About
Headache doctors created this website to help teens and their families to gain better control of headaches, get appropriate medical care and limit the disability caused by headaches.
Who We Are
Dr. Jennifer Bickel
Jennifer Bickel, MD, is a neurologist and medical director of the headache program at Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics in Kansas City, MO. As a board-certified headache medicine specialist, she treats children with refractory headaches with comprehensive services including medications, self-regulation training, lifestyle management, procedures, acupuncture and other researched modalities. In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Bickel is a published researcher, political advocate for headache research funding, and an associate professor at University of Missouri - Kansas City which she directs the Medical Neuroscience course for the medical school.
Dr. Mark Connelly
Mark Connelly, PhD, is a pediatric psychologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics in Kansas City, MO with expertise in pain assessment and management. He co-directs the Comprehensive Headache Clinic at Children’s Mercy Hospital where he works as part of an interdisciplinary team dedicated to helping youth with refractory headaches. Dr. Connelly is widely published in the area of assessment and treatment of headaches and other pain disorders and maintains an active grant-funded program of research in this area.
Contact
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