Our Boards

Executive Board

The Association of Migraine Disorders (AMD) is led by an executive board of dedicated physicians who are passionate about migraine, patient care, physician education, and research. They come from a variety of specialty areas, including otolaryngology, neurology, and neurotology. Learn more about our board members below.

Frederick Godley, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Rick Godley, MD

President

Frederick Godley, MD, FACS

Frederick A. Godley, III MD, FACS is a general otolaryngologist in private practice in Rhode Island. Dr. Godley recognizes that migraine disease is a complex genetic neurovascular disease with a spectrum of symptoms beyond headache. He is a champion of improved care of those with migraine and its many comorbidities. He has founded the Association of Migraine Disorders (AMD), a nonprofit organization dedicated to patient and professional education, interdisciplinary research and public awareness. AMD hosts the international migraine awareness day, Shades for Migraine, celebrated on June 21. AMD provides a free, 4-module, 6.5 CME course in migraine management, The Migraine Toolbox, available on MyCME.com. AMD hosts the new migraine research platform, The Migraine Science Collaborative, designed to connect and inform clinicians, clinical researchers and basic scientists.

He received his medical degree from Boston University, completed his general surgical residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and his specialty training at the Yale – New Haven Hospital. Dr. Godley has taught young surgeons at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary and currently the Rhode Island Hospital.

Contact: rick@migrainedisorders.org

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Michael Teixido, M.D.

Michael Teixido, MD

Vice President

Michael Teixido, MD

Michael Teixido is an otolaryngologist with a special interest in medical and surgical conditions that affect hearing and balance.  He was born in Wilmington, Delaware and developed an interest in ear surgery because of a hereditary hearing condition in his family.  He actively pursues his goals to advance the study and understanding of problems involving hearing, balance and general otolaryngology through his participation in many national professional organizations and through frequent lectures to his professional colleagues and the public. In collaboration with the Delaware Biotechnical Institute Dr.Teixido has created unique 3D materials for teaching anatomy, surgery, and pathophysiology.

Dr. Teixido has an active neurotologic practice. He is the director of the Delaware Otologic Medicine and Surgery Fellowship, director of the Balance and Mobility center of Christiana Care, and co-director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant and Auditory Rehabilitation Program of the duPont Hospital for Children. He teaches residents in otolaryngology regularly at Thomas Jefferson, University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

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Deena Kuruvilla, MD

Deena Kuruvilla, MD

Secretary

Deena Kuruvilla, MD

Deena E. Kuruvilla, MD, is a board certified neurologist, headache specialist and Director of the Westport Headache Institute. She has served as assistant professor and associate program director for the Headache fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine and is a medical advisor for Healthline. 

Dr. Kuruvilla completed her medical internship at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Subsequently, she completed her Neurology residency at Brown University in Rhode Island, where she was chief resident. She went on to complete a fellowship in Headache and Facial Pain at the Montefiore Headache Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Kuruvilla has conducted research studies on medical devices, complementary and integrative medicine and procedural approaches for the treatment of headache disorders.  She is the former chair of the complementary and integrative medicine section and current chair of the women's health section of the american headache society. She has also been an invited reviewer and author for many peer-reviewed publications including Headache, Cephalalgia, JAMA, and the British Medical Journal.

Dr. Kuruvilla’s research and clinical work has been widely featured in the press, including Prevention Magazine, Neurology Today, the Hartford Courant, and the Wall Street Journal. 

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Leigh Serth

Leigh Serth

Treasurer

Leigh Serth

Leigh graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a B.S. in Human Development, Counseling and Family Studies. After graduating she spent time as a nanny, a personal secretary and a bookkeeping assistant, all while honing her skills in various types of computer work, video and audio editing, copyediting, and writing. Leigh puts those and many other skills to work as Director of Operations for the Association of Migraine Disorders where she manages the day-to-day operations of this small but dynamic organization. Leigh has been with AMD since its inception in 2012 and has played an integral role in the organization's growth and development over the years, most notably working on the successful provider education course A Migraine Toolbox. She also serves as Treasurer on the organization’s executive board. 

Leigh enjoys spending time in her hometown of Newport, Rhode Island, taking advantage of its beautiful beaches and hiking.

