National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month
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National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month
The month of June is designated National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month . The theme for 2013 is Unmasking the Mystery of Chronic Headache Disorders . We will be doing a media blitz about this issue . Please watch our website for any planned events .
Special Lectureships
Wade Cooper , DO receiving his award from Roger Cady , MD
Nasim Maleki , PhD receiving her award from Roger Cady , MD
Annually , the National Headache Foundation awards two special lectureships . On February 18 , 2013 , these lectures were presented during the postgraduate course , The 26th Annual Practicing Physician ’ s Approach to the Difficult Headache Patient , at the Westin Mission Hills , in Rancho Mirage , California . The course is sponsored by the Diamond Headache Clinic Research and Educational Foundation .
The National Headache Foundation Lectureship was awarded to Wade M . Cooper , DO , of the University of Michigan Headache and Neuropathic Pain Clinic . As the premier educational and informational resource for those living with headache disorders , their family members , physicians , allied health professionals , and health policy decision makers , the NHF created this award to preserve the highest level of neurobiological research and advancement in medicine today . Recipients of the award prove themselves to be up-and-coming physicians and scientists who have demonstrated interest in the management of common and complex headache problems .
Doctor Cooper ’ s lecture , “ Allergy and Migraine : The Role of Mast Cells ,” was well-received by the attendees . We hope to include a summary of his lecture in a future issue of Head Wise .
The recipient of the 2013 Seymour Diamond , MD Lectureship was Nasim Maleki , PhD , who is an Instructor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Boston Children ’ s Hospital and Harvard Medical School . This lectureship was established in 2005 to honor the Executive Chairman and Founder of the National Headache Foundation – Seymour Diamond , MD . The award recognizes the most significant paper in headache which was published during the past year .
Doctor Maleki ’ s lecture , “ Her Versus Him Migraine : Multiple Sex Differences in Brain Function and Structure ,” is based on the article of the same title which appeared in the journal , Brain , Volume 135 , 2012 . Her coauthors were Clas Linnman , Jennifer Brawn , Rami Burstein , Lino Becerra , and David Borsook . As with Doctor Cooper ’ s lecture , we hope to publish a summary of Doctor Maleki ’ s lecture in an upcoming issue of Head Wise .
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