Living Well With Epilepsy wins Silver in Web Health Awards

Living Well With Epilepsy has been honored with a Silver Award in the16th Annual Web Health Awards. The Web Health Awards competition, held twice each year, recognizes the nation’s best digital health resources. The awards program is organized by the Health Information Resource Center[sm] (HIRC), a 20-year old clearinghouse for professionals who work in consumer health fields.

Healthcare Leaders

Living Well With Epilepsy was judged against hundreds of entries. Other winners include Mayo Clinic Health System, American Academy of Pediatrics, Razorfish Healthware, March of Dimes, Coffey Communications, Everyday Health, and United Healthcare.

The Web Health Awards

The Web Health Awards and Web Health Awards | MOBILE are extensions of the HIRC’s 21-year old National Health Information Awards[sm], the largest program of its kind in the United States. Because of the dynamic nature of digital health resources, the Web Health Awards competition is held twice each year: Winter/Spring and Summer/Fall.

The Site

Living Well With Epilepsy, was founded in 2009 by Jessica Keenan Smith. The site has become a leading provider of news, personal stories, commentary, interviews, and awareness events for the global epilepsy community. Living Well With Epilepsy attracts a diverse readership:

• from more than 150 countries.
• more than 100,000 views/avg 5k per month
• more than 50,000 visits
• more than 3000 Twitter followers
• 1100 Facebook followers

To learn more about the site and our founder, visit https://livingwellwithepilepsy.com/about-us/founder.

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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