Richard B. Lipton, M.D., is professor and vice chair of neurology, and professor of epidemiology and population health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He is also the Lotti and Bernard Benson Faculty Scholar at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and director of the Montefiore Headache Unit. Dr. Lipton earned his medical degree at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed a medical internship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, and his neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He also completed a fellowship in neuroepidemiology at New York’s Columbia University. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
Dr. Lipton holds leadership positions in several professional societies. He is a past-president of the American Headache Society (AHS) and on the Executive Committee of the International Headache Society. He is an Associate Editor of both Cephalalgia and Headache and on the editorial boards of several journals, including Neurology.
Dr. Lipton has made numerous contributions to the neurology literature. He has published more than 400 original articles and reviews, as well as 6 books. His interests include headache epidemiology and clinical trials, cognitive aging and dementia as well as outcomes research. He has twice received the H.G. Wolff Research Award from the American Headache Society, and is the recipient (with Peter J. Goadsby, M.D. and Stephen Silberstein, M.D.) of the Medical Book Award from the British Medical Association for his text Headache in Clinical Practice (1998). He is co-editor (with Stephen Silberstein, M.D. and Donald Dalessio, M.D.) of Wolff’s Headache and Other Head Pain (Seventh Edition).
