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.
Cathy O'Rourke
I would like to know what thoughts anyone has about me returning to college next year. I am a youthful 53 year old, at least that’s what I like to think, and would like to do a higher diploma in music though since being diagnosed with epilepsy 3 years ago I have lost a lot of self confidence and worry about my memory and concentration skills. My epilepsy is under control but I get very tired with medication and this the type of epilepsy I have is connected to my heart which has caused me to have a pacemaker incase I have an absence seizure and my heart stops.