Empower Your Life Conference
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Only have your epileptologist to talk with about your epilepsy and seizures?
Join Empowering Epilepsy for our Empowering Epilepsy: Empower Your Life Conference to meet more of the 65,000 people and their families that live with epilepsy and seizures in Northeast Ohio.
Hear from some of the top epilepsy specialists in the country from right here in Northeast Ohio speak about proactive ways to empower your life. Learn realistic strategies to better manage your seizures and medication side effects.
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Doors open at 8 AM for registration and a continental breakfast. Speakers will discuss ways to live well with epilepsy and seizures.
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Saturday, October 18, 2025
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM EDT
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Empowering Epilepsy Headquarters
23500 Mercantile Road, Suite D
Beachwood, Ohio 44122
Join in-person or via Zoom virtually
Akron Children's Hospital
Atlanta Neuroscience Institute
Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center
MetroHealth Hospital System
SummaHealth
Agenda
Saturday, October 19, 2024 - Empower Your Life Conference Schedule:
8:00 - 8:30: Doors open: Continental Breakfast and Exhibitor Booths
8:30 - 8:40: Changing the Conversation - Leigh Goldie, M.Ed.
8:45 - 9:05: Epilepsy 101 - All About Epilepsy and Seizures: Patient Education - Leigh Goldie
9:10 - 9:30:: Focal Vs. Generalized Seizures - Michael Kohrman, MD
9:35 - 9:55: Epilepsy Testing - Ebru Erbayat, MD
10:00 - 10:30: Panel Discussion with Michael Kohrman & Ebru Erbayat
10:30 - 11:00: Break, Snack and Exhibitor Booths
11:00 - 11:20: Optimizing your Epilepsy Specialist Visit - Lawrence Seiden, MD
11:25 - 11:45: Medical Management of Epilepsy - Nicole Woodrich, PharmD
11:50 - 12:20: Panel Discussion with Lawrence Seiden and Nicole Woodrich
12:25 - 1:30: Lunch and Exhibitor Booths
1:30 - 1:50: Living with Epilepsy - Patrick Brown, MD
1:50 - 2:10: Epilepsy and Memory - Kayela Arrotta, PhD
2:10 - 2:30: Panel Discussion with Patrick Brown and Kayela Arrotta
2:30 - 2:50: Break, Snack, and Exhibitor Booth
2:50 - 3:10: Epilepsy and Diet - Marvin Rossi, MD
3:15 - 3:35: Epilepsy and the Law - Tyler Amick, Esq
3:40 - 4:00: Panel Discussion with Marvin Rossi and Tyler Amick
4:00 PM - Conference Ends