Chapter Name: Club de Epilepsia,Dominican Republic
Report By: Dr.Diogenes Santos Viloria

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Summary of Activities:

2019

• In 2019 we organized a monthly conference each month about topics of diagnostic, classification, and treatment of epilepsies with participation of 50 members. After the presentation of a topic we discussed the most important things of the conference
• We discussed several cases of epilepsies  with some difficulties to make a diagnostic and no control of seizures, especially epileptics syndromes and and children and adults with cortical dysplasia.
• We held several conferences for the population specially in the chanels television and sometimes in the newspaper.
• All the topics during this year were done for specialist of the country that was graduate in foreign universities.

2020

• For the year of 2020 we had like all the countries in the worl problems with the Coronavirus and of course the comunications with the members was done in virtual way.
• In this particular year we invite via zoom several good speakers that partipate with entusiasm and spirit of cooperation and we enjoy very important topics .
• The speakers invited were
• Professor Ben Badis,neurologist-epileptologist
• Blanca Vasquez  Neurologist-epileptologist
• Roberto Caraballo, Neuroediatrist
• Mario Alonso Neurosurgeon specialist in epilepsy surgery
• Manuel Campos Neurosurgeon specialist en epilepsy surgery
• Professor Kuzniecky
• Depression like a comorbility in epilepsy
• We are planing for this year a foundation for better control of epileptics patients,specially patients with economic problems that no have sources to visit an epileptologist, and help them to adquire medication of low cost.

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