Understanding Your Migraines: A Guide for Patients and Families

Understanding Your Migraines is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for people who suffer from migraine headaches, as well as for their families and their caretakers. Drs. Levin and Ward bring their vast experience studying and treating migraine to this book in a clear, practical and easily understandable volume which covers all of the aspects of migraine that plague individuals and their families. Numerous examples of real people with migraine help illustrate the options available for finding relief for this highly disabling worldwide health problem.

Dr. Morris Levin serves as chief of the Division of Headache Medicine and director of the Headache Center at UCSF Medical Center. He specializes in the management of all forms of facial pain and headache, including migraine, cluster headache, cervicogenic headache (neck-related headaches) and post-traumatic headaches. His research interests include cervicogenic headache, post-concussive headache, diagnosis in headaches, and medical education in neurology. Dr. Levin earned an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and his medical degree at Chicago Medical School. Subsequently, he completed a residency in neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, followed by subspecialty training at the Montefiore Hospital Headache Unit and Michigan Head-Pain and Neurological Institute. He is board certified in neurology and pain medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is also certified in Pain Medicine by the American Board of Pain Medicine and holds board certification in Headache Medicine from the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties.

Dr. Thomas N. Ward grew up in Portsmouth, NH where he attended the public school system. He graduated from Dartmouth College cum laude in 1975 and from Dartmouth Medical School with honors in 1980. He was elected a member of AOA. He was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine at Albany Medical Center from 1980-1982 then a resident in Neurology from 1982-1985 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Subsequently he practiced Neurology at Laconia Clinic in Laconia, NH until returning to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 1989 where he founded their headache clinic. He retired from DHMC in June 2016.Dr. Ward is a Fellow of the American Headache Society and of the American Academy of Neurology as well as the American Neurological Association. He is Treasurer of the Headache Cooperative of New England and certified in the subspecialty of Headache Medicine by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. He was Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is the Editor in Chief of the journal Headache: the journal of head and face pain.