Empowering Epilepsy
PATIENT EDUCATION PROGRAM
​Are you or a loved one newly diagnosed with epilepsy? Are you or a loved one living with uncontrolled seizures?
Learning more can help you better control your seizures.
Take advantage of our free Patient Education Program to gain a deeper understanding of your diagnosis and treatment plan. Our program offers:
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Personalized Education: Free one-on-one sessions with Epilepsy Educators.
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Expert Insights: Educational content from top epilepsy specialists across the U.S.
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Comprehensive Resources: Diagnosis-specific educational information, medication details, and proactive strategies.
Learn how to take control of your epilepsy journey and improve your quality of life.
FREE 1:1 Program
What is the Empowering Epilepsy Patient Education Program?
Empowering Epilepsy's Free Patient Education Program provides a free one on one meeting to learn more about your or your loved one's individual epilepsy diagnosis and treatment plan. Inserts are authored by top epilepsy specialists to help you better understand the language of epilepsy.
Often, people with epilepsy are diagnosed with a specific seizure type(s), given a brief overview of their diagnoses, prescribed an anti-seizure medication, and sent on their way.
Once they leave their doctor's office, there are many unknowns:
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What type of seizures do I have?
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When will a seizure will take place?
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How can loved ones administer effective seizure first aid?
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How should we manage their medication side effects?
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How to educate people in their lives about epilepsy and seizures?
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How to empower their lives while living with this often debilitating chronic disease?
Empowering Epilepsy's Free Patient Education Program better educates newly diagnosed people with epilepsy, those living with drug resistant epilepsy, and potential surgical candidates on how to:
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better manage their seizures
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provide their epilepsy specialists with the data they need to make a more accurate diagnosis and treatment plan sooner
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improve their overall quality of life.
Our Empowering Epilepsy Patient Education Program teaches people with epilepsy and their loved ones more about their specific diagnosis and treatment plan prescribed by their epileptologist. Educational content has been written by some of the top doctors, who specialize in epilepsy and seizures, from across the United States.
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Participants will meet one on one with Empowering Epilepsy's Epilepsy Educators either for an hour in person at Empowering Epilepsy's Headquarters in Beachwood, Ohio, or virtually via Zoom. They will receive educational inserts teaching them more about their individual diagnosis, placed in our Patient Education Folder. Educational Inserts are authored by some of the top Epilepsy Specialists in the country to help participants better understand their diagnosis and treatment plan.
This will help them and their loved ones more about their seizure type, specific prescribed anti-seizure medication with information from the pharmaceutical companies that develop the medications, as well as proactive steps and strategies they can take to help empower their lives. They can also use this to better educate people in their daily lives, as there is so much more to the epilepsy diagnosis than "just the seizures."
When an epilepsy specialist diagnoses a person with epilepsy, we encourage doctors to refer those newly diagnosed people with epilepsy to Empowering Epilepsy for our free Patient Education Program.
This free program has been made possible by the generous support of the following partners:
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Charles L. Shor Foundation
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The Charles R. Jelm Charitable Fund
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Tana Alexander - In Loving Memory of Robert Shanklin
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Meijer Community
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The Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation
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The Sam J. Frankino Foundation
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The Leonard Krieger Fund of the Cleveland Foundation
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The Samuel Reese Willis Foundation
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The Bicknell Fund
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The Samuel H. and Maria Miller Foundation
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The Leon and Gloria Plevin Family Foundation
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The Helen F. and Louis Stolier Family Foundation
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“....thank you for sharing valuable information on epilepsy. Your insights will be instrumental in helping me communicate effectively with medical professionals, especially Dr. A. Thanks to your guidance, I feel more confident navigating discussions and exploring treatment options. Thank you for your generosity and support."
Eric
Educational Insert Authors:
Top epilepsy specialists in the country
Pediatric Neuropsychologist Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center
Adult Neuropsychologist Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center
Epilepsy Fellow Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center
Adult Epileptologist Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center
Child Neurology Resident Cleveland Clinic
Director of Neuropsychiatry & Behavioral Neurology Rhode Island Hospital
Adult Epileptologist & Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost UCSF
Adult Epileptologist & Division Chief, Hospital Neurology Duke University
Epilepsy Psychiatrist Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center
Nurse Manager Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
Adult Epileptologist Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center
Epilepsy Pharmacist Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center
