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Seymour Diamond, MD Lectureship
Annually, in honor of the National Headache Foundation’ s Executive Chairperson and one of its founders, the Foundation presents the Seymour Diamond, M. D. Lectureship Award which recognizes the most significant paper in headache published during the past year.
Alyssa A. LeBel, MD
The 2016 recipient of the Seymour Diamond, M. D. Lectureship is Alyssa A. LeBel, MD. Doctor LaBel is Director of the Chronic Pain Program at Boston Children’ s Hospital, and Director, the Pediatric Headache Program, Boston Children’ s Hospital at Waltham, WA. She received a B. A. in Psychobiology at Wellesley College, where she was elected as a Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. LeBel received her M. D. from Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, and completed a residency in Pediatrics at Boston Floating Hospital for Infants and Children, New England Medical Center, and Tufts University School of Medicine, and finished a residency in Child Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Doctor LaBel serves as an Ad-Hoc reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine, the journal Pain, and Analgesia and Anesthesia. She is a member of the Committee for Headache Education of the American Headache Society. Doctor LaBel has published numerous articles in the professional literature.
Doctor LaBel’ s lecture,“ The Migraine Brain in Transition: Girls versus Boys,” is based on the article of the same title, which appeared in the journal, Pain, 2015; 156:2212-2221. Her coauthors were: Vanda Faria, Nathalie Erpelding, Adriana Johnson, Robert Wolff, Damien Fair, Rami Burstein, Lino Becerra, and David Borsook. The lecture was presented at the 29th Annual Practicing Physician’ s Approach to the Difficult Headache Patient, on February 14, 2016, in Newport Beach, CA. The course is sponsored by the Diamond Headache Clinic Research & Educational Foundation. HW
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