Dr. Riggins presented at AAN Annual meeting in April 2024
"Advocacy Cooled My Burnout, and Now I'm Fired Up" at the WellnessHub
Dr. Nina Riggins, Captain of the California AAN Advocacy Team # NOH23
👏 Miles for Migraine event in San Diego, November 5th, 2022. 🙌
“'We are seeing that the virus can trigger new daily, persistent headaches with a migraine-like quality in people without a history of migraine', says Nina Riggins, MD, PhD, FAAN, associate professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco."
- Interview with Dr. Nina Riggins in Brain & Life magazine which is affiliated with the American Academy of Neurology. Article addresses connection between Covid 19 and migraine, headache treatments. -
Author of an article in the Journal of Headache and Face Pain; Collaborated with Leading Headache Experts
American Headache Society members go to Capitol Hill to advocate with and for their patients
This past February, AHS members turned out in large numbers to represent the headache medicine community at the 13th Annual Headache on the Hill. At this legislative advocacy event, patients and providers work in tandem to lobby and educate their representatives and lawmakers about migraine and other headache disorders. This year, participants asked their representatives to amend and pass the Opioid Workforce Act H.R.3414 / S.2892, a bill that could greatly increase the number of doctors trained to treat migraine and headache disorders.
A Very Connected Flight
In February, Nina Riggins, MD was flying to Washington, DC to join a group of advocates “to address the severe shortage of headache medicine providers in our country,” she said. While in the air, she was contacted by a group of pre-med students at UC Berkeley who wanted to ask her what it is like to be a physician, and specifically a neurologist. Before Nina’s plane landed, she had a date with the undergrads. It had to be a virtual meeting due to COVID-19, so she prepared a slideshow to answer their questions in a Zoom session in May. She made a tremendous impression, and several students asked if they could volunteer to help her with research this summer. Nina hopes that some of them will eventually study at the Headache Center and grow into the providers that are so needed in her field.
– Neuro News June 2020 –
