Elizabeth Loder Email & Phone Number

I am the head of research for The BMJ and a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. At The BMJ, I supervise an international team of editors who evaluate and select the research papers published in the journal. I also serve as Chief of the Division of Headache in the Department of Neurology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where I lead a team of 11 medical practitioners who provide care to people with complex headache disorders. I formerly served as the director of the inpatient pain management program at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. I am board certified in Internal Medicine and certified in Headache Medicine by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. I am the past president of the American Headache Society the current vice-president of the Headache Cooperative of New England, and have served on the board of directors of the International Headache Society. I have extensive experience as a clinical investigator in clinical trials of treatments for migraine and other headache disorders. My current academic and professional work is focused on the appraisal and dissemination of medical research. I speak regularly at regional, national and international medical meetings on topics related to pain and headache as well as publication practices and ethics.

Listed skills include Clinical Trials, Medical Journalism, Medical Research, Leadership, and 4 others.