Delivering Focused Training in Child & Adolescent Headache Disorders
The Pediatric Headache Fellowship at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin provides fellows with clinical experience, personalized education and dedicated research opportunities to achieve individual academic goals, with the broader aim of developing new leaders in the field of pediatric headache medicine and serving the Central Texas community.
Certified by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties, the one-year fellowship trains physicians to evaluate and treat children and adolescents with debilitating headache disorders, including migraine, tension-type headaches, post-traumatic headache, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias and pediatric episodic conditions including abdominal migraine and cyclic vomiting syndrome.
The Pediatric Headache Fellowship provides a strong foundation in the pathology, neuroradiologic imaging characteristics, clinical evaluation, diagnosis and management of headache disorders at a level beyond that expected of a child neurologist. This includes experience in procedures such as nerve blocks and Botox, as well as specialized medication and non-medication treatment options such as neuromodulation devices. The program also provides access to various complementary and behavioral management modalities. Fellows not only gain expertise in treating headache patients in the outpatient setting but also get exposure to both the infusion centerand inpatient settings.
The program’s team includes two child neurologists who are board-certified in pediatric headache medicine, a pediatric headache-trained nurse practitioner, two fellowship-trained pediatric pain psychologists and a physical/vestibular therapists. The team collaborates closely with other pediatric neuroscience experts, including neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuro-ophthalmologists, hospitalists, social workers, child life specialists and more.
The fellowship takes a whole-person approach to designing targeted, long-term treatment plans that combine cutting-edge medical and nonmedical treatments, including medication optimization, infusions, cognitive behavioral therapy and physical therapy.
The Pediatric Headache Fellowship is affiliated with Dell Med’s departments of Neurology and Pediatrics.
