Serena Laura Orr, MD, MSc

Associate Professor of Pediatrics | Pediatric Neurologist
University of Calgary | Alberta Children's Hospital

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.