Seymour Solomon Lecture Award
This award is a highlighted lecture at the Annual Scientific Meeting that provides an update on a topic of clinical importance to health care professionals.
The award was named in honor of Dr. Seymour Solomon, a past President of the American Headache Society and past Chairman of the American Council for Headache Education.
Congratulations to the 2025 recipient!
Matthew S. Robbins, MD, FAHS
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY
From Students to Systems: Advancing Headache Education
Past Recipients
2024
Kathleen B. Digre, MD, FAHS
What the EYE Tells Us About Migraine
2023
Elizabeth K. Seng, PhD, FAHS
All Migraine Management is Behavior
2022
Larry Charleston IV, MD, MS, FAHS
Black Patients Matter in Headache Medicine: Exploration of Race, Racism, Race-based Headache Disparities and Professional Ethics
2021
Scott W. Powers, PhD, FAHS
What is… “Getting Better?”
2020
R. Allan Purdy, MD, FAHS
Observations 2020 – ‘Teaching Headache’
2019
Elizabeth W. Loder, MD, MPH, FAHS
Time’s Up: Headache Medicine in the #MeToo Era
2018
Deborah I. Friedman, MD, MPH, FAHS
Under Pressure
2017
Ann I. Scher, PhD, FAHS
Medication Overuse Headache: An Epidemiologist’s View
2016
Dawn C. Buse, PhD, FAHS
Migraine and Stress
2015
Andrew D. Hershey, MD, PhD, FAHS
Changes in Migraine in the Developing Child: What Does it Teach Us?
2014
Richard B. Lipton, MD, FAHS
Riding the Migraine Roller Coaster: Lessons from Longitudinal Studies
2012
Fabrizio Benedetti, MD
Placebo Responses: How Therapeutic Rituals Change the Patient’s Brain
2011
Michael A. Moskowitz, MD, FAHS
Migraine, Man, Mice, Mutations, and Mechanisms
2010
Shuu-Jiun Wang, MD
Heavily T2-weighted MR Myelography in Spontaneous Intracranial Hypotension
2008
Gretchen E. Tietjen, MD
The Role of the Vascular Endothelium in Migraine
2007
Peter J. Goadsby, MD, PhD, FAHS
Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias – Things I’ve Learnt
2006
Andrew C. Charles, MD, FAHS
Imaging Cellular Mechanisms of Migraine
2005
Hans-Christoph Diener, MD, PhD
From Single Patients to the Science of Headache
2004
Seymour Solomon, MD
Migraine 2000 BC to 2000 AD
Dr. Seymour Solomon
Dr. Seymour Solomon has been a leader in headache clinical care and research for the past 25 years. At Montefiore/Einstein, he has contributed to the training of hundreds of neurology residents and numerous headache fellows. An exceptional teacher and gifted clinician, he deserves the title of “Solomon the Wise”.
Seymour Solomon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1924 and received his primary and secondary education there. After graduating from Marquette University School of Medicine (now the Medical College of Wisconsin), he trained in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee. He completed a residency in neurology at Montefiore Hospital and then became Director of Neurology at
Philadelphia General Hospital. Following his two years as captain in the Air Force at Maxwell Air Force Base Hospital in Alabama, he returned to Montefiore as Associate Chief of Neurology. The remainder of his career was at Montefiore Hospital and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in various roles. He was Director of EEG, acting chief of the department, and Vice Chairman of Neurology. After Dr. Arnold
Friedman’s retirement, Dr. Solomon became Director of the Montefiore Headache Unit in 1980 until his retirement in 2009.
Dr. Solomon had faculty appointments at Temple University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Until his retirement, he had been Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine since 1983. Dr. Solomon has written more than 200 scientific papers, book chapters, and reviews. He is the author of The Headache Book for the lay population. His particular interests are the clinical aspects of headache including diagnosis, classification, and definition of unusual headache syndromes, as well as clinical trials. Dr. Solomon initiated and was abstracts editor of the journal Headache.
Dr. Solomon has held many positions in the American Headache Society, including president, and is a past chairman of the American Council for Headache Education. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and fellow and regent member of the American Headache Society. He is a member of the American Neurological Association, the American Pain Society, the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, the International Association for the Study of Pain, the International Headache Society and the World Federation of Neurology. Dr. Solomon has received awards from the National Headache Foundation, the American Council for Headache Education, the American Headache Society, and the Staff and Alumni Association of Montefiore, and was the physician honoree of “Montefiore 2000.” Dr. Solomon has been a frequent invited lecturer in the United States and other countries.
