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ILAE Goals, Mission, and Strategy
The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) is the world's preeminent association of physicians and other health professionals working towards a world where no persons' life is limited by epilepsy.
Goals and Mission
ILAE's mission is to ensure that health professionals, patients and their care providers, governments, and the public world-wide have the educational and research resources that are essential in understanding, diagnosing and treating persons with epilepsy.
The goals of the ILAE are:
- To advance and disseminate knowledge about epilepsy
- To promote research, education and training
- To improve services and care for patients, especially by prevention, diagnosis
and treatment
Strategic Plan
How
the ILAE Works
- ILAE
has national chapters in more than 100
countries with over 15,000 members. Each national chapter has
elected officers and members who are doctors and other health
care professionals interested in epilepsy.
- ILAE
has an Executive Committee: President, Vice President, Secretary-General, Treasurer, and the Immediate Past President, and the Chair of each of the recognized ILAE regions as voting members for four year terms.
- ILAE
is funded from membership fees, Epilepsia
subscriptions, congresses and from sponsorships and charitable
donations.
- ILAE
has offices in Dublin, Ireland and
Connecticut, USA.
- ILAE
publishes an official journal, Epilepsia,
which is the leading, most authoritative source for current clinical
and research results on all aspects of epilepsy.
- ILAE
publishes a membership newsletter, Epigraph,
which is sent out twice a year.
- ILAE
holds scientific congresses
on a regular basis:
- International
congresses every two years in conjunction with the International
Bureau For Epilespy (IBE)
- Regional congresses
in each of its regions every two years
- National congresses
annually by each national chapter
- ILAE has formal links with the World
Health Organization (for the Global Campaign Against Epilepsy)
and with the International Bureau for Epilepsy (the world's leading
lay persons epilepsy association).
ILAE also conducts, in conjunction with WHO, a global
campaign entitled “Out
of the Shadows” the aim of which is to increase public and
professional awareness of epilepsy, as a universal treatable brain
disorder.
- ILAE has a listing of Faculty willing to speak and the languages they speak.
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