Boston University 35th Annual Winter Headache Symposium 2025

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

 

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Day 1

Friday, March 7, 2025

7:00am – 8:00am
Breakfast

8:00am – 8:15am
Welcome and Introduction – Steven Baskin, PhD, Thomas Ward, MD, Alan Rapoport, MD

Part 1
Moderator
Elizabeth Loder, MD

8:15am – 8:45am
Session 1
Approach to the Headache Patient: Migraine Mimics – Lawrence Newman, MD

8:45am – 9:15am
Session 2
What’s New?  Practice Pearls from Recent Studies – Christopher Gottschalk, MD

9:15am -9:30am
Discussion
Fred Cohen, MD

9:30am – 9:45am
Q&A

9:45am – 10:00am
Break 

Part 2
Moderator
Thomas Ward, MD

10:00am – 10:30am
Session 3
Update on the Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias (TACs) – Emmanuelle Schindler, MD, PhD

10:30am – 11:00am
Session 4
Cluster Headache and Hypoxia – Jonathan Borkum, PhD

11:00am – 11:30am
Session 5
A New Spin on Vestibular Migraine – Morris Levin, MD

11:30am – 11:45am
Discussion
Brian Grosberg, MD

11:45am – 12:00pm
Q&A
Lunch and product theater

12:00pm – 1:00pm
Lunch and Product Theater

Part 3
Moderator
Peter McAllister, MD

1:00pm – 1:30pm
Session 6
IIH and SIH diagnosis, imaging and treatment – Brian Frishberg, MD

1:30pm – 1:45pm
Discussion
Shuhan Zhu, MD

                 1:45pm – 2:15pm
Session 7
Obesity and Headache – Richard Lipton, MD

2:15pm – 2:45pm
Session 8
Your Brain, Body and the Gila Monster: Multifaceted Role of GLP-1’s – Shivang Joshi, MD, MPH, RPh

2:45pm – 3:00pm
Discussion
Noah Rosen, MD

3:00pm – 3:15pm
Q&A

3:15pm – 3:30pm
Break

Part 4
Moderator
Paul Rizzoli, MD

3:00pm – 4:00pm
Session 9
Fellow Talks

4:00pm – 4:30pm
Session 10
Headache Medicine Disparities: Contributing Factors and Mitigation Strategies to Consider – Cynthia Armand, MD

4:30-4:45
Discussion
Tanya Bilchik, MD

4:45-5:00
Q&A

5:00pm – 5:15pm

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

5:15pm – 6:00pm

My Life in Headache Medicine – Bob Wold

6:00pm – 7:00pm

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

Wine and Cheese Reception

Day 2

Saturday, March 8, 2025

7:00am – 8:00am
Breakfast

8:00am – 8:15am
HCNE Annual Meeting

Part 6
Moderator
Randall Weeks, PhD

8:15am – 8:45am
Session 11
Migraine and Cognition – Elizabeth Seng, PhD

8:45am – 9:00am
Discussion
Robert Duarte, MD

9:00am – 9:30am
Session 12
Post-Traumatic Headache – Alan Finkel, MD

9:30am – 10:00am
Session 13
Concussion and Post-Traumatic Headache in Youth – Catherine Patterson Gentile, MD, PhD

10:00am – 10:15am
Discussion
Bridget Mueller, MD, PhD

10:15am – 10:30am
Q&A

10:30am – 10:45am
Break

Part 7
Moderator
Andrea Harriott, MD, PhD

10:45am – 11:15am
Session 14
Structural and Functional Imaging in Migraine – Nouchine Hadjikani, MD, PhD

11:15am – 11:45am
Session 15
Future Anti-Migraine Targets – Sait Ashina, MD

11:45am – 12:00pm
Discussion
William Renthal, MD, PhD

12:00pm – 12:15pm
Q&A

12:15pm – 1:15pm
Lunch and TBD

Part 8
Moderator
Robert Shapiro, MD, PhD

                   1:15pm – 1:30pm

Introduction Lifetime Achievement Award – Elizabeth Loder, MD, MPH

1:30pm – 2:15pm

My Life in Headache Medicine – Dawn Buse, PhD

Part 9
Moderator
Paul Rizzoli, MD

2:15pm – 3:15pm
Session 16
Coddon Fellow and Fellow Talks

3:15pm – 3:30pm
Break

Part 10
Moderator
Herbert Markley, MD

3:30pm – 4:00pm
Session 17
Artifical Intelligence and Machine Learning in Headache Medicine – Chia-Chun Chiang, MD, PhD

4:00pm – 4:15pm
Discussion
Alexander Mauskop, MD

4:15pm – 4:45pm
Session 18
Sleep Devices for Managing Headache Disorders – Brij Chandwani, DMD

4:45pm – 5:00pm
Discussion
Adelene Jann, MD

5:00pm – 5:15pm
Q&A

Wine and Cheese Reception

Agenda is subject to change without notice