Recognition

Past Southern Headache Society Presidents, Lifetime Achievement winners and Scholarship recipients

Southern Headache Society Past Presidents

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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…

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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…

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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 Neurology
LSU Health Shreveport

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Paige Estave, MD, PhD

PGY3 Child Neurology
Atrium Wake Forest

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Anveet Hans, MD

PGY3 Neurology
University of Alabama, Birmingham

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Prateek Sharma, DO

PGY3 Pediatric Resident
Virginia Commonwealth/CHOR

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Kelly Xing, MD

PGY4 Neurology
Temple Universiity

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Pranav Prabu, MD

PGY2 Neurology
University of Kentucky

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Zach Pottanat, MD

PGY3 Pediatric Resident
Virginia Commonwealth/CHOR

2023 Education Scholarship Award Winners

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Ghazal Ahmad, MD

PGY3 Neurology
Medical College of Georgia

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Bryan Canlas, DO

PGY3 Neurology
St Luke’s University Health

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Delora Denney

MS3
University of Mississippi SOM

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Paul Gong, MD

Headache Fellow
Cincinatti Children’s

robert goodrich md

Robert Goodrich, MD

PGY5 Child Neurology
Wake Forest

sehaj madhok md

Sehaj Madhok, MD

PGY5 Child Neurology
Columbia University

victoria phoumthipphavong md

Victoria Phoumthipphavong, MD

PGY4 Neurology
Virginia Commonwealth

christopher tan

Christopher Tan

MS4
Virginia Commonwealth

shirin sadeghpour md

Shirin Sadeghpour, MD

PGY3 Neurology
Baylor Scott & White

shivani vaidya md

Shivani Vaidya, MD

PGY4 Neurology
MedStar Georgetown

2022 Education Scholarship Award Winners

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Jacqueline C. Okolie, MD

PGY-1 Neurology
Emory

tulsi shah md

Tulsi Shah, MD

PGY-3 Neurology
Georgetown

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Arthur Zayne Washington, MD

PGY-3 Child Neurology
Wake Forest

yanis amrani md

Yanis Amrani, MD

PGY-4 Neurology
UTMB Galveston

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Erik Gentry, DO

PGY-1 Neurology
University of Louisville

valerie casuccio

Valerie Casuccio

PGY-3 Neurology
The 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