Epilepsy Blog Relay: Epilepsy Awareness Day at Disneyland

This post is part of the Epilepsy Blog Relay™. Follow along all month!

The Living Well With Epilepsy team is excited to announce that our founder and several of our writers will be at the 7th Annual Epilepsy Awareness Day at Disneyland (EADDL). The event, organized by Candy and Brad Levy, includes a packed Education Expo and is scheduled for November 4th, 5th and 6th – 2019.

EADDL Event Details

November 4, 2019: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
November 5, 2019: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

WHERE: Disneyland Hotel’s North and South Exhibit Hall

WHO: People of all ages with epilepsy, their families and friends, and those whose lives are touched by epilepsy or who want to raise awareness for epilepsy.

WHAT: The EXPO will feature over 60 Non-Profit support groups, several Epilepsy centers, Drug and related product manufacturers, seizure dogs and their trainers, and epilepsy professionals from around the world.

HOW MUCH: The EXPO IS FREE. Please remember this is a one of a kind event. You don’t want to miss it!

PARKING: Parking is available to all guests in the main parking structure for $18 for the day of the expo.

EADDL is the combined effort of one family’s thankfulness for their own daughter’s recovery. Candy and Brad Levy, co-founders of Sofie’s Journey/EAD invite you to join the more than 5,000 participants at this great event. Attendees will take part in an exciting education expo and a day in Disneyland Park wearing EADDL Purple Event T-Shirts. (note: park tickets sold separately)

“We wanted to create an opportunity to drive epilepsy awareness,” stated Candy Levy, Co-Founder of Sofie’s Journey/EAD. “At our event we bring together patients, physicians, advocates, non-profits, services, pharma and CBD, and this year we have a large section of the convention facility for people to meet their possible and future service dogs.”

Living Well With Epilepsy attends EADDL

This will be the first time the Living Well With Epilepsy team is attending EADDL. You can expect to meet Jessica Smith, Founder; Leila Shields, Writer; Whitney Petit, Writer; and Rachel Ehrhardt, Writer. There will be plenty of giveaways and a chance to connect with the women who you have been reading about for years!

Learn more about EADDL

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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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