Kim Burchiel, MD, FACS

is the John Raaf Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery at the Oregon Health & Science University. His interests include functional and stereotactic neurosurgery, pain surgery, and epilepsy surgery. Dr. Burchiel’s research interests are concerned with the physiology of nociception and neuropathic pains, including trigeminal neuralgia, the neurosurgical treatment of movement disorders, and image-guided neurosurgery.

Helena Chui, MD

is Chair of the Department of Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Chui’s research focuses on brain-behavior correlations in dementia. Her publications have examined clinical heterogeneity, natural history, clinical diagnosis, and clinical-pathologic correlations in Alzheimer Disease (AD) and ischemic vascular dementia. Dr. Chui was recently awarded a five-year grant by the NIA to study ischemic vascular dementia, examining the pathophysiologic and functional significance of deep white matter changes and pathological correlates of ischemic lesions visualized by MRI.

David Dodick, MD, FRCP(C), FACP

of the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona is the President-Elect of the American Headache Society. His research interests include basic mechanisms and pathogenesis of headache, investigation of new treatments for chronic headache, neurology education, and stroke risk factor modification.