Chart Your Course to Relief Advisory Board Members
Roger K. Cady, MD
Roger K. Cady, MD, is director of the Headache Care Center as well as director of Clinvest and founder of Primary Care Network, all located in Springfield, Missouri.
Dr. Cady received his MD degree from the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN. He completed his residency in family practice at St. Francis Mayo in LaCrosse, WI, and is certified by the American Board of Family Practice. He is a fellow of the American Headache Society and a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pain Management and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Cady is vice president of the board of directors for the National Headache Foundation.
Dr. Cady was the co-recipient of the Harold Wolff Award in 2000 for his research on the spectrum of primary headache in migraine sufferers. He has been instrumental in developing the early intervention paradigm for treatment of acute migraine and defining “sinus headache” as a common clinical presentation of migraine. He has authored/co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and has written and contributed to numerous books, chapters and abstracts as well as countless lectures and seminars around the world on headache, migraine and other chronic disorders. He has been and continues to be the principal investigator in multi-center studies on migraine, post-traumatic headache and other pain disorders.
Mark W. Green, MD
Dr. Mark W. Green is Director of Headache Medicine and Clinical Professor of Neurology (in Neurology, Anesthesiology and Dentistry) at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the College of Dental Medicine. He is certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and in Headache Medicine through the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties.
Dr. Green graduated from Case Western Reserve University, and then received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He received his neurology training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and during that period worked in the Montefiore Headache Unit of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was later appointed director of that unit. He came to Columbia University in 1981, and then New York Medical College. He returned to Columbia University 8 years ago to organize a section on headache and facial pain in the department of neurology, which he now directs.
Dr. Green was also one of the founding editors of CEPHALAGIA, the international headache journal. He also served as the Associate Editor of HEADACHE, the journal of the American Headache Society. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the FDA in Peripheral and Central Neurological Drugs.
Dr. Green has been active in the practice of headache and facial pain since 1978. He has lectured throughout the world on this subject and has written numerous articles on various subjects concerning headache and facial pain.
Sheena K. Aurora, M.D.
Sheena K. Aurora, MD, is Director of the Swedish Headache Center, Swedish Pain and Headache Center, in Seattle, Washington.
Dr. Aurora received her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree at Christian Medical College, in Ludhiana, India. She completed her residency in neurology at the Henry Ford Hospital, in Detroit, Michigan. While there, she also completed a Fellowship in Headache and Neurophysiology.
Her professional research interests include the study of transient focal neurologic events, middle cerebral artery occlusion, and headache disability and anticardiolipin antibodies in subjects with migraine. Dr. Aurora has been a principal investigator and co-investigator on more than a dozen research projects.
Dr. Aurora has published more than 30 peer-reviewed manuscripts, most recently in Headache, Expert Opinion in Pharmacotherapeutics, Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, and Journal of Headache and Pain. She has presented lectures about migraine, headaches, and pain at several forums throughout the United States, Japan, London, Mexico, Spain, France, and Italy. Dr. Aurora serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Head and Facial Pain, as Associate Editor of Headache, and as Contributing Editor for Headache Currents.
Dr. Aurora is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Association for the Study of Headache, the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine, and the International Headache Society. She has served on the Headache Masters Program, Migraine Innovators Program, Neurology Ambassador Program, the American Headache Society Review Board, and the American Headache Society, Primary Care Migraine Partnership, and has served as Secretary of the American Headache Society, Women’s Section.
Kris Egan
Kris Egan grew up in Wisconsin, but has called Oregon home for the last 30 years. She and her husband, Brian own Corvallis Custom Kitchens & Baths, a design and remodel firm in Downtown Corvallis. Kris has degrees in general science, horticulture, and computer science. She has co-facilitated a NHF headache support group since 2004, and has done community outreach. She also teaches GPS technology and geocaching, enjoys kayaking, travel, and gardening.
Susan W. Broner, M.D.
Susan W. Broner, M.D. is a board-certified attending neurologist at The Headache Institute at St.-Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, in New York City. She completed her headache fellowship at The Headache Institute and her neurology residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Broner received her Doctorate of Medicine at S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook School of Medicine.
Dr. Broner has written book chapters and published many articles on migraine and other headache disorders. She is a contributor to the National Headache Foundation “Reader’s Mail” and also reviews for several prominent headache journals.
Dr. Broner is a member of the National Headache Foundation, the American Headache Society, The International Headache Society and the American Academy of Neurology. She is also the recipient of three American Headache Society awards.