About

Andrew Charles, MD, FAHS

Andrew Charles is the president of the American Headache Society. He is a Professor of Neurology at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he holds the Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Migraine and Headache Studies. He is Director of the UCLA Goldberg Migraine Program, a multidisciplinary team that does basic and clinical research, education, and care of patients with headache disorders.

Lisa Jacobson

Lisa Jacobson, founder of TheDailyMigraine.com and inventor of The Migraine Hat, is a stalwart member of the migraine community with a track record of generating support and advocacy. She previously founded Inspirica, a test preparation and academic tutoring company, and split her time between that and The Daily Migraine. Lisa has decades of work in connecting those living with migraine to one another, providing care and support to the community and raising awareness for the disease.

Byron Pitts

Byron Pitts is an American journalist and author working for ABC News, and current co-anchor for the network’s late night news program, Nightline. Until March 2013, he served as a chief national correspondent for The CBS Evening News and contributed regularly to 60 Minutes. Mr. Pitts is a person living with cluster headache.

Rochelle Weitzner

Rochelle Weitzner, founder & CEO of Pause Well-Aging is a seasoned C-suite executive and beauty industry veteran. She was the CEO of Erno Laszlo, CFO of Laura Mercier & Revive Skincare and spent the 19 years before that with International Paper in various SVP finance roles for $1+ billion businesses within IP. Rochelle graduated from Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business with a BSM in business and a dual major in finance and accounting. She earned her MBA from Vanderbilt University’s Owen School of Business.

Royce Warrick

Royce Warrick is Sr. VP, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer for Solenis. She is responsible for the multinational’s legal, IP, data privacy, compliance, governance affairs and EHS/product regulatory/quality functions. Warrick is a member of Solenis’ Executive Committee and Global Leadership Team. Prior to joining Solenis in 2014, Warrick served as Assistant General Counsel and Global Corporate Legal Director overseeing legal affairs of strategic business units at The Dow Chemical Company and Rohm and Haas Company. Beginning her legal career as a litigation attorney, she later expanded her experience to include business law, ethics and compliance, M&A, antitrust, employment law, IT and corporate secretarial/governance. Warrick holds a bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a Juris Doctor degree from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. Warrick is on the Advisory Council of Villanova University’s Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women’s Leadership, and is a member of the Forum of Executive Women, the Delaware Sustainable Chemistry Alliance Advisory Board, the Duke University Alumni Admissions Advisory Committee and the GA Tech Parents Board. She is executive sponsor of the Women’s International Network of Solenis, a founding leader of her church’s College Prep Ministry, and a founder and trustee of the Roy Blair Paige Foundation, a non-profit organization, the mission of which is to enrich the development of servant-leader youth committed to community-uplift. Warrick is a former board member of the STEM-focused Invent Now Kids® organization, a subsidiary of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation commissioned by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Warrick is a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware bars. She is married and has three daughters.

Jon Summer

Jon Summer is the Founder of Cyber Group, a patient advocate and longtime entrepreneur that is affected both professionally and personally by migraine.

“I am optimistic we can help the public recognize the severity of the problem and provide a better future for all affected,” says Summer.

Rachel Irwin Koh

Rachel has an MBA from Babson College, and is an active Executive Committee member with the International Headache Society – Global Patient Advocacy Coalition. She was previously a moderator in the AMF Move Against Migraine Face Book Support group, and retains her position as an Administrator in that group. She has provided patient testimonials with the US Pain Foundation, National Headache Foundation, MigraineAgain.com, and others, which have been published in the last 2 years. She is a regular participant in the annual Headache on the Hill event to lobby US Congress. She gave testimony to ICER for guidelines on CGRP medications, and was a patient voice for Amgen marketing research before its release of a CGRP medication. She has been a contributing author on industry papers, including Integrating New Migraine Treatments into Clinical Practice: Principles of Acute and Preventive Management.

Prior to Headache Patient Advocacy, Rachel was a proven IT professional with more than 20 years of success, acquiring deep experience navigating politics, leading initiatives, and implementing solutions across the complexities of large organizations.

Todd Schwedt

Stewart Tepper

Stewart J. Tepper, MD, is a Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire and is Director of the Dartmouth Headache Center. Dr Tepper was Director of the American Headache Society Scottsdale Headache Symposium from 2008 to 2020. Dr. Tepper serves on the Executive Board of Directors and is the Corporate Liaison for the American Headache Society. He also serves on the Governance Committee and Board of Directors of the American Migraine Foundation. He has published more than 430 peer-reviewed manuscripts, editorials, and books on Headache Medicine.

