DSF President Lori O'Driscoll will appear on Lifetime TV

We are proud to announce there will be interviews about Epilepsy on the Lifetime show Health Corner with Joan Lunden, which is brought to you by Walgreens.  It will air on Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 9:30AM.  Please check your local listing.  Health Corner, a weekly series sponsored by Walgreens, focuses on health issues important to women.

Health Corner also includes real people's touching stories, medical breakthroughs from coast to coast, "Kids' Corner", about your child's mind, body and spirit, and "That Certain Something", focusing on health, style and beauty.

The interview will include Lori and Liam O'Driscoll, who talk about their beautiful daughter Ciara lives with Dravet Syndrome, Dravet syndrome, a rare and catastrophic form of epilepsy beginning in childhood, and related conditions.  Doctor Kenneth P. Vives, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics Director at The Yale University School of Medicine and me.  Each of us were interviewed by Sara Welch.  Sara along cameraman Bruce and sound man Bud were great to all of us and doing these interviews truly showed each of them how Epilepsy effects so many life's.  The interviews are brief but compelling.  So please make your family members and friends Aware about this and watch it.  Remember to set up your VCR or DVD recorder so you can see it again and again.  Speaking of seeing it again, you will be able to do so on Sunday, August 20, 2010, same time and same station.

Our heartfelt thanks goes out to Joan Lunden and her staff members along with Sara Welch, cameraman Bruce and sound man Bud.