About the Scholarship Fund
The application deadline for the 2024-2025 School Year has passed.
Announcements about recipients for the 2024-2025 School Year were made in June 2024.
For your information, the application process includes the following:
Lorna Myers PNES Scholarship Announcement 2024
Lorna Myers PNES Scholarship Application 2024
Provider Statement – Lorna Myers PNES Scholarship – 2024
Reference Form- Lorna Myers PNES Scholarship 2024
If you would like to be notified when the applications are available for the 2025-2026 school year, or have questions about the application process, please email Lisa Gallipoli at lisa.gallipoli@epilepsyallianceamerica.org.
Meet Our Past Scholarship Recipients
Read a Testimonial about the impact of the Scholarship from a 2022 Recipient.
Read about the impact of PNES on the life of one of our Scholarship Recipients.
In 2024, Epilepsy Alliance America awarded TWENTY-TWO scholarships. Learn more here.
In 2023, Epilepsy Alliance America awarded NINE scholarships. Meet our 2023 Scholars
In 2022, Epilepsy Alliance America awarded FOUR scholarships. Meet our 2022 Scholars
In 2021, Epilepsy Alliance America awarded EIGHT scholarships. Meet our 2021 Scholars
About the Fund
Dr. Lorna Myers donates the royalties of her book, PSYCHOGENIC NON-EPILEPTIC SEIZURES: A GUIDE to Epilepsy Alliance America each year.
Epilepsy Alliance America manages a scholarship program for students with a diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) who are pursuing higher level education at a university or college or a trade, technical or professional school, using the funds from Dr. Myers.
Awards are based on the quality of applications through a competitive scoring system that balances need with achievement. Epilepsy Alliance America reserves the right to determine the amount of and number of scholarships given annually. At this time this is a one-time award. Awards are restricted to residents of the United States.
Learn more about PNES
Patricia Gibson and Dr. Lorna Myers at American Epilepsy Society meeting – December 2023
Donate to the Lorna Myers Scholarship Fund
Each year, Epilepsy Alliance America receives more scholarship applications from qualified applicants than we can fund. Consider making a restricted gift to the Lorna Myers PNES Scholarship Fund so that we can provide more scholarships this year.