CURE Epilepsy News
Mar 2025 / The Weekly Show, iHeart Radio
CEO Beth Dean chats with The Weekly Show about epilepsy and the desperate need for more research.
Apr 2024 / What The Health Podcast
The conversation covers the difficulties of diagnosing and treating epilepsy due to its varied manifestations, the impact of epilepsy on daily life, including the side effects of medications, and the importance of self-advocacy.
Nov 2023 / M/Oppenheim
CURE Epilepsy’s CEO, Beth Lewin Dean, joins three other nonprofit leaders within the epilepsy space, Roy Cherry, CEO of The Epilepsy Center of Northwest Ohio; & Ilene Penn Miller, Director of Rare Epilepsy Network and Director of Epilepsies Action Network.
May 2023 / ABC7 Chicago
David and Susan Axelrod speak with ABC7 Chicago about their motivation to establish CURE Epilepsy in hopes of finding a cure for their daughter, Lauren, who experienced her first seizure in 1982.
May 2023 / ABC7 CHICAGO
Tanja Babich sat down with Susan and David Axelrod to reflect on the journey that brought them and the organization Susan founded to this point.
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March 2023 / FOX 11 LOS ANGELES
CURE Epilepsy’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Laura Lubbers, speaks with Fox 11 Los Angeles on their segment aimed at raising awareness of epilepsy, Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), and infantile spasms. Additional guests on the segment include CURE Epilepsy community member Francesca Calloway, mother of a child with epilepsy, and an Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCLA, Dr. Shaun Hussain.
March 2023 / PIX11 NEWS
CURE Epilepsy CEO, Beth Lewin Dean, speaks with PIX11 News on Purple Day® about the importance of raising epilepsy awareness for the epilepsy community as we continue to search for a cure.
Feb 2023 / CHARITY MATTERS PODCAST
CURE Epilepsy Founder, Susan Axelrod, appears as a guest on the Charity Matters podcast to discuss her journey as a parent to a child with epilepsy and how that experience lead to her, and other parents, creating CURE Epilepsy.
Jan 2023 / CHILD LIFE ON CALL PODCAST
CURE Epilepsy Boar Chair, Kelly Cervantes, appears on the Child Life on Call podcast to share how her family sought to empower themselves in the face of their daughter Adelaide’s epilepsy, her work with CURE Epilepsy, and much more.
