Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, FACP
Director
Phone: 215-955-2243
FAX: 215-955-1960
8130 Gibbon Building
111 South 11th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
The Jefferson Headache Center, now part of Jefferson’s Department of Neurology, is an unusual medical facility offering headache
sufferers the services of a highly skilled team of neurologists, psychiatrists and psychologists who are sensitive to individual
problems and needs.
The Center’s goals are to diagnose each patient in an accurate and timely fashion, and to develop an individualized treatment
program to reduce the frequency and intensity of headaches, thereby enabling the patient to return to a more normal and active
lifestyle.
Physicians
- Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, FACP, Professor of Neurology, Jefferson Medical College, Director
- William B. Young, MD, Neurologist
- Gregory Tramuta, MD, Psychiatrist
- Ronald S. Kaiser, PhD, Psychologist
- Joseph P. Primavera, III, PhD.; Psychologist
About the director
Stephen D. Silberstein, M.D., FACP, Professor of Neurology, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
and his staff come to Jefferson from The Comprehensive Headache Center at Germantown Hospital, Philadelphia. Dr. Silberstein
had been director of the Headache Center since its inception in 1984. He was also director of Germantown Hospital's Electroencephalography
Laboratory, and chief of Germantown's Neurology section. He also held faculty positions at the Temple University School of
Medicine.
Dr. Silberstein received his doctor of medicine degree in 1967 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also did his
internship and residency. He trained and did medical research at the National Institutes of Mental Health. Dr. Silberstein
has done extensive research and investigational drug studies in his field, focusing primarily on the treatment of acute migraine
headache and the role of sex hormones in menstrual migraine. There are nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and
abstracts resulting from his research.
Dr. Silberstein currently serves on the editorial boards of several professional publications including Headache , Topics in Pain Management and Cephalalagia . He is also a past president and vice president of the Philadelphia Neurological Society.
Jefferson Headache Center
More information can be found at Thomas Jefferson University.
Featured in the Media
Botox May Quiet Chronic Daily Headache
(April 15, ABC News) Botox injections may be an effective treatment for sufferers of chronic daily headache, according to
a new study. "The diagnosis of chronic daily headache is used in patients who have 15 or more 'headache days' in a 30-day
period," said study co-investigator Dr. Stephen Silberstein, director of the Jefferson Headache Center at Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital in Philadelphia. Experts estimate about four percent of the world's population suffers from this type
of recurrent headache pain. In their study involving 117 patients, Silberstein's team found that after three cycles of Botox
(botulinum toxin type A) injections in the face, head and neck, nearly 60 percent of participants experienced an average 50
percent reduction in headaches.
Media Coverage:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthology/story?id=673669
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/health/11397712.htm
http://www.healthscout.com/news/1/525156/main.html
http://www.gjsentinel.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/
http://www.daytondailynews.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/hach/525156.html
http://www.wacotrib.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/
Jefferson Neurologists Find Botulinum Toxin Type A Treatment Effective for Chronic Daily Headache Sufferers with Migraine
(Published 4-14-2005) Neurologists at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, have had success in preventing and
treating Chronic Daily Headache, or CDH, in migraine sufferers with injections of botulinum toxin type A, popularly known
as “Botox.”
Featured in the Media:
Stormy Weather May Mean Agony For Migraine Sufferers
(Aired 3-24 -05, WCAU-TV Ch. 10) Not many people enjoy stormy weather. But those who suffer from migraines may have an additional
reason to dislike stormy weather.
“I can see when the fronts are coming and I know that they might be a bad day for me,” said Sharon Kane, a migraine sufferer
from Drexel Hill, Pa.
At the Jefferson Headache Center, doctors suggest keeping a record of when your migraines happen. “Find out what days you
have the headache and then go and get the barometric pressure weather report, and you can see if the weather triggered your
headache, said Stephen Silberstein, M.D., professor of Neurology, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.
Media Coverage:
http://www.nbc10.com/health/4318628/detail.html
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