Founded by Chicagoans Mike and Mariann Stanton in January 2010 after the death of their four-year-old son Danny, the Danny Did Foundation works toward its mission to prevent deaths caused by seizures with these main goals in mind: advancing public awareness of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP), enhancing the SUDEP communication model between medical professionals and families afflicted by seizures, and the mainstreaming of seizure detection and prediction devices that may assist in preventing seizure-related deaths. We view these devices as complimentary to medicinal, surgical and dietary measures that are used to treat seizures.
Epilepsy impacts nearly three million people in the United States and 65 million people worldwide. One in 26 Americans will develop epilepsy over their lifetime. Seizures can sometimes be fatal from a range of causes; more people die as a result of seizures than from fires and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) combined. Thousands of deaths occur annually from SUDEP, status epilepticus (prolonged seizures), and other seizure-related causes such as drowning and other accidents. Find more information at www.facebook.com/DannyDid and www.twitter.com/dannydidorg. The name of the foundation originates from the last line of Danny's obituary, written by his dad: "Please go and enjoy your life. Danny did."
To achieve our goals, the DDF engages physicians and researchers in the fields of neurology and epileptology; we collaborate with medical technology companies; we consult with epilepsy organizations, and we interact with all those affected by Danny's story. We ask doctors to talk about SUDEP, and we offer ourselves as an outlet to which doctors can steer patients. We create informational pieces about safety in epilepsy in general and SUDEP in particular. We pursue the latest seizure detection and seizure prediction technologies, and once identified as viable and worthwhile instruments, we work to get these products approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration and then covered by insurance companies. We view these devices as complimentary to medicinal, surgical, and dietary measures that are used to treat seizures, and -with SUDEP accounting from an estimated 20 percent of seizure-related deaths- we believe that there is no such thing as too much prevention.
On Danny's first day of preschool, he told his teacher "I just want to learn." Like Danny, we also want to learn. We want to know why a worldwide medical condition is so widely misunderstood by the general public and how it has remained such a riddle to the global medical community. And because epilepsy has taken Danny from us, we will not stop questioning until we know the answer, and to this end we will engage all -from grammar school kids to internationally recognized epilepsy experts- in our effort to prevent another death caused by a seizure.
The Danny Did Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation organized in the state of Illinois and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. Our Tax ID number is 271642251.
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