Dr. Frederick Freitag
Dr. Freitag received his bachelor of science in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin and his DO degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1979. His residency in Family Medicine was coupled with additional training in headache medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1981. He is certified in Family Medicine and holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in Headache Management from the National Board for Certification in Headache Management. He is one of only 290 physicians who has subspecialty certification for Headache Medicine from United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. He is a Fellow of the American Headache Society. He holds an academic appointment at The Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in North Chicago, Illinois where he is a Clinical Assistant Professor. He has been a member of the American Headache Society since his 3rd year of medical school.
After 27 years of working with the prestigious Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago he became the Medical Director of the Comprehensive Headache Center and Director of Headache Medicine Research for Baylor Health Care System in Dallas in the fall of 2010, establishing a comprehensive inpatient treatment program in addition to his other responsibilities.
He has held numerous posts in professional organization including chairing committees of the American Headache Society, American Osteopathic Association, and the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
He has been on the Board of Directors of the National Headache Foundation since 1993 and is the current Vice President of the Board and is Co–Editor National Headache Foundation Standards of Care. He is a member of the US Headache Guidelines Consortium and led the subgroup on Inpatient Headache Guidelines.
He has conducted clinical and basic science research on a variety of topics and has published over a 150 articles in the peer reviewed literature as well as having contributed to numerous textbooks on headache and its treatment. He has presented his findings at numerous meetings worldwide and lectured on several occasions at the National Institutes of Health.
He has been named one of Castle Connelly's Top Doctors annually since 2004.
He has been actively involved in Lutheran charitable efforts for the less fortunate here and abroad.
Among his outside interests are classical music and opera, winemaking and the collection of and study of Greek and Roman antiquities and writing. He and his wife have fostered a believe in renaissance education as exemplified by his 3 children's diverse interests in art history, music, languages, ancient cultures, physical and biologic sciences, world religions, economics, and political science.
