Harold G. Wolff Lecture Award
This award is for the best paper on headache, head or face pain, or the nature of pain itself. The paper may be concerned with basic research, clinical studies or both and must include new data to be considered for the award. The recipient will be invited to present the paper at the Annual Scientific Meeting. This award was named in honor of Dr. Harold G. Wolff, a pioneer in the field of headache medicine.
Congratulations to the 2024 recipient!
Chia-Chun Chiang, MD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Past Recipients
2023 - Christina L. Szperka, MD, MSCE, FAHS
2022 - Amynah Pradhan, PhD
2021 - Ryotaro Ishii, MD, PhD
Chronic versus Episodic Migraine: The 15-day threshold does not adequately reflect substantial differences in disability across the full spectrum of headache frequency
2020 - Antonio Russo, MD, PhD
Cognitive Networks Disarrangement in Patients with Migraine Predicts Cutaneous Allodynia
2019 - Amy Gelfand, MD, FAHS
The Association Between Parental Migraine and Infant Colic: A Cross-sectional, Web-based, US Survey Study
2018 - Richard B. Lipton, MD, FAHS
Identifying Natural Subgroups of Migraine Based on Profiles of Comorbidities and Concomitant
Conditions: Results of the Chronic Migraine Epidemiology and Outcomes Study
2017 - Richard B. Lipton, MD, FAHS
Allodynia Is Associated with Initial and Sustained Response to Acute Migraine Treatment:
Concourse Level Results from the American Migraine Prevalence and Prevention
(AMPP) Study (OR21)
2015 - Todd J. Schwedt, MD, MSCI, FAHS
Accurate Classification of Chronic Migraine via Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging
2014 - Christoph Schankin, MD
The Relation Between Migraine, Typical Migraine Aura and ‘Visual Snow’
2013 - Farooq Husain Maniyar, MB BS, MD, MCRP
Investigating the premonitory phase of migraine with H215O PET
2012 - Robert Shapiro, MD, PHD
Casein Kinase lō Mutations in Familial Migraine with Aura
2011 - Michael L. Oshinsky, PhD and Gretchen E. Tietjen, MD
Adverse Childhood Experience: Migraine and Vascular Biomarkers
2009 - Simon Akerman, PhD
Oxygen Inhibits Neuronal Activation in the Trigeminocervical Complex after Stimulation of
Trigeminal Autonomic Reflex, but Not Via Direct Dural Activation of Trigeminal Afferents
2008 - Marcelo Bigal, MD, PhD
Acute Migraine Medications and Evolution from Episodic to Chronic Migraine:
A Longitudinal Population-Based Study
2007 - Sheena K. Aurora, MD
Brainstem Dysfunction in Chronic Migraine as Evidenced by Neurophysiological
and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Studies
2006 - Nancy E.J. Berman, PhD
Serotonin in Trigeminal Ganglia of Female Rodents: Relevance to Menstrual Migraine
2005 - Rami Burstein, PhD
Terminating Migraine with Allodynia and Ongoing Central Sensitization
2004 - Peter J. Goadsby, MD, PhD
Posterior Hypothalmic and Brainstem Activation in Hemicrania Continua.
2003 - Rami Burstein, PhD
Differential Effects of Triptans on Physiological Properties of Peripheral and Central Trigemino
Vascular Neurons Reveal a Mechanism of Action Critical for Terminating Migraine
2002 - Anan Srikiatkhachorn, MD
5-HT2A Receptor Activation and Nitric Oxide Synthesis: A Possible Mechanism Determining
Migraine Attacks
2001 - K.M.A Welch, MD
Periaqueductal Gray Matter Dysfunction in Migraine: Cause or the Burden of Illness?
