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One of SUDEP Aware's goals is to help raise awareness within
the health care and lay communities:
Raising awareness in 2010:
| October 28-30 | SUDEP presentation and promotion of SUDEP Aware's mission
and goals at 2010 Annual Education Conference for Coroners & Pathologists, Toronto.
Elizabeth Donner & Tamzin Jeffs | | October 1-3 | Promotion of SUDEP Aware's mission and goals at 2010 Canadian Epilepsy
Meeting, Kingston.
Tamzin Jeffs & Elizabeth Donner | | June 9 | Presentation: "Canadian SUDEP Register for Children" to
Canadian Pediatric Epilepsy Network, Quebec City.
Elizabeth
Donner & Tamzin Jeffs | | May 13-14 | Promotion of SUDEP Aware's mission and goals at Centre for Forensic Science & Medicine
Conference "Death Investigation and Forensic Medicine for Police, Coroners and Pathologists", Toronto.
Tamzin Jeffs & Elizabeth Donner | | March 22 | Presentation: "The Impact of
Sudden Death in Epilepsy" at American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, 42nd Annual Educational Meeting, Baltimore,
USA.
Thanks to funding by Epilepsy Foundation.
Tamzin Jeffs & Tess Sierzant (HealthEast Care System, St Joseph's Hospital, MN, USA) | | March 1 | Promotion of SUDEP Aware's mission and goals with Ontario's Members
of Provincial Parliament at an Information Session on Epilepsy for Purple Day, Legislative Building, Queens Park, Toronto.
Tamzin Jeffs | | February 24 | Presentation: "SUDEP: Case Studies" at Paediatric Rounds,
Toronto East General Hospital, Toronto.
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Raising awareness in 2009:
| December
4-8 | Promotion of SUDEP Aware's mission and goals at American Epilepsy
Society Annual Meeting, Boston, USA.
Elizabeth Donner & Tamzin Jeffs | | November 20-21 | Promotion
of SUDEP Aware's mission and goals at Pathology Update 2009, Toronto.
Elizabeth Donner & Tamzin
Jeffs | | November 9 | Presentation: "SUDEP: Case Studies" at 9th Annual Neuroscience Day at the Hospital for
Sick Children, Toronto.
Elizabeth Donner | | May
24 | Participant in Table Top Talk on 'SUDEP' at
World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses Congress 2009, Toronto.
Tamzin Jeffs | | April 29 | Presentation: "Sudden
Unexplained Death in Epilepsy: Case Studies" at Contemporary Clinical Issues and Case Studies Plenary Session,
American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting 2009, Seattle, USA.
Elizabeth Donner | | April 22 | Presentation: "SUDEP:
Clinical, Personal & Ethical Considerations" at UHN Epilepsy Program Research/UTERP Rounds, Toronto Western
Hospital, Toronto.
Elizabeth Donner, Tamzin Jeffs & Christine Harrison | | March 31 | Promotion of SUDEP Aware's
mission and goals with Ontario's Members of Provincial Parliament at an Information Session on Epilepsy
for Purple Day, Legislative Building, Queens Park, Toronto.
Tamzin Jeffs | | March 6
| SUDEP presentation
at J.C. Richardson Neurology Subspeciality Day event, University of Toronto, Toronto.
Elizabeth Donner
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Raising awareness in 2008:
| November 19 | Presentation:
"SUDEP: Clinical, Personal & Ethical Considerations" at Neurology Grand Rounds, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
Elizabeth Donner,
Tamzin Jeffs & Christine Harrison | | November 12-14 | Participant & Session Moderator at SUDEP workshop, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Maryland, USA.
Elizabeth Donner | | November
1 | Meeting
for SUDEP-affected families, Toronto.
Elizabeth Donner & Tamzin Jeffs | | October 4 | Presentation: "SUDEP: Clinical,
Personal & Ethical Considerations" at Joint 7th
Canadian Epilepsy Research Initiative (CERI) & Canadian Epilepsy Alliance (CEA) meeting, London, Ontario.
Elizabeth Donner,
Tamzin Jeffs & Christine Harrison | |
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SUDEP Aware's
co-founders, Dr Elizabeth Donner and Tamzin Jeffs, are very grateful to Dr Christine Harrison, Director Bioethics, The Hospital
for Sick Children, Toronto for her generous donation of time and expertise towards our presentations covering the ethical
considerations of SUDEP.
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