Dr. Jaclyn Duvall is a board-certified neurologist and UCNS-certified headache specialist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is one of the state’s few fellowship-trained headache specialists and has provided neurologic care since 2013.
She completed her headache medicine fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, and her medical degree and neurology residency at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. Her clinical interests include chronic migraine, post-traumatic headache, and the doctor-patient relationship.
Dr. Duvall is actively involved in headache research, education, and advocacy, and is a member of the American Headache Society, American Academy of Neurology, International Headache Society, and the National Headache Foundation. She is a national and international speaker on headache medicine and has published research in leading journals including Headache, Neurology, and Cephalalgia. She is also the author of The Basics of Migraine.
Dr. Duvall is known for her patient-centered approach and her commitment to partnering with each individual to develop a personalized treatment plan.
Dr. Aarushi Suneja is a board-certified neurologist and headache specialist at the Cleveland Clinic, where she serves as headache medicine fellowship program director and quality improvement officer within the Center for Neurological Restoration.
She completed an integrated BS/MD program at Northeast Ohio Medical University, neurology residency training at Henry Ford Health System, and a subspecialty fellowship in headache medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Her clinical focus includes migraine, cluster headache, trigeminal neuralgia, and other complex headache disorders.
Dr. Suneja is dedicated to patient-centered care, clinician education, and advancing quality improvement initiatives to improve outcomes for people living with headache disorders.
Tom Zeller Jr. is an American journalist, former New York Times reporter and columnist, and current editor-in-chief of the digital science magazine Undark.
He is the author of the 2025 book The Headache: The Science of a Most Confounding Affliction, and a Search for Relief as well as a co-editor and contributing author of the 2022 book, A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism, published by Oxford University Press.
He is co-editor and a contributing author of the 2022 book, A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism, published by Oxford University Press.
In 2013, Tom was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, where he spent a year studying environmental decision-making, economics, and climate policy — topics he has covered in the United States and abroad for Al Jazeera America, as well as The Times, National Geographic, Bloomberg View, Forbes, and other publications.
He co-founded Undark in 2016. Under his leadership, the magazine’s work has been anthologized in the Best American Science & Nature Writing book series, and honored with numerous awards and accolades, including the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award and the prestigious George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting. Undark has also been named a finalist for a National Magazine Award, and earned top prizes from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the National Association of Science Writers, and the Online News Association.
Gudrun Gossrau, MD, is a professor at the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden and consultant neurologist at its University Hospital, where she directs the Headache Center and serves as vice head of the Interdisciplinary University Pain Center.
She studied medicine at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the University of Ottawa, the University of Western Ontario, and TU Dresden. Since 2014, she has built and led the Headache Center Dresden, establishing it as a leading institution for translational headache research and patient care. Her research focuses on sensory mechanisms in migraine, olfactory influences on pain perception, sex differences in headache disorders, and pediatric headache. For children and adolescents, she founded a pioneering interdisciplinary, multimodal headache therapy program.
Professor Gossrau has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on headache and pain. She is general secretary of the German Migraine and Headache Society, member of the Annual Program Committee of the German Pain Congress, and serves on the Steering Committee of the German Headache Registry. Her innovative contributions to headache therapy have earned her several distinctions, including the Brand Prize for Innovative Headache Therapy and the MSD Health Award Germany 2024.
Dr. Laura (Libby) Sebrow earned her PhD in clinical psychology, with a health emphasis and a minor in clinical neuropsychology from Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University. She is a graduate of Dr. Elizabeth Seng’s Headache and Adherence Lab and recently completed her clinical neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Neurology at North Shore University Hospital, Northwell Health.
As a clinical neuropsychologist, her clinical and research interests focus on integrating neuropsychology into headache care, with a particular emphasis on increasing understanding of cognitive functioning in migraine. She also serves as an assistant editor for Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain.
