The drive to overcome the stigma associated with epilepsy will be the theme of this year’s national conference of the Caritas Malta Epilepsy Association. The conference is being held in conjunction with the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics of the University of Malta.

The conference will highlight the European Parliament’s recently approved Written Declaration on Epilepsy, which calls on the EU Commission to prioritise epilepsy as a major disease which imposes significant burden across Europe. There are over 3,000 persons who have been diagnosed with epilepsy in Malta and Gozo.

Among the speakers at the national conference will beCommissioner John Dalli, EU Commissioner for Health and Consumer Affairs, Mgr. Victor Grech, Director of Caritas Malta, Prof. Mike Kerr, from the Department of Psychological Medicine & Neurology, University of Cardiff, UK, and Ms Hanneke de Boer, Co-ordinator, WHO/IBE/ILAE Global Campaign against Epilepsy, Sein Epilepsy Centre, Netherlands.

Conference programme and application form may be downloaded here.

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