Biographies
/Robert P. Cowan, M.D., FAAN, FAHS
Dr. Cowan is a philosopher, neurologist and headache specialist by training, having founded the academic headache programs at Stanford, and prior to that, at University of Southern California. Currently, he holds the Higgins Chair in Neurology and Neurosciences at Stanford and is a fellow of both the American Academy of Neurology and the American Headache Society.
He is past-president of the Headache Cooperative of the Pacific and currently sits on the CME committee of the American Headache Society, He is widely published, with well over 100 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts and has served on the editorial boards of Headache, Neurology, Cephalagia and other journals. He was a founding board member of both the Headache Cooperative of the Pacific and the Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy. He speaks nationally and internationally on various topics in headache, but his particular areas of research focus on the chronification of migraine and machine learning tools for headache diagnosis and management.
When he is not doing any of the above, he is out in his woodshop building furniture, sitting in his office writing fiction, or smacking tennis balls.
Richard B. Lipton, M.D.
Dr. Lipton is the Edwin S. Lowe Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
His research focuses on cognitive aging, Alzheimer’s disease and migraine. His cognitive research focuses on risk factors and biomarkers of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. His recent studies examine cognitive aging across the lifespan with an emphasis on the effects of pain and stress on brain function.
His headache research focuses on the epidemiology of migraine and on clinical trials. His epidemiologic studies have evaluated trigger factors for headache attacks and risk factors for headache progression. Dr. Lipton has published more than 800 original articles, many with trainees. He is a 5-time winner of the H.G. Wolff Award for excellence in headache research from the American Headache Society and a two time winner of the Enrico Greppi award from the European Headache Federation. Dr. Lipton is Director of the Montefiore Headache Center, an interdisciplinary subspecialty center focused on headache, patient care, research and education.
Dr. Lipton holds leadership positions in several professional societies. He is a Past-President of the American Headache Society (AHS). He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Neurology. He has written 11 books. Dr. Lipton enjoys mentoring medical students, residents, PhD students and fellows. He has received both the CRTP Mentor of the Year Award and the Einstein Faculty Mentoring Award.
