This Is a Virtual Event
An educational presentation, with Q&A, about the mental and emotional components of managing migraine and headache disease.
Join us for our final of 4 webinars in a series entitled The Health Empowerment Series: Living with Migraine and Other Chronic Conditions: Navigating multiple chronic conditions—and managing care across a fragmented system.
If you’re looking for a deeper dive following our HER (Health Empowerment Revolution) Conferences in Philadelphia or Phoenix, these webinars are an opportunity to continue the conversation. Join us to explore topics in more depth, gain practical insights, and have your questions answered by experts.
Migraine and Its Emotional Impact will be hosted by Katie MacDonald with panelists Dr. Dawn Buse and Dr. Elizabeth Seng.
Participants will learn:
- That migraine affects much more than head pain, including emotions, thinking, and daily functioning before, during, and between attacks.
- The connection between migraine, depression, anxiety, and other symptoms, and know when these are a separate clinical diagnosis vs feelings that we can manage on our own.
- That many of these experiences are common, biologically based, and recognized by migraine clinicians and scientists.
Speakers
Dr. Dawn Buse, PhD
Dr. Dawn C Buse PhD is a Clinical Professor of Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, NY, USA, a licensed psychologist, a member of the board of Directors of the Headache Cooperative of the Pacific (HCOP). She has more than 250 scientific publications and has won 16 scientific and professional awards for her work in the fields of migraine, headache and chronic pain on topics including epidemiology, comorbidity, burden and stigma. Dr. Buse provides clinical care using biobehavioral techniques which include cognitive behavioral therapy, guided visual imagery, biofeedback and mindfulness training.
Dr. Elizabeth K. Seng, PhD
Dr. Elizabeth K. Seng, PhD. is an associate professor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, and a research associate professor at the Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Seng’s research is broadly focused on behavioral management of pain and headache disorders, particularly migraine. She is interested in the psychosocial factors associated with migraine attack onset, higher attack frequency, and migraine-related disability. She is also interested in improving acute medication adherence.
Katie MacDonald
Katie MacDonald is the Executive Director at Miles for Migraine. She is a person who has lived most of her life alongside migraine and currently lives with chronic daily migraine. Katie is passionate about advocacy and breaking down the stigma that so many of us with migraine experience.
