NHF News
Board Changes
On September 1, 2017, Robert S. Kunkel, MD who
served as President of the Board from 1994 to 2005, was
named a Director Emeritus by Seymour Diamond, MD,
Executive Chairman and Founder.
Three new members joined the National Headache
Foundation Board in October, 2017: James W. Banks,
III, MD; Katherine Allen Kessler, Esq; and, Tad Seifert,
MD. We are sad to report that Doctor James Banks passed
away on July 18, while we were preparing to go to press. We
will include Dr. Banks’ obituary in the next issue.
Katherine Allen Kessler, Esq. is a
Managing Director and Associate
General Counsel at Citigroup Inc.
in New York City. Prior to joining
Citigroup in 2004, Katie was an
attorney in the litigation departments
at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and
Latham & Watkins. Katie grew up in New York City and
attended the Fieldston School. She has a BA from Emory
University, Atlanta, GA, and a JD from Duke University
School of Law, Durham, NC.
Tad Seifert, MD is Director of
Norton Healthcare’s Sports Neurology
Program in Louisville, Kentucky.
He is a graduate of the University
of Oklahoma College of Medicine
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He
completed his residency in neurology
at the University of Texas-Houston and a subsequent
fellowship in headache & facial pain at the renowned
Houston Headache Clinic. Dr. Seifert is an Independent
Neurotrauma Consultant for the National Football
League, and serves as Head of the NCAA’s Headache Task
Force. He is currently the Team Neurologist for a number
of Kentucky and Indiana-based colleges and universities
and is Chairman of the Kentucky Boxing & Wrestling
Commission’s Medical Advisory Panel. His research
interests include post-traumatic headache in athletes as
well as combat sports medicine.
Two members, Josh Friedman, Esq. and Alan Rosenberg,
MD, resigned from the Board during 2018. We wish to
thank them for their support and counsel during their
tenure on the Board.
LECTURESHIPS
On an annual basis, the NHF awards two lectureships to recognize achievement in headache medicine. This year,
the lectures were presented at the Diamond Headache Clinic Research & Educational Foundation 32nd Annual The
Practicing Physician’s Approach to the Difficult Headache Patient, which was held at the La Costa Resort and Spa, Carlsbad,
CA, from February 16 through 18, 2018.
The Seymour Diamond, M.D. 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. This year’s recipient
was Timothy T. Houle, Ph.D.
Doctor Houle is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. He previously served as Associate Professor on
Anesthesiology and Neurology, at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, and as Adjunct Research
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
He received his BA in Psychology (Magna Cum Laude), from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and PhD
in Clinical Psychology, at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL. Doctor Houle completed a Postdoctoral
Residency in Clinical Psychology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. He completed a
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pain Psychology at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Dr. Houle is a member of the American Headache Society, and served as the Chair of its Research Methods Section from
2013 through 2015. He is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Southern Headache Society.
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