Seizure treatment training comes to Putnam County Library

  • Event organizer Paula Moreland (far left) and instructor Dr. Rakale Quarells (center, in glasses) accompany successful students after they received two-year certifications as seizure responders from the Epilepsy Foundation and Emory University. CONTRIBUTED
    Event organizer Paula Moreland (far left) and instructor Dr. Rakale Quarells (center, in glasses) accompany successful students after they received two-year certifications as seizure responders from the Epilepsy Foundation and Emory University. CONTRIBUTED

    The Eatonton-Putnam Public Library played host to a seizure awareness and first-aid training session on Feb. 18, led by Dr. Rakale Quarells, a professor and director of the Epilepsy Advisory Board at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. The two-hour program also was endorsed by Emory University and organized by Eatonton native and longtime Epilepsy Foundation advocate Paula Moreland, an epilep…