John Rothrock, MD
Editor-in-Chief
John Rothrock, MD received his medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed his internship and residency training in Neurology at the University of Arizona.
In 1983 he joined the Neurosciences faculty at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he established and directed the UCSD Stroke Center and, subsequently, the UCSD Headache Center. He and his UCSD colleagues assisted in the development of such medications as injectable sumatriptan (Imitrex) for acute migraine treatment and divalproex sodium (Depakote) and topiramate (Topamax) for migraine prophylaxis. From 2006 to 2012 he served as professor, vice chair and medical director of Neurology at the University of Alabama/Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Rothrock continued his clinical research at UAB in the area of migraine, assisting in the development of onabotulinumtoxinA (BotoxA) for chronic migraine. He subsequently has assisted in the clinical development of the anti-CGRP monoclonal antibodies, atogepant (Qulipta), ubrogepant (Ubrelvy) and lasmiditan (Reyvow).
Since May 2021 he has served as professor of Neurology and Director of the APC Headache Medicine Fellowship at Inova Health/the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Fairfax, VA.
With his colleagues locally, nationally and internationally, he continues working to develop new treatments for migraine and other headache disorders.
Dr. Rothrock has been listed in America’s Top Doctors and Best Doctors in America in each of the past 15 years. He has been cited in Men’s Health and Women’s Health magazines as one of the 20 top neurologists in America for his work in the areas of stroke and headache.
Robert Cowan, MD
Senior Editorial Adviser
Dr. Cowan is a philosopher, neurologist and headache specialist by training, having founded the academic headache programs at Stanford, and prior to that, at University of Southern California. Currently, he holds the Higgins Chair in Neurology and Neurosciences at Stanford and is a fellow of both the American Academy of Neurology and the American Headache Society.
He is past-president of the Headache Cooperative of the Pacific and currently sits on the CME committee of the American Headache Society, He is widely published, with well
over 100 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts and has served on the editorial boards of Headache, Neurology, Cephalagia and other journals. He was a founding board member of both the Headache Cooperative of the Pacific and the Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy. He speaks nationally and internationally on various topics in headache, but his particular areas of research focus on the chronification of migraine and machine learning tools for headache diagnosis and management.
When he is not doing any of the above, he is out in his woodshop building furniture, sitting in his office writing fiction, or smacking tennis balls.
Richard Lipton, M.D.
Senior Editorial Adviser
Dr. Lipton is the Edwin S. Lowe Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology, Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
His research focuses on cognitive aging, Alzheimer’s disease and migraine. His cognitive research focuses on risk factors and biomarkers of cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. His recent studies examine cognitive aging across the lifespan with an emphasis on the effects of pain and stress on brain function.
His headache research focuses on the epidemiology of migraine and on clinical
trials. His epidemiologic studies have evaluated trigger factors for headache attacks and risk factors for headache progression. Dr. Lipton has published more than 800 original articles, many with trainees. He is a 5-time winner of the H.G. Wolff Award for excellence in headache research from the American Headache Society and a two time winner of the Enrico Greppi award from the European Headache Federation. Dr. Lipton is Director of the Montefiore Headache Center, an interdisciplinary subspecialty center
focused on headache, patient care, research and education.
Dr. Lipton holds leadership positions in several professional societies. He is a Past-President of the American Headache Society (AHS). He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Neurology. He has written 11 books. Dr. Lipton enjoys mentoring medical students, residents, PhD students and fellows. He has received both the CRTP Mentor of the Year Award and the Einstein Faculty Mentoring Award.
Cynthia Andress
Managing Editor
Diane Andress-Rothrock has served as Migraineur’s managing editor since the magazine’s inception in 2016. Her extensive background in headache medicine and medical publishing includes 5 years spent as managing editor for Headache, the official journal of the American Headache Society, and 12 years in that position for the Journal of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. She also has worked extensively as a headache medicine educator for patients and medical providers and as a clinical research associate for projects involving the neurosciences. In her “other life” Ms. Andress-Rothrock enjoys choreography and teaching both dance and barre.
Mindy Yuan
of Clover Collective
Magazine Designer
Since 2020, Los Angeles-based Mindy Yuan has served as production editor for Migraineur. As such, in preparation for every issue the advertisers and her editor electronically dump into her lap a disorganized and unpolished mountain of content that she then magically weaves into a coherent and visually appealing product. Put simply, without her unwavering patience, amiability, competence and creativity this magazine could not exist. Ms. Yuan is experienced in graphic design, illustration and motion graphics.
When not busy designing and producing, Mindy relaxes by taking pictures of her extraordinarily fortunate cat, tending to her house-plants or listening to live music.
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