Chair: Lee Peterlin, DO
The Women’s Issues Committee is a dynamic and diverse group of professionals that share a passion for women’s issues in headache. Members include practicing clinicians as well as researcher/academicians. Meetings are held twice a year, in conjunction with the AHS Summer and Fall Symposia. We are a very active committee within AHS, especially in the areas of education and research.
One of our primary educational activities include presenting Pre-Course and Section Symposia in conjunction with the Annual AHS Scientific Symposium; we focus on specific women’s issues in these symposia such as menstrual-related migraine, migraine in pregnancy, contraceptive and hormonal issues, among many others. Several of our members are frequent speakers at these symposia, bringing our clinical expertise to the audience.
In addition to educational symposia, we are actively involved in collaborative research. Several of these joint collaborative efforts in research have been submitted as poster presentations at AHS meeting and for publication to journals like Headache.
Lastly, we have fun together and many of us have formed strong friendships as a result of our involvement with the Women’s Issues Section. We invite you to come and join us if you have an interest in women’s issues in headache and would like to meet some great fellow members of AHS!
Goals & Objectives
- Encourage research, discussion and debate on issues if special importance to female headache patients. These include, but are not limited to, quality of life and pharmacoeconomic analysis which take into account the unique aspects of women’s lives, increased study of headache during pregnancy, menopause and the reproductive years and gender issues involve din access to headache treatment.
- Suggest topics on headache issues of important relevance to women for presentation and lectures at the annual scientific meeting of AHS and its continuing education courses; provide to the course organizers lists of potential speakers on those topics.
- Participate in outreach efforts to professional and lay organizations, which have a stake in improved headache research and treatment of headache in women.
- Endorse the adoption of headache as a specific women’s health priority issue by the National Institute of Health.
- Promote the increased presence and visibility of women AHS members within the organization and its leadership.
- Foster the increased involvement of women AHS members as investigators in clinical trials and provide opportunities for formal and informal education and networking to enhance professional development.
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