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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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