September 6, 2023 / Kiley Flowers
This week on Seizing Life®, recent college graduate and CURE Epilepsy summer intern Kiley Flowers joins us to talk about Jeavons syndrome and share her personal journey with this rare form of generalized epilepsy.
August 23, 2023 / Clare Phelps
This week on Seizing Life® Clare Phelps shares the difficult diagnosis and frustrating treatment journey of her young daughter Sophie, whose epilepsy has so far been treatment resistant.
August 9, 2023 / Mariah Mayhugh
This week on Seizing Life® Mariah Mayhugh discusses her epilepsy journey, from hiding childhood absence seizures to becoming an active and creative advocate for epilepsy awareness, education, and representation.
July 26, 2023 / Hailey Yoon
This week on Seizing Life®, we speak with Hailey Yoon about the emotional and psychological impacts that childhood epilepsy may have even years after seizures subside.
July 12, 2023 / Dr. Dave Clarke
This week on Seizing Life® Dr. Dave Clarke gives us a thorough overview of the specialists and services available at comprehensive epilepsy centers and offers advice about when and how to access these centers.
June 28, 2023 / Tiffany and Chris Kairos
This week on Seizing Life® we speak with epilepsy advocates and married couple Tiffany and Chris Kairos about the impact that epilepsy has had on their marriage.
June 14, 2023 / Bud Hager
This week on Seizing Life®, father and therapist Bud Hager discusses being the caregiver to a young daughter with a rare and complex medical condition. Bud discusses the daily responsibilities and the overarching emotional journey of parenting a child with a rare disease, and how it has transformed his life in both tangible and philosophical ways.
May 31, 2023 / Dr. Patrice Jackson-Ayotunde
This week on Seizing Life® Dr. Patrice Jackson-Ayotunde, an organic chemist and Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), discusses her 20+ years of epilepsy drug research and her decade-long epilepsy fundraising efforts.
May 17, 2024 / Matt Perrone
This week on Seizing Life® we speak with Matt Perrone about his epilepsy onset and treatment journey, the impacts of seizures and medication on his mental health, and how his daughter’s diagnosis at the age of four spurred him to create EpiPalooza, a multi-band concert aimed at raising awareness and funds for epilepsy research.
