the globe meet to share their research and to learn from others. This year, it is being hosted in Orlando, FL and will last 5 whole days.
January 17 (Wednesday) at 12 noon, the virtual epilepsy support group for adult patients and their loved ones will meet and will continue to run monthly through June 2024. To register, email lmyers@epilepsygroup.com
January 19 at 12 noon
Epilepsy Book club which will focus on "Lying awake" by Mark Salzman this time around.
As part of our Wellness Program, NEREG and MAESC hosts an on-line epilepsy and seizure-themed Book Club every 4 months! Everyone in the group reads the book on their own, then “meets” online to talk about it: impressions, opinions, critiques. Books are selected based on their relevance to epilepsy, such as books that have a fictional or non-fictional character with epilepsy or that is written by a person living with epilepsy. The group will vote on the upcoming books to read. Our next book is "Lying awake" by Mark Salzman.
Read the brief synopsis of our next book: In a Carmelite monastery on the outskirts of Los Angeles, life has continued virtually unchanged for centuries. Here, Sister John of the Cross lives in the service of God. She is the only nun who experiences visions and is regarded by the others as a spiritual master. But Sister John is also plagued by powerful headaches and when a doctor reveals that they may be dangerous, she faces a devastating choice. Is this grace merely an illness and will a ‘cure' mean the end of her illuminations and a soul dry and searching?
Please email lmyers@epilepsygroup.com if you are interested in participating.
https://epilepsygroup.com/news6-163/epilepsy-book-club.htm
February 12, 2024, marks the start of Epilepsy Action Plan week. Don’t know what that is? Stay tuned because the 2024 Awareness Toolkit will be available in January 2024 and you can learn all about it then.
February 12, 2024, International Epilepsy Day will be celebrated all around the globe. This is a day meant to globally raise epilepsy awareness and to improve the lives of those living with epilepsy.
March 26, 2024, Purple Day® will be celebrated all around the world. This is a day to raise awareness and to celebrate those people we know whose lives have been touched by epilepsy.
