Epilepsy Blog Relay: Global Epilepsy Training

Global Impact

This February, I had the honor of presenting as part of the EPILEPSY ASSESSMENT & MANAGEMENT COURSE (EAMC), which is offered by Pretola Health and Consulting and led by its founder, Tolu Olaniyan, Bsc, LD Nursing, MSc, Epilepsy.

I presented alongside other leaders in the patient engagement space such as Torie Robinson, and Nina Mago.

Free to Participants

Thanks to the course sponsors ROW Foundation and TSC Alliance, more than 500 participants of the EAMC will be trained on epilepsy for free.

This three-month virtual global epilepsy training supports doctors and nurses in Low to Middle Income Countries (LMICs) looking to stay abreast of latest research in epilepsy management and improve their patients’ outcomes.

This fourth edition of the EAMC offers a truly multidisciplinary approach to epilepsy management, featuring specialist sessions on how to assess and manage Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) and Epilepsy in Children.

Meaningful to a Global Audience

The course content is highly engaging and tailored to reflect the clinical, cultural, and socio-economic contexts in LMICs. Participants from previous editions of the EAMC have benefited from opportunity to network with other participants and share best practice when caring for people with epilepsy. In fact one participant noted, “it’s a helpful one as a medical doctor to know what I could change in my approach to patients, how important [it is] for them to provide even those sensitive information [such as seizure risks] and to encourage them to join support groups. And I think clinicians need capacity building in communication skills and psychiatric management.”

Learn More

To learn more about how you can participate in this global epilepsy training course in the future, or how you can support the course visit: https://www.pretolaghc.net

Jessica K. Smith Founder and CEO; Executive Director

Jessica Keenan Smith is a patient advocate and epilepsy community leader with more than 15 years of experience. As Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy and Executive Director of ASENT she bridges the gap between the scientific and patient communities, with a particular focus on the needs of the epilepsies. Jessica Keenan Smith is Founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy, an award winning online resource for people affected by epilepsy to share stories and access in-depth information on the disease. Since 2009, Living Well With Epilepsy (https://livingwellwithepilepsy.com) has been featured in Forbes, Wired, NBC, NPR and the cover story of Epilepsy Advocate Magazine and has partnered with companies such as UCB, Lundbeck, Sunovion, Eisai, and more. Ms. Smith is also the Executive Director of the American Society for Experimental Neurotherapeutics (ASENT) (https://asent.org), an organization that brings together leaders from industry, academia, government and advocacy who are engaged in bringing drugs and devices to market across all neurologic disease states. In this role she is responsible for leading a successful scientific journal and annual scientific conference with speakers from all over the world.

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