Gavin Woodhall

Professor Gavin Woodhall, Aston University I have been working in the field of epilepsy research since the early 1990s. My laboratory focuses on how epilepsy gets started and then becomes established in the brain, a process we call epileptogenesis. I started my career as a scientist with a degree in Biochemistry at Southampton University, before […]

Sarah Gillett

Previously manager of a qualifications authority, Sarah Gillett has been Neurology Academy’s Managing Director for 15 years. With over 23 years’ experience of event management and educational development, she has specialised in courses designed to maximise beneficial impact on the NHS. Sarah has taken Neurology Academy from a collection of courses in Parkinson’s to a company that […]

Tara Denholm-Smith

Tara Denholm-Smith is an award-winning writer and freelance copywriter and an Ambassador for The Voice For Epilepsy. Specialising in website, advertising and marketing copy, Tara is also a qualified editor, proofreader and the proud founder of Composing Copy LLP. After working with The Voice For Epilepsy on a number of campaigns, it soon became clear […]

Jade Kelsie Wolfenden

Epilepsy is a big part of my life now, I didn’t get diagnosed until after turning twenty-one, not realising that I had been epileptic all my life, but it started out with absence seizures as a child and then tonic clonic ones which I don’t remember having. I used to have these with friends and they not knowing […]