Statement of challenge: why is chronic pain so common among patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI)? Check out our latest review! authors.elsevier.com/c/1h-Otio-v2SFm. 
 Vimala Bharadwaj (she/her) Stanford Anesthesiology Stanford Pain Medicine VA Palo Alto HCS
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“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.”

Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (Katalin Kariko) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges.

Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her…

In Press: Using a mouse model of traumatic brain injury, Vimala Bharadwaj (she/her) and team (@stanfordanes) report that voluntary exercise significantly reduces:

— allodynia
— memory deficits
— markers of nociceptive sensitization

Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…

Free to read online:
#BasicScience Prize Award 2022
Vimala Bharadwaj (she/her) Amynah Pradhan Simon Akerman
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Lilly Medical is excited to be at #AHS2023 ! We look forward to sharing 12 posters on our latest #migraine data.

AHS attendees can learn more about our full lineup of presentations at #AHSAM here: e.lilly/3oZE9hH

Thank you American Headache Society and American Migraine Foundation for continuing to support our #EmergingLeaders work to improve #Cluster headache awareness. Annika Ehrlich, DNP, FNP-C, CNRN, AQH Vimala Bharadwaj (she/her)

We greatly appreciate American Headache Society and American Migraine Foundation supporting #EmergingLeaders projects!
#Cluster headache awareness
Lindsay Frerichs, MD
Vimala Bharadwaj (she/her)

It was great catching up with Q Chen, MD, PhD !
Nerdy clinician scientist with nerdy mouse cartoon drawing skills! 🐭 😎

From FY21 to FY22, NIH funding coded for ' #headaches ' research rose 15% to $54.2m (85% for ' #migraine ').

Good.

But relative to disease burden, should be >$360m.

There were 66 extramural PIs in FY22, and 60 extramural PIs in FY10...

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💯 #Recommend this program to anyone looking to gain #mentoring in #Headache #medicine !

Some of my favorite people talking at HCOP meeting today!! Fantastic talk about #Migraine and #Sex by Drs. Frank Porreca, David Yeomans and Addie Peretz. And to think about #bias and #preconception in #migraine #research by Dr. Andy Charles ANDREW Charles Stanford Medicine

Thank you, Dr Riggins!

Amazing Team at #HCOP2023 via Whova event app whova.com/whova-event-ap… ⁦UC San Francisco⁩ ⁦UC San Diego Health⁩ ⁦Stanford Medicine⁩ ⁦HCOP⁩ ⁦American Headache Society⁩ ⁦Annika Ehrlich, DNP, FNP-C, CNRN, AQH⁩ ⁦Sarah Bobker, MD⁩ ⁦Vimala Bharadwaj (she/her)⁩ ⁦Women Neurologists Group⁩ #MedEd ⁦Miles For Migraine⁩

Excellent presentation by Dr. Robert Shapiro on the critical need to de stigmatized #migraine and #headache s , raise #awareness and #advocate for patients with headaches- that would help improve the #headache #funding and new #investigators in headache.

🙏 American Headache Society and Laine Green MD FRCPC FAHS for this fantastic program, an honor to participate and work on a project serving the organization and American Migraine Foundation ! Vimala Bharadwaj (she/her) Lindsay Frerichs, MD Michelle Clementi, PhD Abigail L. Chua, DO UCSF Health UCSF School of Nursing