David W. Dodick

Biography

 He received his medical degree with distinction from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He completed his internship and neurology residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, followed by fellowships in Headache and Cerebrovascular Diseases at the University of Toronto, in Ontario Canada. Dr. Dodick is board certified by both the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is co-director of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Migraine Trust. He is a member of the Board of Governors, executive committee, and serves as secretary of the American Headache Society (AHS). He is also the secretary of the Headache & Facial Pain Section of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and chairman of Headache and Facial Pain for the Annual AAN meeting. He is associate editor of Cephalalgia and Headache, editor-in-chief of Headache Currents, and on the editorial board for The Neurologist and Postgraduate Medicine. He currently is the program director of the Mayo Clinic Neurology Residency Program in Scottsdale, Arizona, and co-chair of the AHS Evidence-Based Neurology Training Program in the United States.

Research Interest

 He is particularly interested in  Basic mechanisms and pathogenesis of chronic headache Investigation of new treatments for chronic headache Neurology education Stroke risk factor modification