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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