Contact: leigh@migrainedisorders.org

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Shivang G. Joshi, MD

Shivang Joshi, MD, RPh

Shivang Joshi, MD, RPh

Dr. Joshi received his B.Pharm degree in Pharmacy at St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions in New York, N.Y. Dr. Joshi received his M.D. and M.P.H. at St. George’s University School of Medicine and completed his Neurology Residency at the Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY. Dr. Joshi then joined the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, John R.Graham Headache Center in Boston, MA for a Fellowship in Headache Medicine, where he was also an Instructor of Neuroscience at the Harvard Medical School. He is Board certified in Neurology and Headache Medicine. Dr. Joshi is a recipient of the American Headache Society’s 2012 “Frontiers in Headache Research” Scholarship Award for Cluster Headache Research. Some of his clinical interests include the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias such as cluster headaches and migraine with aura in women. 

He is also a member of several professional medical societies including the American Academy of Neurology, the American Headache Society, and the International Headache Society. He is actively involved with mentorship and education with his academic societies. He is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy Practice at Buffalo University School of Pharmacy and serves as a preceptor for students at the office. 

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Mark E. Mehle, MD

Mark E. Mehle, MD

Mark E. Mehle

Mark E. Mehle, MD, FACS, is a member of Southwest General Medical Group ENT Associates and is Clinical Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Northeast Ohio Medical University in Rootstown, Ohio. He is also section chief of Otolaryngology at Southwest General Hospital, in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Mehle graduated from Youngstown State University, summa cum laude, with a bachelor of science degree in combined science and earned his medical degree at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. He completed his internship in general surgery and his residency in otolaryngology at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Mehle is board certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology. A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Mehle is also a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, the American Rhinological Society,and the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy. He is a board member of the Association of Migraine Disorders. He has published several articles on various medical topics in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, and Head and Neck, among others. He is editor of the book Sinus Headache, Migraine, and the Otolaryngologist published by Springer in 2017. Dr. Mehle has conducted clinical research on sinus headache and rhinitis and has lectured and taught across the country.

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Jennifer Robblee, M.D., M.Sc., FRCPC

Jennifer Robblee, M.D., M.Sc., FRCPC

Dr. Jennifer Robblee, M.D., M.Sc., FRCPC is an assistant professor of neurology for the Lewis Headache Center at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. She completed her medical school training and residency at the University of Toronto in 2010 and 2015, respectively. She completed her masters of science in quality improvement and patient safety in 2016. In 2015, she started as a general neurologist at the University Health Network with the University of Toronto where she also developed a headache clinic as well as community headache program. Three years into practice she left to complete a headache fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Dr. Robblee joined the Lewis Headache Center in 2019. She believes in combining the art and science of medicine to provide innovative, evidence-base, patient-centered care.

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Abigail Chua, DO

Abigail Chua, DO

Dr. Abigail Chua, DO is a board-certified neurologist and fellowship-trained headache specialist. She received her medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, completed her neurology residency at Temple University, and trained at the Jefferson Headache Center in Philadelphia for her fellowship in headache medicine. Dr. Chua previously served as education director for the Hartford Healthcare Headache Center in CT, as well as Program Director for their fellowship program in Headache and Facial Pain. Dr. Chua recently moved back to Pennsylvania and now works as the Director of Neurology at Geisinger Health System. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Chua is also a professor with the Thomas Jefferson School of Nursing, and currently works with the Jefferson School of Nursing and the Jefferson Headache Center to teach an online graduate education course to healthcare professionals seeking advanced training in headache medicine. 

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ADVANCED PRACTICE PROVIDER COMMITTEE

One of the Association of Migraine Disorders’ goals is to expand clinician education and engagement to enable more advanced practice providers to diagnose and treat migraine. To help accomplish this goal, we created an Advanced Practice Provider Education Committee (APPEC). The committee helps to identify gaps in care, best practices to reach other advanced providers and ideas for educational materials that are needed to properly diagnose and treat migraine.