Linda McGillicuddy

Linda McGillicuddy is the former CEO of the American Headache Society (AHS) and has over 25 years of experience in leadership roles. In her time at AHS, McGillicuddy helped raise funding and support for educational programs. McGillicuddy helped develop and implement headache centers across the United States. These centers continue to improve access to care for patients in need.

“It’s an honor and privilege to be working for a foundation that is doing so much for those living with migraine,” says McGillicuddy. “I’m really looking forward to helping AMF as it continues to elevate the voices of the migraine community and strive for better migraine education, resources and advocacy.”

Heather Phillips, MEd

Heather brings a diversified background in the corporate, education and healthcare sectors spanning over 15 years. Early in her career she was responsible for event marketing and hospitality management, managing conferences and exhibitions with large pharmaceutical and entertainment corporations capitalizing on her attention to detail, strong communication and negotiation skills. With a Master’s in Education and Health Promotion, she merged her professional experience working in private practice to managing community health and clinically based health prevention programs for one of the nation’s top integrated health care delivery networks.

Heather has held many leadership roles within her local region and state, developing projects from conception to implementation for clinical programs and events. She serves on the executive board of prominent cancer foundation along with other local and regional committees leveraging her experience in strategic planning, and board and committee management. As someone who lives with migraine, Heather is committed to the mission of AMF to help improve the lives of those living with migraine and incapacitating effects of this invisible disease.

Steven M. Baskin, PhD

Steven M. Baskin, PhD, is co-director of behavioral medicine services at The New England Institute for Neurology and Headache in Stamford, CT and is an attending psychologist at Greenwich Hospital of Yale-New Haven Health. He also has a private practice in clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology.  He is a medical psychologist (prescribing psychologist) at Crescent City Headache and Neurology in New Orleans.  He is a current member of the board of directors of the Headache Cooperative of New England (HCNE) and is the educational director for the annual HCNE Scientific Meeting at Stowe.  He is a past board member of the American Headache Society and a past Associate Editor of the journal Headache®. He is a past president of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB). He lectures frequently at national and international meetings and has published extensively on primary headache disorders, most recently on comorbid psychiatric factors that may chronify migraine and complicate treatment.

Chia-Chun Chiang, MD

Chia-Chun Chiang, MD, is a Senior Associate Consultant, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She graduated from Neurology Residency and Headache Fellowship at Mayo Clinic Arizona. Additionally, she also completed a Vascular Neurology fellowship at University of California, San Diego. She received her medical degree from National Yang Ming University in Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Chiang’s clinical and research interest is the relationship between cerebrovascular disorders and headache. Dr. Chiang has received many awards including the Frontiers in Headache Research Scholarship Award by the American Headache Society, and the Manfred D. Muenter Award for excellence in clinical neurology during residency at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Chiang has conducted multiple research projects in headache medicine and vascular neurology, and has published in reputed journals including Cephalalgia, Headache, and The Lancet Neurology. She currently serves as an assistant editor for the Headache Journal, and a reviewer for journals including Cephalalgia, Headache, Cephalalgia Reports, and The Neurologist.

A. Laine Green, MD, FAHS

A. Laine Green, MD, FAHS, is from Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. He completed an undergraduate and graduate degree in synthetic organic chemistry prior to medical school. He completed his Medical School and Neurology residency training at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He completed his headache medicine fellowship with Dr. David Dodick at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. His first year of fellowship was on the University of Arizona Campus in Tucson in the lab of Dr. Frank Porreca completing a preclinical project in medication overuse and cortical spreading depression. His second year of fellowship was the clinical based year with Dr. Dodick in Scottsdale. After fellowship Laine returned to Halifax and was an Assistant Professor with the Division of Neurology at Dalhousie University for 5 years. He is a headache specialist at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.

Kaitlin Greene, MD

Kaitlin Greene, MD, is a pediatric neurologist specializing in caring for children and adolescents with headache. She is the director of the Child and Adolescent Headache Program at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, OR, where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics. She is an active member of the American Headache Society.

Rashmi Halker Singh, MD, FAHS

Rashmi Halker Singh, MD, FAHS, is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Mayo Clinic. She completed her neurology residency and headache medicine fellowship at Mayo Clinic before joining faculty. Her academic interests include migraine and other primary headache disorders. Dr. Halker Singh is the headache fellowship program director at Mayo Clinic, and the co-director of the Mayo Clinic Headache Symposium. She is also very involved with the American Headache Society, where she is the immediate past Chair of the Women’s Health Special Interest Group, is a member of the annual Scottsdale Headache Symposium planning committee, the Electronic Media Committee, the Emerging Leaders Program Committee, and is a co-director of the AHS REACH program. She is also the Online and Social Media Editor of the Headache Journal, the official publication of the American Headache Society, and is also an Editorial Board Member of the American Migraine Foundation. She is also interested in utilizing virtual platforms to build professional communities, and is a moderator of the Women Neurologists Group and an admin of the Migraine Mavens social media network. Dr. Halker Singh is a Fellow of both the American Headache Society and the American Academy of Neurology.

