Expert Details
Neurology: Headache, Migraine, Menstrual Migraine, Pain Management
ID: 726429
Tennessee, USA
Expert has been active in clinical trials for more than a decade. She has served as the principal or co-principal investigator in more than 80 studies, primarily examining issues in migraine including acute treatment, prophylaxis and menstrual migraine. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including JAMA, Cephalalgia, Headache, and Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Expert also lectures nationally and internationally on her research and clinical expertise.
Expert is a Fellow of the American Headache Society and the American Academy of Neurology. She is a former member of the board of Directors of the American Headache Society and is the past-president of the American Council for Headache Education. In recognition of her professional endeavors, she has been named to Best Doctors in the America from 1996 to present.
Education
Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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Year: 1989 | Degree: MD | Subject: Medicine | Institution: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
Year: 1980 | Degree: MS | Subject: Microbiology | Institution: University of Tennessee |
Year: 1975 | Degree: BS | Subject: Biology | Institution: Mississippi University of Women |
Work History
Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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Years: 1996 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Director | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:Expert founded the Nashville Neuroscience Group in 1996 as a private practice headache and general neurology clinic based in Nashville, Tennessee. In her role as director, Expert is responsible for the management of the full-time clinic as well as the clinical research department and for all publications in journals and books. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1995 to 1996 | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Consulting Neurologist | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:Expert was the consulting neurologist for the Otology Group, a division of the Department of Otolaryngology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee. |
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Years | Employer | Title | Department |
Years: 1993 to 1995 | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Neurologist | Department: Undisclosed |
Responsibilities:Expert was a neurologist in the Neurologic Consultants, a private practice neurology clinic in Nashville, Tennessee. The group disbanded upon the retirement of several key members. |
Additional Experience
Expert Witness Experience |
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Expert is regularly asked to give depositions for both her own patients and others' whose legal cases require expert opinion. |
Training / Seminars |
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Expert has both developed and delivered training courses on a wide variety of topics. As a National Key Opinion Leader, Expert often trains other physicians to serve as local and national speakers for many pharmaceutical companies. She serves on the national speakers bureaus for companies such as GSK, Ortho-McNeil, Johnson&Johnson, Merck, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Allergan among others. Expert also delivers lectures to the employees of major non-medical companies on ways to identify, prevent and manage migraines in the workplace. Her diverse set of clients have included New York Life Insurance, Staples and Scana Energy. Expert delivers over 100 lectures per year nationally and internationally to expert and non-expert audiences alike. She is also featured frequently on local and national television and radio news networks as a guest expert. |
Marketing Experience |
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Expert is frequently called upon by the financial industry to comment on industry trends, trajectories and technologies, such as the possible FDA approval of a new medication, for example. As a National Key Opinion Leader, Expert serves on either the advisory boards or scientific advisory committees for most of the major pharmaceutical companies. She has built an international reputation through her work in clinical trials – as the principal investigator, first author in JAMA and national spokesperson for the two most recent and most significant migraine drugs brought to market in the last 6 years – OMN’s Topamax in 2004 and GSK’s Treximet in 2007). Her research, public lecturing and clinical expertise has landed Expert into the very top tier of neurologists in her disease state. As an experienced clinician, widely published academician and industry leader, Expert is ideally qualified to comment on a wide range of topics relating to headache, neurology and medicine in general. |