2000 - R.B. Lipton, MD
Sumatriptan for the Range of Headaches in Migraine Sufferers: Results of the Spectrum Study
1999 - S.K Aurora, MD
The Occipital Cortex is Hyperexcitable in Migraine: Evidence from TMS, fMRI, and MEG Studies
1998 - Ann I. Scher, MS
Prevalence of Frequent Headache in a Population Sample
1997 - R.A. Ophoff, MD
Involvement of a CA2+Channel Gene in Familial Hemiplegic Migraine and Migraine With
and Without Aura
1996 - F. Michael Cutrer, MD
Actions of Valproate and Neurosteroids in a Model of Trigeminal Pain
1996 - Peter J. Goadsby, MD, PhD
Central and Peripheral Trigeminovascular Activation in the Cat is Blocked by the
Serotonin (5HT) – 1D Receptor Against 311C90
1993 - S.J. Peroutka, MD, PhD
Anti-migraine Drug Interactions with Cloned Human 5-hydroxytryptamine Receptor Subtypes
1992 - Jean Schoenen, MD, PhD
Exteroceptive Suppression of Temporalis Muscle Activity in Patients with Chronic Headache
and in Normal Volunteers: Methodology, Clinical and Pathophysiological Relevance
1991 - S.J. Peroutka, MD, PhD
Anti-migraine Drug Interactions with Cloned Human 5-hydroxytryptamine Receptor
1990 - G.L. Barkley
Magnetoencephalographic Studies of Migraine
1989 - N.M. Ramadan
Low Brain Magnesium in Migraine
1988 - Rajiv Joseph, MD
Cystolic Ionized Calcium Homeotosis in Platelets: An Abnormal Sensitivity to PAF-Activation
in Migraine
1986 - Rajiv Joseph, MD
ATP Hyposecretion from Platelet Dense Bodies – Evidence for the Purinergic Hypothesis and
a Marker of Migraine
1984 - Jacqueline De Belleroche, PhD, MSCBA
Metabolic Abnormalities in Cluster Headache
1983 - J.W. Lance
Brainstem Influences on the Cephalic Circulation: Experimental Data from Cat and
Monkey of Relevance to the Mechanism of Migraine
1982 - Jes Oleson, MD
Spreading Cerebral Oligemia in Classical and Normal Cerebral Blood Flow in Common Migraine
1981 - R.C. Peatfield, MD
The Effect of Infused Prostacyclin in Migraine and Cluster Headache
1980 - Bruno Anselmi, MD
Endogeneous Opioids in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Blood in Idiopathic Headache Sufferers
1979 - John Stirling Meyer, MD
Abnormal Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Patients with Migraine and Cluster Headache
1978 - Fumihiko Sakai, MD
Regional Cerebral Hemodynamics During Migraine and Cluster Headache Measured
by the 133 xe Inhalation Method
1977 - Sunanda V. Deshmukh, MD, FFARCS
Cyclic Changes in Platelet Dynamics and the Pathogenesis and Prophylaxis of Migraine
1976 - K.M.A. Welch, MD
A Biochemical Comparison of Migraine and Stroke
1975 - Ottar Sjaastad, MD
Histamine and its Relations to Vascular Headache, with Particular Reference to
Cluster Headache
1974 - Zdenka Kalendovsky, MD
Complicated Migraine: Its Association with Increased Platelet Aggregability and
Abnormal Plasma Coagulation Factors
1973 - Pramod R. Saxena, MD
Selective Vasoconstriction in the Carotid Bed by Ergotamine: Possible Relevance to its
Anti-Migraine Action
1972 - Brian W. Somerville, MD, MRACP
The Influence of Progesterone and Estradiol Upon Migraine
1971 - Gerald S. Barolin, MD
Bioelectric Findings in Migraine
1970 - Yoshio Hosobuchi, MD
Descending Trigeminal Tractotomy Neurophysiological Approach
1969 - Ernst Thonnard-Neumann, MD
Some Interrelationships of Vasoactive Substances and Basophile Leukocytes in
Migraine Headaches
1968 - Edda Hanington, MB, BS
The Role of Tyramine in the Etiology of Migraine and Related Studies on the Cerebral
Extracerebral Circulations
1967 - James W. Lance, MD, FRACP
The Control of Cranial Arteries by Humoral Mechanisms and its Relation to the Migraine Syndrome