Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York
Richard B. Lipton, M.D., 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, where he also directs the Montefiore Headache Center. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and UCNS certified in headache medicine.
Dr. Lipton’s 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 1000 articles in indexed journals and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Neurology. He is a six-time winner of the H.G. Wolff Award for excellence in headache research from the American Headache Society (AHS) and a two-time winner of the Enrico Greppi award from the European Headache Federation. He is a Past-President of the AHS.
Dr. Lipton earned his medical degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. After a medical internship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, he completed his neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He also completed a fellowship in neuroepidemiology at Columbia University.
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