Epilepsy-Need for Greater Understanding

The New York Chapter of the Epilepsy Association of America (EAA) holds a Communication Luncheon, offering a panel discussion of "A Need for Greater Understanding." The event was hosted by W. Walter Watts, with remarks from Howard J. Brown, Commissioner of Health and Health Services Administrator of the City of New York.

The panel, moderated by Dorothy Gordon of NBC, includes
Maurice Charlton, Director of the Seizure Clinic at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center

Fiona Graham, a psychiatrist at Columbia-Presbyterian

J. Meyer Lieman of the Bureau of Education of the Physically Handicapped
Sidney Lew, Assistant to the Director of Community Services for New York City; and
actress and activist Ethel Barrymore Colt.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 150594
Municipal archives id: T1634