Joshua Lai, MD

Joshua Lai, MD, completed his medical degree, Neurology residency, and additional headache training at the University of British Columbia. He is a member of the Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation, the Canadian Headache Society, and the American Headache Society. He has presented at international headache conferences including the International Headache Academy, iHEAD meeting, and International Headache Society meeting. His current research in collaboration with the Stroke Prevention Clinic at Vancouver General Hospital focuses on patients with persistent headaches after stroke. Dr. Lai works with patients with headache and general neurological disorders in private practice and at Vancouver General Hospital.

Teshamae Monteith, MD, FAHS

Teshamae Monteith, MD, FAHS, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology. After graduating with a medical degree at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, she completed Neurology residency at New York University and then pursued two fellowships in headache medicine at Thomas Jefferson University and University of California, San Francisco. She is currently the chief of the Headache Division, director of the headache fellowship, and chair of both the wellness and diversity committees within the Department of Neurology at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine.

Dr. Monteith is a co-recipient of the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Award, and fellow of the AAN and the American Headache Society. She serves as an editorial advisor for the Brain and Life Magazine and is a senior contributor for the Neurology Podcast/Neurology Minute. She is also a recent fellow recipient of the OpEd project.

She has served on several advisory boards for migraine therapeutics and conducts several clinical trials in headache. She has been previously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) supplements to promote diversity in health-related research and work in migraine, stroke, and imaging biomarkers. She has published in a number of prominent journals in headache medicine and neurology and has lectured nationally on topics such as headache disorders and migraine.

Serena Orr, MD, FAHS

Serena Orr, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FAHS, is a pediatric neurologist with a subspecialty in headache medicine and the director of the pediatric headache program at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has a strong interest in clinical research and is particularly interested in the acute treatment of migraine and the relationship between internalizing symptoms and migraine in children and adolescents.

Claire Sandoe, MD, MSc

Claire Sandoe, MD, MSc, is a neurologist at the Women’s College Hospital Centre for Headache in Toronto, Canada. She completed her medical degree and a Masters of Neuroscience at McGill University, her neurology residency at the University of Toronto, and a fellowship in Headache Medicine at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Dr. Christine Lay. She is also the co-director of the University of Toronto Neurology Residency Program Early Mentorship Group. Her main areas of interest include medical education, hormones and headache, the health effects of adverse childhood experiences, and trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias.

Alison Thaler, MD

Ira Turner, MD

Ira Turner, MD, is a board certified neurologist whose main areas of expertise include migraine and headache. With over 50 years of experience in the medical field, he is dedicated to sharing his extensive knowledge as a speaker for physician conferences, teleconferences and patient events. In addition to the American Migraine Foundation, he is also involved in the American Academy of Neurology, American Headache Society, International Headache Society, American Council for Headache Education and National Headache Foundation.

Juliana VanderPluym, MD, FAHS

Juliana VanderPluym, MD, FAHS, is an Assistant Professor and Consultant in the Department of Neurology within the Division of Headache at the Mayo Clinic Arizona. She received her Doctor of Medicine with Special training in Research from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and also completed her residency training in Pediatric Neurology at the University of Alberta. She is a fellow of the American Headache Society. She has been elected to her second term as Chair of the New Investigator and Trainee Special Interest Group of the American Headache Society.

Angeliki Vgontzas, MD

Angeliki Vgontzas, MD, received her medical degree from Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA. She completed her Neurology residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, New York, where she was also mentored by the headache specialists at the Montefiore Headache Center. She completed her headache fellowship at the John R. Graham Headache Center, part of Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School (BWH/HMS), where she is currently an Instructor in the department of Neurology and also serves as the clinical director for outpatient general neurology.

She has spent dedicated time in the research of migraine and pain since 2005. She was awarded an NIH intramural research training award and spent two years studying migraine in the Genetic Epidemiology Research Branch at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, MD. While at NIH, she helped develop a research tool to assess sleep patterns and problems in patients with migraine. She continues to research sleep, migraine and genetics while at BWH/HMS and her work is reflected in numerous peer-reviewed publications on sleep and migraine.

She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Headache Society and International Headache Society.