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A Day for Teens With Epilepsy
(Jun 9, 2008)
"A Day for Teens With Epilepsy"--to be held on Saturday, June 14, from 9 am to 3 pm--is a free educational conference focused on helping adolescents and teens with epilepsy and their parents find tools to help manage the transitions of growing up with a medical disorder. The conference, hosted by The Columbia Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, will be held at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, Hammer Health Sciences Building, 701 West 168th Street, Room 401. Attendees will actively participate in discussions with epilepsy experts, as well as teens who will share how they manage their lives living with epilepsy.
"A Day for Teens With Epilepsy" will also provide insights to the challenges adolescents, teens, and their parents face every day. For example, teens deal with the stigma of being different, and parents must learn to let go as their child becomes an independent young adult. Experts will discuss such issues as the role of sports in a teen's life, the importance of sleep for a teen with seizure disorders, side effects of medications and their impact on a teen's self esteem, and creative alternative therapies. Teen-to-teen and parent-to-parent groups will meet through lunch, and the conference will culminate with a panel discussion on Managing Transitions: Social Issues Involving Teens with Epilepsy.
According to the Epilepsy Foundation, 200,000 new cases of epilepsy are diagnosed each year--some 45,000 are children under the age of 15. The prevalence of active epilepsy (history of the disorder plus a seizure or use of antiepileptic medicine within the past five years) is estimated at approximately 2.7 million in the United States.
For more information and to register, please call (212) 305-5601.