Dr. Tsubasa Takizawa is a neurologist and headache specialist at Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo, where he leads research within the Department of Neurology’s Headache Group. He earned his medical degree from Keio University and was a research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School for two years, studying experimental models of cortical spreading depolarization — the brain mechanism thought to underlie migraine aura.
Dr. Takizawa’s research bridges laboratory and clinical settings to better understand what initiates migraine attacks and how emerging therapies work in real-world practice. He has been published widely on migraine mechanisms, treatment responses, and the role of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) pathways.
His expertise offers unique insight into how migraine triggers arise and how science is helping to turn that understanding into more effective prevention strategies.
Stacy Monahan Tucker has practiced disability insurance law for over 25 years, initially representing insurance companies and now representing individuals with disability claims. A graduate of The University of Chicago Law School, she spent the first decade of her career at “white shoe” law firms, defending insurers in high-value disability disputes.
Stacy now represents professionals and business owners in their disability and life insurance disputes against insurers, with a particular focus on complex pain, migraine, autoimmune disorders, cognitive decline, and long COVID claims. She is admitted to the state bars of California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada, and represents insureds nationwide.
Christina Szperka, MD, MSCE, has been interested in the treatment of chronic pain since she was an undergraduate at Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts, and focused on pediatric pain while pursuing her medical degree at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dr. Szperka completed residencies in pediatrics and child neurology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and a fellowship in headache medicine at the Jefferson Headache Center at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. She is board certified in child neurology and headache medicine.
Dr. Szperka divides her time between patient care and projects aimed at improving the diagnosis and treatment of children with headaches across CHOP and beyond. In 2013, she was named director of the newly formed Pediatric Headache Program. She has received grants to improve clinical care of and treatment options for headache.
Dr. Jennifer Robblee is a board-certified neurologist specializing in headache medicine at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Ariz. She balances her time between clinical work and research, focusing on refractory migraine and status migrainosus.
Dr. Robblee completed her medical training and neurology residency at the University of Toronto, where she also earned a Master of Science in quality improvement and patient safety. She further honed her expertise with a headache fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale. Her dedication to advancing headache medicine through innovative research and compassionate patient care has made her a respected figure in the field.
Dr. Risa Ravitz, MD is a board-certified neurologist specializing in migraine, headache disorders, general neurology, and pain management. She is the CEO of Modern Migraine MD, with offices in New York, New Jersey, and Florida and telehealth available in 13 states.
Dr. Ravitz holds dual board certification from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Pain Medicine.
Zhiqi Liang is a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherapist and lecturer in physiotherapy at the University of Queensland. She teaches in the master of Physiotherapy (musculoskeletal) program and also practices clinically at the university’s headache clinic.
Her research focuses on neck pain and headache, especially migraine — exploring how neck pain contributes to headache and identifying treatment directions, including patient preferences, for more individualized management.
In 2024, Zhiqi received the prestigious David Lamb Memorial Award from the International Federation of Manual and Musculoskeletal Physical Therapists (IFOMPT) for high-quality research that has influenced musculoskeletal physiotherapy worldwide.
With more than 15 years of experience, she is a fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists, where her expertise is recognized through roles as examiner, facilitator in the Specialisation Training Program, and current service on the Board of Censors.
Dr. Serena Orr is associate professor of pediatrics, community health sciences, and clinical neurosciences at the University of Calgary, and an attending pediatric neurologist at the Alberta Children’s Hospital (ACH). She is a clinician-scientist and is principal investigator of the Pediatric Headache Research Lab. She also directs the Pediatric Headache Program in the Section of Neurology at ACH.
Her main research interest is in furthering our understanding of migraine in children and adolescents. Specifically, she is interested in improving our knowledge of how to optimize acute migraine treatment, both at home and in the emergency department. She leads clinical trials and is interested in novel neuromodulation and technology-based solutions for treating migraine. Dr. Orr is also interested in the relationship between migraine and mental health (i.e., anxiety and depression) and in how this relationship may help us to better understand migraine etiology and biology.