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Andrea D. Murphy, MSN, APRN, ANP-BC, NEA-BC, AQH

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Carla Hirsch, MMS, PMH, PA-C

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Deanna Duggan, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, PMHS

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Natalia Zorrilla PNP, MSN

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Brandy Hughes DNP, APRN, FNP-C, AQH

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Caroline Stowe, DNP, FNP-BC, AQH

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Laura Xanders, RN, BSN, FNP-BC

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Lindsey Plato-Johnson DNP, FNP-BC, AQH

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Vera Gibb, DPN, APRN, FNP-C, AQH

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Mary Herne, FNP-C

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Natalia Danelich, MSN, CRNP, FNP-C

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Alicia Duyvejonck, DNP, AGNP, NP-C, AQH

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Laurel Short, DNP, MSN, FNP-C, AQH

If you are interested in joining the Advanced Practice Provider Education Committee, please email kylie@migrainedisorders.org

Specialty Representative Advisory Board

The Association of Migraine Disorders (AMD) is focused on bridging the gap between many medical specialties in the management of migraine disease. To help bridge those gaps, AMD looks to its Specialty Representative Advisory Board which includes clinicians from a wide range of specialties. The goal of this board is to grow and strengthen migraine care across specialties.

  • Executive Director, European Migraine and Headache Alliance, Brussels
  • Special interests: advocate for European patients with headache disorders
  • Allergy & Asthma Specialists, PA, Minneapolis, MN
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Immunology, Headache and Critical Care
  • Research interests: principal investigator of studies in asthma, allergy, headache and migraine
  • Resident physician in the Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management & Perioperative Medicine at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • Currently enrolled in a Master of Medical Education at Dundee University.
  • Interests include chronic pain management and headache disorders.
  • Further research interests include competency-based medical education, quality improvement, and patient safety.
  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology; Director, USC Balance Center
  • USC Caruso Family Center for Childhood Communication, Los Angeles, CA
  • Clinical interests: specializes in the assessment and management planning for patients experiencing dizziness, imbalance, and increased fall risk
  • Research interests: exploring vestibular disorders with an interest in fall risk assessment and prevention
  • Functional/Chiropractic Neurology
  • Imagine X Functional Neurology
  • Special Interests: Novel migraine and post-concussion treatment programs; Creator of 150-hour Post-Doctoral Program and author of a book, both titled ‘Mastering Migraine’
  • Director, Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine (SGEM)
  • Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University    
  • Special interests: sex & gender expert, educator and advocate; author of Sex Matters: How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women’s Health—and What We Can Do About It;
  • TEDx talk, “Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects for Women,”
  • Special Interests: Pediatric headache
  • Associate Dean for Medical Education
  • Professor of Family Medicine and Medical Science  
  • Office of Medical Education 
  • The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  • Special Interests: medical school curriculum, particularly the inclusion of information about substance use disorder
  • Center for Neurointestinal Health
  • Division of Gastroenterology
  • Department of Medicine
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Special interest: Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders
  • Professor Yale University, New Haven, CT
  • Clinical interests: menopause and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, obesity-related reproductive dysfunction, osteoporosis , menstrual disturbances, fibroids and premenstrual dysphoric disorder and more. 
  • Research interest: role of vitamin D in reproduction
  • Gynecology and FPMRS
  • Steward Carney Hospital, Dorchester MA
  • Special interests: pelvic floor disorders, office procedures, and nerve blocks for migraine.
  • Professor and E Stewart Taylor Chair of Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
  • Special interests: Treatment of menopausal symptoms in women; measurement of reproductive hormones using state-of-the-art methodologies; role of obesity in female infertility, principal Investigator with the CONFIRM network, NIH-funded clinical trials networks devoted to the study of problems in human reproduction.
  • Assistant Professor of Neurology
  • The John R. Graham Headache Center at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner, Boston, MA
  • Special interests: clinical care (cluster) and research; Associate Editor for the journal Headache, Board Member and Secretary for the Headache Cooperative of New England
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine; Harvard Medical School
  • Clinical interests: hormonal headaches and women's issues in neurology
  • Research interests: hormonal headaches and integrative therapies for headaches
  • Author of The Migraine Brain: Your Breakthrough Guide to Fewer Headaches, Better Health
  • Chief, General Neurology, Director, Headache & Facial Pain Program Director, Headache Medicine Fellowship Training
  • Yale University
  • President, Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy (AHDA)
  • Clinical Interests: headache specialist and authority
  • Research Interests: ARMR registry, cannabinoid and psilocybin studies
  • Assistant Professor - Child Neurology and Nursing
  • Director, Pediatric Headache Center and Headache Medicine Fellowship
  • Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 
  • Special interests: pediatric headaches
  • Associate Professor; Director of Women's Neurology
  • The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  • Research and clinical interests:women's neurology, care of pregnant women with neurological conditions, and epilepsy and migraine.
  • NYU Langone Medical Center, Director of Research
  • Research Interest: improving the diagnosis and treatment of people with migraines.
  • Associate Professor, Neurology
  • Mayo Clinic, Phoenix
  • Clinical Interests: chronic daily headaches, women in migraine, community outreach and education
  • Assistant Professor of Neurology 
  • Director, Vestibular & Neuro-Visual Disorders Clinic
  • Division of Headache Medicine 
  • Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute, UTSouthwestern Medical Center, Dallas TX
  • Research interests include vestibular migraine, PPPD and MDDS
  • Professor of Neurology
  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon NH 
  • Special interests: leading authority in headache medicine
  • Professor, Laboratory of Neuropharmacology; Chair, Section of Oral Biology
  • School of Dentistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 
  • Research interests: mechanisms of chronic pain and alcohol addiction, including cannabinoid pharmacology
  • Assistant Professor
  • Spaulding Neuroimaging Lab
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Research interests: using sophisticated imaging technology to measure gender-related differences in emotional and pain processing, neuroinflammation and glial function, interactions between central and peripheral pain mechanisms, pain in psychiatric disease, and rehabilitation impact on neuropathic pain after spinal cord injuries.
  • Nurse Practitioner III
  • Division of General Otolaryngology
  • Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
  • University of California San Francisco Medical Center
  • Assistant Clinical Professor
  • Department of Family Health Care Nursing
  • University of California San Francisco School of Nursing
  • Wright and Associates Family Healthcare, Amherst and Concord, NH
  • Owner - Partners in Healthcare Education, LLC
  • Special interests: education; independent practice and practice management
  • Editor for Practice Management, a new e-journal created for NPs; developed a number of video programs for the Fitzgerald Health Education Associates
  • Associate Professor
  • George Mason University
  • Research interests: expert in food composition and analysis, dietary assessment, and the role that diet plays on migraine, with exposures ranging from individual food chemicals to overall dietary patterns and mediated by effects of the microbiome. Interested in advancing personalized nutrition for migraine.
  • Associate Professor
  • Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
  • Clinical interest: rhinology, endoscopic sinus and skull base surgery
  • Research interest: clinical research in chronic rhinosinusitis and population health
  • Special interests: pediatrics
  • Professor and Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Harvard Medical School;
  • Chief, Vestibular Division
  • Mass. Eye & Ear
  • Mass. General Hospital
  • Clinical interest: founded the MEEI Vestibular Division that brings together otolaryngology and neurology experts
  • Research interest: disorders of hearing and balance, particularly Ménière’s disease, autoimmune inner ear disease, sudden deafness, and migraine.
 
  • Special Interests: Migraine
  • Assistant Professor (Clinical)
    Department of Pharmacy Practice
    Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
    Wayne State University 
  • Special Interests: Diabetes and blood pressure

Associate Professor

Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology  

  • Department of Health Science and Technology
  • Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University, Denmark 
  • Research interests: role of hormones in migraine; biomarkers
  • My current and special interests in migraine from pharmacological points of view:
    •  Sex-specific pharmacotherapy for migraine
    •  Disease modifying agents for migraine
    • Biomarkers for treatment’s response in migraine
  • Research Associate, Department of Otolaryngology
  • University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
  • Batchelor's Children's Research Institute
  • Special interests: research and treatment of vestibular conditions; post-concussion outcomes
  • Associate Director of Psychology, Pediatric Headache Program
  • Boston Children's Hospital 
  • Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Special interests: Psychosocial risk and resilience factors in youth with chronic headaches
  • The Villages Health, The Villages, FL
  • Clinical interests: Cognitive behavioral therapy, migraine education
  • Special Interests: Pediatric Pain
  • Associate Director, PA Program, Professor of Practice
  • Assumption University
  • Special interests: otolaryngology, emergency care
  • Professor, Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI
  • Special Interest: nursing education
  • Professor of Neuroscience
  • Associate Director, Carney Institute for Brain Science
  • Research interests: study of cortical processing using behavior, optogenetics, electrophysiology and imaging
  • Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
  • The Miriam Hospital and Brown Alpert Medical School
  • Research Interest: two principal areas: (1) assessing and intervening on energy balance behaviors and related mechanisms in the context of bariatric surgery and obesity; and (2) assessment and treatment of behavioral risk factors and comorbidities among individuals who have migraine.
  • Basic Science Research
  • University of Padova; Padova Neuroscience Center (Italy)
  • Special interest: calcium channelopathy