Charles (age 10)
Ironman Dad Raising Funds to provide Crucial Medical Equipment to Kids and Adults with LGS Charles will be competing in an Ironman competition to raise funds and awareness for the LGS Foundation’s Elevate Patient Assistance Program to help individuals like…
About Our Leadership Circle The LGS Foundation’s Leadership Circle members have the distinction of being our most supportive contributors, serving as investors in our mission, and acting as ambassadors on our behalf. Many are past Board of Director Members, and…
Thank you for an amazing 3rd Annual Swing “FORE” the Cures for LGS Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) is a severe epilepsy syndrome that develops in young children and often leads to lifelong disability. About 50,000 people in the United States and 1…
What is Lamotrigine? Lamotrigine (the generic name), also known as Lamictal (the brand name), is a medication used to treat epilepsy and stabilize mood in bipolar disorder. For epilepsy, this includes focal seizures, tonic-clonic seizures, and seizures in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome….
Every two years, the LGS Foundation organizes a comprehensive multi-day educational meeting. The conference brings together more than 350 LGS family members and epilepsy professionals from around the world to better understand the causes, treatments, and how to live with…
How Tracy Dixon-Salazar, PhD, the executive director of the LGS Foundation, went from a new mother to a neuroscientist, and her decades-long quest to improve the lives of patients like her daughter, Savannah.
Many who make the decision to enter the medical science field are often driven by a desire to help others. Physicians take the Hippocratic Oath and swear to treat the ill and do no harm, and researchers are, many times,…
01/05/2010 -04/14/2022
Joseph was born with a rare medical condition called cobolomine e abnormality he was the first in the US and first at birth in the world. Joseph fought a hard fight and showed them it can be done he got…
3/19/2004 - 10/01/2016
Johnathan was my first born. He was born premature and not breathing. Because of his traumatic birth, his brain endured an injury that caused a variety of disorders. One the many we would later discover was Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome. His journey…
11/25/2016 - 4/08/2022
There is so much. It was a long journey, yet not long enough all at once. For 5 years he consumed me. I will always miss him. I don’t even know what to say to explain our story. He was…
Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) is a rare and severe epilepsy disorder that begins in early childhood and affects “approximately 48,000 children and adults in the United States” and “1 million worldwide,” according to the LGS Foundation. This constitutes for only 1…
