Southern Headache Society Past Presidents
Morris Maizels, MD
Years President: 2011-2016
Morris Maizels MD is a family physician and headache specialist, who has been involved in headache care and research since 1994. His study – Intranasal Lidocaine for Treatment of Migraine (JAMA 1996) – laid the foundation for the recent interest in sphenopalatine ganglion blocks for migraine. Following that publication, he established a group education model…
Brian Loftus, MD
Years President: 2016-2020
Dr. Brian Loftus’s journey to medicine was the road less travelled. His initial encounter with the medical field occurred during a summer between his freshman and sophomore years in college, when he worked with a surgeon at Ben Taub General Hospital. Despite this early exposure, he initially decided against a career in medicine. Instead, he…
Brian Plato, DO
Years President: 2020-2022
Dr. Brian Plato is the medical director of headache medicine with the Norton Neuroscience Institute in Louisville, KY. Dr. Plato received his medical degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed both his internship and residency at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in neurology, where he also served as chief resident…
2024 Education Scholarship Award Winners
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Abullahi Adamu, MD
PGY4 NeurologyLSU Health Shreveport
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Paige Estave, MD, PhD
PGY3 Child NeurologyAtrium Wake Forest
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Anveet Hans, MD
PGY3 NeurologyUniversity of Alabama, Birmingham
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Prateek Sharma, DO
PGY3 Pediatric ResidentVirginia Commonwealth/CHOR
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Kelly Xing, MD
PGY4 NeurologyTemple Universiity
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Pranav Prabu, MD
PGY2 NeurologyUniversity of Kentucky
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Zach Pottanat, MD
PGY3 Pediatric ResidentVirginia Commonwealth/CHOR
2023 Education Scholarship Award Winners
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Ghazal Ahmad, MD
PGY3 NeurologyMedical College of Georgia
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Bryan Canlas, DO
PGY3 NeurologySt Luke’s University Health
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Delora Denney
MS3University of Mississippi SOM
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Paul Gong, MD
Headache FellowCincinatti Children’s
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Robert Goodrich, MD
PGY5 Child NeurologyWake Forest
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Sehaj Madhok, MD
PGY5 Child NeurologyColumbia University
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Victoria Phoumthipphavong, MD
PGY4 NeurologyVirginia Commonwealth
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Christopher Tan
MS4Virginia Commonwealth
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Shirin Sadeghpour, MD
PGY3 NeurologyBaylor Scott & White
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Shivani Vaidya, MD
PGY4 NeurologyMedStar Georgetown
2022 Education Scholarship Award Winners
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Jacqueline C. Okolie, MD
PGY-1 NeurologyEmory
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Tulsi Shah, MD
PGY-3 NeurologyGeorgetown
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Arthur Zayne Washington, MD
PGY-3 Child NeurologyWake Forest
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Yanis Amrani, MD
PGY-4 NeurologyUTMB Galveston
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Erik Gentry, DO
PGY-1 NeurologyUniversity of Louisville
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Valerie Casuccio
PGY-3 NeurologyThe University of Virginia
Southern Headache Society Scholarship Awardees
2019 Scholarship Award Winners:
Lindsay Frerichs, Headache Medicine Fellow
Daniel Lapid (PGY2) Child Neurology Resident
Arathi Nandyala (PGY1) Neurology Resident
Rachel Penn (PGY2) Child Neurology Resident
Yash Shah (PGY4) Child Neurology Resident