Boston University 35th Annual Winter Headache Symposium 2025

• Target Audience: neurologists, primary care providers, dentists, psychologists
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The 2025 Winter HCNE Headache Symposium

Old Greenwich, CT US March 7, 2025 to March 8, 2025

This exciting symposium is designed for physicians, dentists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, physical therapists, and other health professionals to learn from the leaders in headache medicine.

Target Audience

This program is designed to educate practitioners who have an interest in the diagnosis and management of headache disorders. These include neurologists, primary care providers, dentists, psychologists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physical therapists, and other health care providers with an interest in Headache Medicine.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

Describe the classification, diagnosis, treatment strategies and ways to measure outcome for the common primary headache disorders

Examine the most recent evidence for the acute and preventive treatment of migraine

Discuss recent advances in understanding the pathophysiology of migraine and cluster headache.

Describe functional and structural imaging findings in migraine and cluster headache

Discuss the relationship between migraine and obesity and the multifaceted role of GLP-1 receptor agonists

Describe the relationship between migraine and cognition.

Discuss diagnosis, treatment and controversies in vestibular migraine

Describe Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) and spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) diagnosis, imaging and treatment.

Discuss recent evidence-based migraine treatments in children and adolescents

Discuss clinical characteristics, pathophysiology, neuroimaging, and treatment considerations for post-traumatic headache

Describe headache disparities in vulnerable and underserved populations in the practice of headache medicine

• Topics:

Day 1

Friday, March 7, 2025

Breakfast

Welcome and Introduction – Steven Baskin, PhD, Thomas Ward, MD, Alan Rapoport, MD

Part 1

Moderator

Elizabeth Loder, MD

Session 1

Approach to the Headache Patient: Migraine Mimics – Lawrence Newman, MD

Session 2

What’s New?  Practice Pearls from Recent Studies – Christopher Gottschalk, MD

Discussion

Fred Cohen, MD

Q&A

Break

Part 2

Moderator

Thomas Ward, MD

Session 3

Update on the Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias (TACs) – Emmanuelle Schindler, MD, PhD

Session 4

Cluster Headache and Hypoxia – Jonathan Borkum, PhD

Session 5

A New Spin on Vestibular Migraine – Morris Levin, MD

Discussion

Brian Grosberg, MD

Q&A

Lunch and product theater

Lunch and Product Theater

Part 3

Moderator

Peter McAllister, MD

Session 6

IIH and SIH diagnosis, imaging and treatment – Brian Frishberg, MD

Discussion

Shuhan Zhu, MD

Session 7

Obesity and Headache – Richard Lipton, MD

Session 8

Your Brain, Body and the Gila Monster: Multifaceted Role of GLP-1’s – Shivang Joshi, MD, MPH, RPh

Discussion

Noah Rosen, MD

Q&A

Break

Part 4

Moderator

Paul Rizzoli, MD

Session 9

Fellow Talks

Session 10

Headache Medicine Disparities: Contributing Factors and Mitigation Strategies to Consider – Cynthia Armand, MD

Discussion

Tanya Bilchik, MD

Q&A

Introduction Lifetime Achievement Award – Brian McGeeney, MD, MPH, MBA

My Life in Headache Medicine – Bob Wold

Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me “The HCNE Version” – Morris Levin & Participants

Wine and Cheese Reception

Day 2

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Breakfast

HCNE Annual Meeting

Part 6

Moderator

Randall Weeks, PhD

Session 11

Migraine and Cognition – Elizabeth Seng, PhD

Discussion

Robert Duarte, MD

Session 12

Post-Traumatic Headache – Alan Finkel, MD

Session 13

Concussion and Post-Traumatic Headache in Youth – Catherine Patterson Gentile, MD, PhD

Discussion

Bridget Mueller, MD, PhD

Q&A

Break

Part 7

Moderator

Andrea Harriott, MD, PhD

Session 14

Structural and Functional Imaging in Migraine – Nouchine Hadjikani, MD, PhD

Session 15

Future Anti-Migraine Targets – Sait Ashina, MD

Discussion

William Renthal, MD, PhD

Q&A

Lunch and TBD

Part 8

Moderator

Robert Shapiro, MD, PhD

Introduction Lifetime Achievement Award – Elizabeth Loder, MD, MPH

My Life in Headache Medicine – Dawn Buse, PhD

Part 9

Moderator

Paul Rizzoli, MD

Session 16

Coddon Fellow and Fellow Talks

Break

Part 10

Moderator

Herbert Markley, MD

Session 17

Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning in Headache Medicine – Chia-Chun Chiang, MD, PhD

Discussion

Alexander Mauskop, MD

Session 18

Sleep Devices for Managing Headache Disorders – Brij Chandwani, DMD

Discussion

Adelene Jann, MD

Q&A

Wine and Cheese Reception

Agenda is subject to change without notice