John R. Graham Lecture Award
This award honors the AHS Immediate Past President every other year with a lecture at the Annual Scientific Meeting. When not awarded to the Immediate Past President, the award will be given to a person for their international leadership in research and education in the field of headache medicine. This award was named in honor of the late Dr. John R. Graham, for his contributions in the field of headache and his great kindness and personal touch in helping patients understand and cope with their headache problems.
Congratulations to the 2025 recipient!
Dawn C. Buse, PhD, FAHS
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Neurology
New York, NY
Your Work Matters. You Matter: Honoring Everyone Advancing Headache Science, Advocating, and Caring for People with Headache Diseases
Past Recipients
2024
Andrew C. Charles, MD, FAHS
Exciting Times for Headache Medicine: Updates from the Lab and the Clinic
2022
Peter J. Goadsby, MD, PhD, FAHS
Veni, Vidi, Ego conatus… In Memory of our Mentors
2021
Deborah I. Friedman, MD, MPH, FAHS
Practicing Headache Medicine in 2021: Realities on the Ground
2020
Kathleen B. Digre, MD, FAHS
Practical Approach to Eye Pain and Photophobia
2019
Vincent Martin, MD, FAHS
Migraine Trigger Factors: Fact vs. Fiction
2018
R. Allan Purdy, MD, FAHS
So, Headache is Not Neurology? Oh Wait, Yes it Is!
2017
Gretchen Tietjen, MD
Understanding Migraine by the Company It Keeps
2016
Lawrence C. Newman, MD, FAHS
Disabling Migraine
2015
Morris Levin, MD, FAHS
Diagnosing Headaches
2014
Elizabeth W. Loder, MD, MPH, FAHS
Headache Medicine: Past, Present and Future
2012
David W. Dodick, MD, FAHS
Changing Paradigms in Headache Medicine
2011
Werner J. Becker, MD, FAHS
The Challenge of Headache Management
2010
Fred D. Sheftell, MD
People I’ve Met, Places I’ve Been, Things I’ve Learned and … Little Known Facts in the History of Headache
2008
Paul Winner, DO
Seven Steps to a Healthy Brain: A Migraine Focus
2007
Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, FAHS
Sex Hormones and Headaches
2006
Alan G. Finkel, MD
Headache Medicine: A History of Subspecialty
2005
Robert B. Daroff, MD
Information, Reflections, and Advice
2004
Bahram Mokri, MD
A Journey in the Wonderland of Spontaneous CSF Leaks: Lessons of the Past Decade
2003
Richard B. Lipton, MD, FAHS
A Self-Administered Screener for Migraine in Primary Care
2002
James R. Couch, Jr., MD, PhD
Migraine-A “Matrix” Disorder
2000
Neil H. Raskin, MD
Conceptual Issues Surrounding Headache
1999
Dewey K. Ziegler, MD
How Did Twin Studies Affect Our Current Understanding of Migraine Genetics?
1998
Michael A. Moskowitz, MD
Migraine Myths & Messages
1997
Seymour Solomon, MD
Post-traumatic Migraine