Monday June 16: An Evening with Dr. Claire Sandoe

Migraine is a brain disease, and the headache component gets a lot of our attention, but the prodromal and postdromal phases, as well as the aura, can cause diagnostic confusion and create management challenges.

Migraine may, outside of headache, present with emotional and cognitive symptoms, fatigue, autonomic instability, gastrointestinal symptoms, sensitivities to sensory input, vertigo, or even chills! It can be a great mimic that can cloud your differential diagnosis until you add it to the list of possibilities, and once you do, you may realize that you are seeing more patients living with migraine in your practice than you realized.

You are invited to spend an evening exploring everything about migraine but the headache.

Our guide for the evening will be Dr. Claire Sandoe. Dr. Sandoe is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Toronto and a headache neurologist at the Women’s College Hospital Centre for Headache. She serves on the board of the Canadian Headache Society, the Education Committees of the International Headache Society and the American Headache Society, and is co-chair of the Canadian Headache Society National Neurology Resident Headache Course as well as the American Headache Society’s Mastering Migraine Therapies program. 

Tuesday May 27: An Evening with Dr. Paul Newhouse

 Are you under-prescribing nicotine? Before you respond with “WTF?” (What’s This Foolishness?), please take a moment to consider this: the potential therapeutic use of nicotine has been an ongoing question for medical research since 1926. Investigations as to nicotine’s use to treat neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Mild Cognitive Impairment as well as neuropsychiatric conditions like ADHD, schizophrenia, autism, depressions, Down’s Syndrome, and chemobrain has been going on for years without receiving much attention in the medical community.

You are invited to spend an evening with one of the world’s leading experts on the clinical use of nicotine in order to educate yourself about a potential new tool for your therapeutic toolkit.

Our guide for the evening will be Dr. Paul A. Newhouse,  Director of the Center for Cognitive Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is also Jim Turner Professor of Cognitive Disorders at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Pharmacology, and Medicine.

World No Tobacco Day is May 31, a day dedicated to raising awareness of the dangers of smoking. Please join us a few days before that to consider the benefits of nicotine and the risks of throwing out the baby with the bathwater.