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Clinical Services
Richard B. Lipton, M.D.
Richard B. Lipton, M.D., is Professor and Vice Chair of Neurology, and Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He is also the Lotti and Bernard Benson Faculty Scholar at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Principal Investigator of the Einstein Aging Study and Director of the Montefiore Headache Center. Dr. Lipton earned his medical degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed a medical internship at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and his neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He also completed a fellowship in neuroepidemiology at Columbia University. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology.
Dr. Lipton holds leadership positions in several professional societies. He is a Past-President of the American Headache Society (AHS) and on the Executive Committee of the International Headache Society. He is an Associate Editor of both Cephalalgia and Headache and on the editorial boards of several journals, including Neurology.
Dr. Lipton has made numerous contributions to the neurology literature. He has published more than 400 original articles and reviews, as well as 6 books. His interests include headache epidemiology and clinical trials, cognitive aging and dementia as well as outcomes research. He has twice received the H.G. Wolff Research Award from the American Headache Society, and is the recipient (with Peter J. Goadsby, M.D. and Stephen Silberstein, M.D.) of the Medical Book Award from the British Medical Association for his text Headache in Clinical Practice (1998). He is co-editor (with Stephen Silberstein, M.D. and Donald Dalessio, M.D.) of Wolff’s Headache and Other Head Pain (Seventh Edition).
Seymour Solomon, M.D.
Dr. Seymour Solomon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1924 and received his primary and secondary education there. After graduating from Marquette University School of Medicine (now the Medical College of Wisconsin), he trained in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee. He completed his residency in neurology at Montefiore Hospital and then became Director of Neurology at Philadelphia General Hospital. The remainder of his career was at Montefiore Hospital and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in various roles. He was Director of EEG, acting chief of the department, and Vice Chairmen of Neurology. Ultimately, he became Director of the Montefiore Headache Unit in 1980, where he continues to work.
Dr. Solomon had faculty appointments at Temple University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has been professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine since 1983. Dr. Solomon has written more than 200 scientific papers, book chapters and reviews. He is author of The Headache Book for the lay population. His particular interests are the clinical aspects of headache including diagnosis, classification and definition of unusual headache syndromes, as well as clinical trials. Dr. Solomon initiated and was abstracts editor of the journal Headache.
Dr. Solomon has held many positions in the American Headache Society, including president, and is a past chairman of the American Council for Headache Education. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and fellow and regent of the American Headache Society. He is a member of the American Neurological Association, the American Pain Society, the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, the International Association for the Study of Pain, the International Headache Society and the World Federation of Neurology. Dr. Solomon has received awards from the National Headache Foundation, the American Council for Headache Education, the American Headache Society, and the Staff and Alumni Association of Montefiore.
Brian M. Grosberg, M.D.
Dr. Brian M. Grosberg is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He is also the Director of the Inpatient Headache Program and Program Director of the Headache Fellowship at the Montefiore Headache Center. Dr. Grosberg earned his medical degree at the SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse. He completed a medical internship at Maimonides Medical Center in New York and his neurology residency and headache and facial pain fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is board certified in neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and board certified in headache medicine by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties.
Dr. Grosberg is a member of the American Headache Society, the International Headache Society, the National Headache Foundation, the American Council of Headache Education and the American Academy of Neurology. He serves on the American Headache Society special interest sections for peripheral nerve blocks and other interventional procedures for headache and facial pain, academic affairs, headache classification, inpatient headache, refractory headache and women's issues. He is also an invited reviewer for the journals Cephalalgia and Headache.
Dr. Grosberg is actively involved in clinical research and serves as a research mentor. He has taken the lead on many clinical trials and initiated many clinic-based studies. Dr. Grosberg has authored over 20 publications, as well as two book chapters, and lectures extensively in his field. He has particular interests in the clinical aspects of headache including diagnosis, classification and definition of unusual headache syndromes, such as retinal migraine, new daily persistent headache and nummular headache. In addition, Dr. Grosberg has supported research by headache fellows, neurology residents and medical students. He has won several prestigious awards for his work, including the Clinical Headache Fellowship Award from the American Headache Society/ GlaxoSmithKline.
Dawn C. Buse, Ph.D.
Dawn Buse, Ph.D., is the Director of Psychology at the Montefiore Headache Center, an assistant professor in the department of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and an assistant professor in the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University Health Psychology Doctoral program. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State and a credentialed healthcare provider at the Montefiore Medical Center.
Dr. Buse provides clinical care to patients at the Montefiore Headache Center including assessment, cognitive behavioral therapy, and biofeedback. She also teaches and supervises graduate students and participates in the other faculty responsibilities in the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University health psychology doctoral program where she serves on several Ferkauf doctoral dissertation and masters thesis committees.
Dr. Buse conducts research in psychiatric and behavioral aspects of pain and headache, headache epidemiology, and women's health and has co-authored many articles and chapters on these topics. She is involved in ongoing research projects through the Montefiore Headache Center. Dr. Buse was the recipient of the "American Headache Society & Merck US Human Health Migraine & Women's Health Research Award" and is the vice chairman of the "Women's special interest" Section of the American Headache Society (AHS). She is also a member of the AHS Electronic Media Committee and AHS 50th Anniversary committee and serves on the World Health Organization "Lifting the Burden" global campaign.
Dr. Buse earned a doctorate in psychology at the University of Utah and completed an internship in medical psychology at the Boston Veteran's Administration Medical System and Harvard Medical School. She then completed adult and pediatric pain and headache fellowships at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Children's Hospital, Boston and Harvard Medical School.
Uri Napchan, M.D.
Uri Napchan, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Napchan earned his medical degree at the Universidad Central del Caribe in Puerto Rico in 2002. He completed an Internship in Internal Medicine at Hahnemann University Hospital/Drexel University College of Medicine, in Philadelphia, PA in 2003. He continued his medical training at Hahnemann University Hospital/Drexel University College of Medicine where he completed a neurology residency in 2006. After finishing his neurology residency, he further continued his medical training by completing an Interventional Pain Medicine Fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, Louisiana in 2007. He also completed a Headache and Facial Pain fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Headache Center in 2008.
Dr. Napchan is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Napchan is board certified in Pain Medicine. Dr. Napchan is a diplomate of the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS) in Headache Medicine.
Dr. Napchan is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Headache Society, the International Headache Society, and the American Pain Society.
Matthew S. Robbins, MD
Matthew S. Robbins, MD earned his B.S from Yale University and his M.D. from SUNY-Downstate College of Medicine. He completed his internship in internal medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital and his neurology residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Montefiore Medical Center, where he was also a chief resident. He then completed a fellowship in Headache Medicine and Facial Pain at the Montefiore Headache Center, and is now an assistant professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Headache Society, and the International Headache Society. He won the American Headache Society travel award in 2008, and his headache fellowship was funded by a Kirschstein-NRSA T32 Award.
Dr. Robbins' clinical responsibilities include running the neurology inpatient consult service at the Weiler/Einstein division of Montefiore, as well as being a staff neurologist at the Montefiore Headache Center.
Dr. Robbins is committed to education in clinical neurology and headache medicine for medical students, residents, and fellows. His research interests include new daily-persistent headache, migraine and cardiovascular disease, secondary headache disorders, and mentoring case report/series-writing and projects for residents and fellows.
Director, Psychology Training, Director, Cognitive Behavior Therapy Program
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
The patients, my colleagues, the psychiatry residents and psychology interns are amazing individuals. I learn so much from every interaction with them.
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