CURE Epilepsy in the 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.

Released March 2023

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.

Released March 2023

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.

Released February 2023

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.

Released January 2023

Board Chair and Seizing Life host, Kelly Cervantes, talks about what it’s like to be a miraculous mama.

 CURE Epilepsy CEO, Beth Dean, along with community advocate and mom Nora Hennessy spoke with Dr. Joseph Sirven about epilepsy and living with epilepsy on NPR’s What’s Health Got to Do with It podcast.

Released November 2022