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Lifetime Achievement Award
OF THE NATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION
The Lifetime Achievement of the National Headache
Foundation is presented to a health care prac-
titioner in recognition of an impressive body
of work in the field of headache. The 2016
award recipient was Mark W. Green, MD, the
Director of Headache and Pain Medicine at
Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Professor of
Neurology, Anesthesiology, and Rehabilitation
Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at
Mount Sinai, New York City, since 2009. Dr.
Green has been involved in headache medicine
since 1978, when he served as the Director of
the Headache Unit at Montefiore Hospital.
From 1980 through 1986, he was Assistant
Clinical Professor of Neurology at Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
New York. He then served as Clinical Associate
of Neurology at New York Medical College in
Valhalla, NY. Dr. Green returned to Columbia
in 2000 where he organized a section on head-
ache and facial pain within the Department of
Neurology.
A native New Yorker, Dr. Green received
a B.A. in chemistry (with honors) from Case
Western University in Cleveland, OH, and
his M.D. from Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, Bronx, NY. In 1979, he became
Board Certified in Neurology from the Ameri-
can Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He
received the Subspecialty Certification in
Headache Medicine from the United Council
of Neurologic Subspecialties in 2006. In 2011,
Dr. Green became a Fellow of the American
Academy of Neurology.
He is a founding member and editor of the
journal of the International Headache Society,
Cephalalgia, and has served as an Associate Edi-
tor of the journal, Headache. Also, he served as
Editor-in-Chief of the American Academy of
Neurology’s Continuum on Headache. In 2015,
he served as an Associate Editor and Contribut-
ing author to the textbook, Headache and Migraine
– Biology and Management, which was published
by Elsevier. He is currently a panel member
of the Advisory Board of the Food and Drug
Administration’s Section on Peripheral and
Central Neurological Drugs, and remains a
consultant to the FDA.
Dr. Green was elected to the Board of the
National Headache Foundation in 2010. In
May, 2016, he was elected as Vice President
of the Board. As of September 19, 2016, Dr.
Green has resigned his elected position and his
appointment of the NHF Board. HW
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