Create Your Migraine Action Plan

Miles for Migraine - Patient Education Event

In light of the current COVID guidelines and restrictions, we have redesigned our Education Days to be online, free and shorter in length while still delivering up to the moment information and valuable education on migraine and other headache diseases.

Our usual Education Day is delivered through lectures and experiential sessions. Our new format will include both, when possible. We vary the sessions topics so you can attend those that are of interest to you. Topics will cover coping strategies, advocacy, reducing stigma, research, and medical advancements. All presenters will field your questions. Join us for as many events as you are able. Each event will feature different content.

THIS WILL BE A VIRTUAL EVENT TO BE HELD ON

MONDAY, AUGUST 30TH FROM 7:00PM - 8:45PM EASTERN TIME

Dr. Lauren Doyle Strauss - Making a Migraine Action Plan

Dr. Strauss is a Child Neurologist in Winston Salem, NC and is affiliated with Brenner Children's Hospital and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. She received her medical degree from New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, trained in child neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and headache medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Strauss’s work as a pediatric neurologist centers on improving the lives of children with headache disorders through educating patients, parents and other healthcare professionals.

Dr. Rebecca Erwin Wells - Mindfulness for Migraine

Dr. Wells is an expert in Headache Medicine and Integrative Medicine, having completed fellowships in both specialties through Harvard Medical School. She has NIH funding to research mind-body interventions for migraine relief, evaluating the efficacy and mechanisms of mindfulness for migraine. Dr. Wells is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Wake Forest Baptist Health in North Carolina, where she founded and directs their Comprehensive Headache Program and serves as an Associate Director of Clinical Research at their Center for Integrative Medicine. She graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with highest honors, Brody School of Medicine-East Carolina University, and Harvard School of Public Health where she obtained her Master’s in Public Health. She completed Internship and Neurology residency at University of Virginia. She has been a “Best Doctor of America” since 2015, serves as Treasurer of the Southern Headache Society, and has recently been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Headache Society. Her research receives frequent media attention, including interviews with Time magazine, NPR, BBC News, Boston Globe, and Prevention magazine. She has published many articles and presented frequently to national audiences as an expert in headache, mind/body, and integrative medicine.

Dr. Nauman Tariq - Dizziness & Migraine

I have a special interest in refractory headaches and facial pain cases. I strive to care for patients with these issues.” Dr. Tariq is board certified in neurology and headache medicine. He specializes in migraines, cluster headaches, trigeminal neuralgia, chronic post-traumatic headaches, cervicogenic headaches and orofacial pain. In addition, Dr. Tariq specializes in dizziness, headaches during pregnancy, idiopathic intracranial hypertension, spontaneous intracranial hypotension (CSF leak headaches), nerve blocks and botulinum toxin procedures for headaches and facial pain. He currently serves as the director of the Headache and Facial Pain program at Atrium Health and formerly served as the director of the Headache Center at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Tariq is currently involved in research focusing on trans-nasal dehumidified air therapy for migraine. Dr. Tariq received his medical degree at the National University of Sciences and Technology. He completed a residency at the University of Minnesota and a fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic.