HEADACHE FELLOWSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM

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The Jefferson Headache Center Fellowship program is dedicated to giving to the trainee the highest quality preparation so that he or she can make contributions to patient care and advance the level of knowledge of headache medicine. The program received accreditation with the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS) for their fellowship in Headache Medicine in 2007.

The program will prepare the Fellow for a career in clinical headache practice or academic headache medicine. The Fellow will be exposed to outpatient and inpatient headache patient care, as well as clinical headache research involving epidemiology, neurophsyology, and therapeutic studies. In addition, a pediatric headache rotation is part of the program. Headache medicine is a unique subspecialty of neurology that requires knowledge not previously taught to trainees during their respective residency programs.

The Fellowship program consists of 12 months of training. The trainee will spend most of his or her time in the outpatient and inpatient headache units, but will have ample time to participate in research projects of their choosing. The trainee will see patients 4 days/week, with 2 half days/week devoted to research.

*If you are interested in joining the fellowship training program at the Jefferson Headache Center, please contact Stephanie Nahas-Geiger, M.D. Director, Fellowship Program, Jefferson Headache Center at 215-955-2243.

CURRENT FELLOWS

Zuhal Ergonul, MD,Ph.D.

Zuhal Ergonul, M.D., Ph.D., is a Board-eligible neurologist with special competence in Child Neurology. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree at the Ankara University School of Medicine and her Physiology degree at the Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Turkey. She completed her pediatric residency training at Long Island College Hospital and her child neurology residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York.  She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Headache Society, and the Child Neurology Society.

Shatabdi Patel, MD

Shatabdi Patel, M.D., is a Board-eligible neurologist.  She received her Doctor of Medicine from Ross University School of Medicine in Dominica, West Indies.  She completed both her internship and her neurology residency here at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.  She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Pain Society, and the American Headache Society.

Dolores Dominguez Santamaria, MD