Experts at Stony Brook Medicine’s Comprehensive Level 4 Epilepsy Center will discuss advances in epilepsy diagnosis, management and support during a live-streamed Q&A session on Monday, Nov. 15 beginning at 11 a.m.
Learn more about what’s involved in accurately diagnosing epilepsy and therapeutic advances in the field. Participants can submit questions online and Stony Brook Medicine’s experts will address them during the live-stream.
Rebecca Spiegel MD, Epileptologist and Chief, Stony Brook Comprehensive Level 4 Epilepsy Center will moderate the discussion.
Participating doctors:
Lourdes Bello, MD, Pediatric Epileptologist, Stony Brook Comprehensive Level 4 Epilepsy Center
Benjamin Blond, MD, Adult and Pediatric Epileptologist and Director, Epilepsy Surgery, Stony Brook Comprehensive Level 4 Epilepsy Center
Louis N. Manganas, MD, PhD, Pediatric Epileptologist and Chief, Pediatric Neurology, Stony Brook Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook Comprehensive Level 4 Epilepsy Center
The livestream event can be seen on Facebook and on YouTube.
Epilepsy and seizures affect more than 3 million Americans of all ages, with about 200,000 new cases diagnosed each year.
Stony Brook Medicine’s Epilepsy Center, Suffolk County’s only comprehensive level 4 epilepsy center offers a team of highly skilled adult and pediatric epileptologists, neurologists, neuropsychologists, radiologists and neurosurgeons, Stony Brook Medicine said in a press release announcing the panel.
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