Semin Neurol 2018; 38(06): 599-600
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1676294
Introduction to the Guest Editors
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Shuhan Zhu, MD and James Otis, MD, FAAN

David M. Greer
1   Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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Publication History

Publication Date:
06 December 2018 (online)

The Guest Editors of this issue of Seminars in Neurology are Drs. Shuhan Zhu and James Otis from Boston University School of Medicine

Dr. Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University. She attended Case Western Reserve University for her BA and MD degrees prior to performing her internship at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then was a resident in neurology at BU, prior to doing her headache fellowship at the Thomas Jefferson Headache Center in Philadelphia. She has won numerous awards and accolades in her brief career to date, and she is clearly seen as a rising star in the field of headache and pain medicine. She is a revered teacher and colleague at BU and is certain to make big impacts in the field of headache and pain medicine in the years to come.

Dr. Otis is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Boston University. After attending Harvard University, he received his MD from New York Medical College and then did his residency at Boston University as well where he became the chief resident. He has done fellowships in both epilepsy and pain and has been on the faculty at BU School of Medicine since 1991. In 2016, he returned to the classroom to get his MBA in Health Sector Management at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. Dr. Otis has served as the director of the Pain and Headache Management Group at BU since 1991, and has received numerous teaching awards from both the residents and students. He is an active lecturer on pain and headache on both the national and international level.

This issue on “Headache and Pain” is one that will surely be useful to most if not all practitioners. We greatly appreciate the efforts of Drs. Zhu and Otis, as well as all of the contributing authors for their work in this issue of Seminars in Neurology, and we hope you find it informative, practical, and cutting edge.