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Dr. Suzanne Christie MD, FRCPC
Dr. Suzanne Christie MD, FRCPC
Dr. Suzanne Christie is a neurologist and headache expert who has devoted her career to improving headache care in Canada. She is one of the pioneers in headache subspecialty education and has trained many of the leading Headache Neurologists in Canada. She founded the Ottawa Headache Centre and serves as its Director.
She is Active Staff at the Ottawa Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of Ottawa. She is President of the Canadian Headache Society (CHS). Along with the Advocacy Committee of the CHS, she has supported collaboration between the CHS and Migraine Canada to reach out to Ministers of Health or their delegates across Canada to improve access to newer therapies for patients with migraine.
Headache research
Headache research
She has worked as Principal Investigator in multiple clinical trials and publishes in the area of headache. She is an author on all CHS Clinical Practice Guidelines including the Canadian Headache Society Guideline for Migraine Prophylaxis and the Canadian Headache Society: Acute Drug Therapy for Migraine Headache. She is also senior author on the Canadian Headache Society Systematic Review and Recommendations in the Treatment of Migraine Pain in Emergency Settings and the recent Updated Canadian Headache Society Migraine Prevention Guideline with Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, 2024.
Headache education
Headache education
Dr. Christie is the Director of the Headache Medicine Fellowship Program, University of Ottawa. She and her team at the Ottawa Headache Centre and Ottawa Hospital provide advanced training in Headache Medicine to multiple Canadian residents as well as residents from the Middle East certifying them as Headache Specialists.
She and her team are also actively involved in teaching neurology residents and pain medicine residents using a multifaceted one-month Headache Block which has been very successful. She has also been an invited speaker at many local and national conferences for neurologists and family physicians.
Affiliations
Affiliations
University of Ottawa - Assistant Professor
Canadian Headache Society - President
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