Thomas N. Ward, MD, and A. Laine Green, MD

The guest editors of this issue of Seminars in Neurology are Drs. Thomas Ward and Laine Green.

Dr. Thomas N. Ward grew up in Portsmouth, NH, where he attended the public school system. He graduated from Dartmouth College (cum laude) in 1975 and from Dartmouth Medical School with honors in 1980 and was elected a member of Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA).

He was an intern and resident in Internal Medicine at Albany Medical Center from 1980 to 1982 and then a resident in Neurology from 1982 to 1985 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Subsequently, he practiced Neurology at Laconia Clinic in Laconia, NH, until returning to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 1989 where he founded a headache clinic. Dr. Ward is a fellow of the American Headache Society and of the American Academy of Neurology as well as the American Neurological Association. He is president of the Headache Cooperative of New England. He is an Active Emeritus Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He was the editor in chief of the journal Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain from 2013 to 2020. He currently sees patients at the White River Junction, VA Hospital, and resides in Norwich Vermont and Sarasota, Florida. He has been a leader in the field of headache for many years, and a mentor and friend to innumerous people in our field.

Dr. A. Laine Green is from Halifax Nova Scotia. His undergraduate degree was focused on organic chemistry. He then received a master's degree in synthetic (mechanistic) organic chemistry from Queen's University. He completed his medical school and neurology residency training at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He completed his headache medicine fellowship with Dr. David Dodick at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. His first year of fellowship was on the University of Arizona Campus in Tucson in the laboratory of Dr. Frank Porreca completing a preclinical project in medication overuse and cortical spreading depression. His second year of fellowship was the clinical-based year with Dr. Dodick in Scottsdale. After fellowship, Dr. Laine returned to Halifax where he was an assistant professor with the Division of Neurology at Dalhousie University. He moved to Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in November 2019, where he was an assistant professor with the Department of Neurology. He returned to Mayo Clinic Arizona in January 2022, where he is an attending neurologist and assistant professor in the Department of Neurology. He is a fellow of the American Headache Society and serves on several of their committees. He also volunteers for the American Migraine Foundation on the Editorial Board. He previously served as an associate editor for Headache—The Journal of Head and Face Pain from 2018 to 2020.

We greatly appreciate the efforts of Drs. Ward and Green, as well as all of the contributing authors, for their wonderful work in this issue of Seminars: Update on Headache. Headache is perhaps the most common problem encountered in the field of neurology, and the reviews in this issue are invaluable in their insights and prudent guidance, and look toward the future of headache medicine, an area in which there have been tremendous advances in recent years. I must also note what a pleasure it was to work with these guest editors—Drs. Ward and Green took great personal pride in the quality of the reviews herein, and I hope the readers appreciate the outstanding nature of this issue. They have also approached this work with great humility and diligence, which is likely emblematic of how they've become such leaders in the field of headache medicine. We hope you enjoy this truly superb issue of Seminars in Neurology!

Publication History

Article published online:
02 November 2022