HeadNotes Blog  
 
 
  Who Is the AHDA?  
 
 
Background
 
 
  About Headache
Disorders
 
 
 
  Supporters  
 
 
  Letters of Support  
 
 
  What We Can Do ALL the Time  
 
 
  Events  
 
 
  Links: Sites and blogs  
 
 
  AHDA Home  
 

 
  What YOU
Can Do
 
 

 

The Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy is comprised of nonprofit organizations who are vitally concerned about the health of patients with headache disorders including migraine disease, cluster headaches, chronic daily headache, new daily persistent headache, tension-type headaches. All headache disorders.

The AHDA is dedicated to advocacy efforts that can result in better treatment for all headache disorder patients.

Member Organizations (alphabetically):

Board of Directors (alphabetically):

  • Roger Cady, MD -  NHF and the AHS
  • Michael John Coleman -  MAGNUM
  • Robert Cowan, MD -  HCOP
  • Eileen Jones, RN -  MFM
  • Brian Kennedy - AfPA
  • Brad Klein, MD, MBA - AAN, and AHS
  • Derek Brandt -  AAN
  • Bray Patrick-Lake - PFORF
  • Teri Robert
  • Robert Shapiro, MD, PhD, represents HCNE, AHS, NHF, AAN
  • Gretchen Tietjen, MD - OHA, AHS, AAN
  • Bob Wold - Clusterbusters
  • William Young, MD - AHS, AAN

The current executive committee of the AHDA is comprised of:

  • Robert Shapiro, MD, PhD; Burlington, Vermont
  • William Young, MD; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Brad Klein, MD, MBA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Teri Robert; Washington, West Virginia

 

Contact Us

Stay up-to-date!
We will email updates when new information is added to our site and when there is action to be taken. To join our mailing list, please click HERE. Your information will NEVER be shared with anyone else. It will be used only to send you updates and action alerts on our mission.



Find Us On...


Get the statistics:

Todd J. Schwedt, MD, MSCI, and Robert E. Shapiro, MD, PhD, wrote "Funding of Research on Headache Disorders by the National Institutes of Health." This article was published in Headache. Download a copy HERE.



Donate to the AHDA
     

   
Please note
: Although the AHDA is a nonprofit organization, it is classified as a lobbying group. Therefore donations are not tax-deductible.


Quick Facts:

  • Headache disorders cause more than 1 percent of all disability and 9 percent of all lost labor in the US every year.
  • Migraine alone is the 12th most disabling disorder in the US.
  • Headache disorders are the most prevalent neurological disorders, affecting more than 90% of all Americans.
  • The US annual direct and indirect economic costs of headache disorders exceed $31 billion.
  • The NIH expended less than $10 million in 2006 towards all research on headache disorders, comprising less than 0.05 percent of its total budget.

For more headache and Migraine facts, see our Headache Disorders Fact Sheet.


 
 
 
 
© Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy, 2007 - 2013.

Last updated February 1, 2013.