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Expert received his undergraduate and M.D. degree at Marquette University; their former School of Medicine is now the Medical College of Wisconsin. He first trained in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee and then completed a residency in neurology at Montefiore Hospital in New York, (The Bronx). He was appointed Director of Neurology at Philadelphia General Hospital. After two years as Captain in the Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base Hospital in Alabama, he returned to Montefiore as Associate Chief of Neurology. (Colleagues at the time included doctors Lewis Roland and Dewey Ziegler). Expert spent the remainder of his career at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

The Headache Unit at Montefiore, founded by Doctor Arnold Friedman in 1945, was the first such specialty center in the world. When Expert finished his residency at Montefiore in the 1950s he declined Dr. Friedman’s offer to work in the Unit because at that time headache and migraine in particular was considered a psychological condition. By the 1970s the biological mechanisms of migraine were being understood and after Dr. Freidman retired Expert gladly accepted the offer to be the Director of the Headache Unit. Expert was a mentor to many neurologists who worked with him and a number have established headache centers and attained the rank of professor.

Expert had faculty appointments at Temple University and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons before joining Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he is Professor of Neurology. He has written more than 250 scientific papers, book chapters and reviews. His particular interests are the clinical aspects of headache including diagnosis, classification, unusual headache syndromes and placebo effects. He initiated and was the abstracts editor of the journal Headache. He has held many positions in the American Headache Society including President. He is a fellow of the American Headache Society (FAHS), the American Academy of Neurology (FAAN) and the American Neurological Association (FANA). Expert has held offices in the International Headache Society and has been a member of many other organizations related to neurology and pain. He has received awards from the National Migraine Foundation, the American Council for Headache education, the Headache Cooperative of New England, the John Graham Award and Arnold P. Freidman Award from the American Headache Society and has the honor of that society’s annual Presidential Lectures. Expert also received the award of the Staff and Alumni Association of Montefiore Medical Center and was the Physician Honoree of the Center.

In the past, Expert has been a consultant to many pharmaceutical companies in the field of headache