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Show Neuro-Ophthalmology News Section Editors: Kathleen B. Digre, MD Meagan Seay, DO The American Headache Society Hosted the 2020 Virtual Scottsdale Headache Symposium T he first-ever virtual American Headache Society Scottsdale Virtual Headache Symposium was launched on Saturday, November 21, 2020—it was a combination of live streamed events and prerecorded talks. The organizers were our own Deborah Friedman MD, along with Christine Lay, MD, and Stewart Tepper, MD. Although a neuro-ophthalmologist might think that there would be nothing in it for them, you would be pleasantly surprised! First, if you ever wanted to learn any headache medicine to help your patients and understand primary and secondary headaches better, this is the meeting for you. Normally hosted in Scottsdale, Arizona, the last weekend before Thanksgiving, headache medicine is explained from beginning knowledge to advanced. This year was no different. Headache 101 gave the basics of diagnosis, pathophysiology, acute, and preventive treatments as well as a primer on the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias—and advanced covered the difficult topics of chronic migraine! Short 10- to 12-minute lectures covered several hours of headache topics and information in an easily digestible format. Second, there were plenty of pearls for neuro-ophthalmologists too delivered by our own North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society members! Deborah Friedman covered headaches associated with low low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure, and Dr. Kathleen Digre reviewed high CSF pressure headaches. Dr. Deborah Friedman also teamed with Dr. Linda Gray Leith to show images of headache—including viewing the optic disc and finer points about magnetic resonance and brain imaging. Dr. Ben Frishberg stressed how important the knowledge of neuro- e242 ophthalmologic findings in diagnosing primary and secondary headaches. Third, some lectures would be useful to your every day practice of neuro-ophthalmology such as the “Basics of Vestibular Migraine” by Dr. Shin Beh and looking for vascular causes of secondary headache by Andrea Harriott. The meeting is still available at least for the next 4–5 months. Nonmembers can sign up for a very low rate, and for students and residents, it is FREE! I hope to see you at one of these live meetings, but if you want a GREAT overview virtually, this meeting is still for you! Register now: https://www. eventscribe.net//2020/VirtualAHSScottsdaleHeadache Symposium/login.asp. There is also free meeting being offered virtually as well: Next Generation Headache Symposium. These lectures cover pathophysiology, epidemiology acute and preventive, and behavioral therapy options. All lectures are evidencebased, and while you have to register, they are free. See: https:// americanheadachesociety.org/education-training/next-gen/. Learn some headache medicine to improve the lives of all our neuro-ophthalmology patients! Kathleen B. Digre, MD Departments of Neurology, Ophthalmology, Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Digre: J Neuro-Ophthalmol 2021; 41: e242 Copyright © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited. |
