Monday, July 20, 2009

RE: [epilepsy] a free online health chat on epilepsy Friday, July 24th

 

The Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center, one of the nation's top hospitals and
home to our nationally ranked Neurological Institute, is hosting a free
online health chat on epilepsy from noon to 1 p.m. (EST) Friday, July 24th.
During this one hour chat Ingrid Tuxhorn, MD, pediatric epileptologists will
answer questions from patients regarding management, treatment and care
options for children and adolescents living with epilepsy. More information
on this chat can be found at
http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/chatreg/tuxhorn.html
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xhorn.html>

If you think visitors to
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http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/epilepsy/ would be interested in this
free online health chat with a specialist in pediatric epilepsy, we would
appreciate an announcement or mention of the event on your message board.

Dr. Tuxhorn earned her medical degree from Cape Town University, South
Africa and has completed pediatric residencies at Baystate Medical Center in
Springfield, Mass., and Yale New Haven University Hospital in New Haven,
Conn.; a clinical research fellowship in child neurology at the University
of Kiel in Germany; a fellowship in pediatric neurology at the University of
Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Mass.; and a fellowship in
clinical neurophysiology at Cleveland Clinic. She is board-certified in
Pediatrics, board-eligible in Pediatric Neurology and board-eligible in
Clinical Neurophysiology. Her specialty interests include pediatric
epilepsy, epilepsy surgery, and cognitive and behavioral outcomes after
pediatric epilepsy surgery.

State-of-the-art diagnostic capabilities, extensive medical and surgical
treatment programs and an active research focus that has yielded important
basic and clinical science contributions have made the Cleveland Clinic
Epilepsy Center a place of national and international prominence as a
leading facility for the management and investigation of epilepsy. The
Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center is a place of national and international
prominence as a leading facility for the management and investigation of
epilepsy. Last year the Epilepsy Center staff members saw more than 4,000
adults and 2,000 pediatric patients and performed more than 300 surgical
procedures. The Epilepsy Center also uses the most advanced invasive and
noninvasive technology available to localize the epileptic focus and develop
a targeted treatment plan.

Thanks for your consideration. Please feel free to contact me directly if
you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Laura Vasile

Marketing Associate

Cleveland Clinic

Phone: 216.448.1054

Email: <blocked::blocked::blocked::mailto:vasilel@ccf.org> vasilel@ccf.org

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