Dr. Alan M. Rapoport, is director and co-founder of The
New England Center for Headache in Stamford, Connecticut. He was also a
founder of the inpatient headache unit at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich,
CT, where he was Chief of neurology from 1983 until 1993. Dr. Rapoport
is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology at the Yale University
School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
Dr. Rapoport’s publications include a new case-based learning
textbook for physicians and nurses, Advanced Therapy of Headache
(BC Decker Inc 1999), which he co-authored with Fred D. Sheftell and A.
Allan Purdy; Headache Disorders: A management guide for practitioners
(W.B. Saunders Company 1996), co-authored with Fred. D. Sheftell, M.D.;
and chapters in other medical texts as author or co-author as well as more
than100 articles that have appeared in medical journals. In addition, he
and Dr. Sheftell have authored three books for patients including Conquering
Headache (2nd edition 1998, Empowering Press), Headache Relief for
Women (Little, Brown and Company, 1995), and Headache Relief
(Simon and Schuster, 1990).
Dr. Rapoport received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth
College in 1962 and his medical degree from Downstate Medical Center, State
University of New York in 1966. He completed his residency in neurology
at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in 1970 and spent two years doing
research in neuromuscular disease at the National Institutes of Health
in Bethesda, Md.
He is Chairman of the International Headache Society (IHS)
Committee on Education and Membership, founder and president of the Fairfield
County Neurology Society, and immediate past president of The Headache
Consortium of New England. He is a member of the editorial board of the
international headache journal Cephalalgia.
