“Having trained and practiced in the highest-level epilepsy centers in India, Brazil, and the United States (ie. Cleveland Clinic), it is abundantly clear that most of the medical and surgical advancements being discussed in national and international conferences are largely irrelevant to patients in rural regions which lack even basic epilepsy care, no less comprehensive epilepsy centers. This was certainly true in Central California until the Kern Medical Epilepsy Center was created. This could not have been possible without the unique resource-sharing strategy of the USC Epilepsy Consortium and the unmitigated support of many experts in the partner institutions. It may be in Kern and neighboring counties that the true impact of this effort is the greatest, and most improbable”