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Allan Ronald Purdy

Allan Ronald Purdy MD, FRCSC

Neurology
Mount Royal, New Jersey, United States of America

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R. Allan Purdy is Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at Dalhousie University. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine, and Chief of the Medicine Service of the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie University from 2005 to June of 2011. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, He was the Professor and Head of Neurology at Dalhousie from 1994 to 2006.

Dr. Purdy is Past - President of the Canadian Headache Society. He is on the editorial boards of Cephalalgia and Headache and is on the Boards of the American Headache Society and International Headache Society. He is the Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the American Headache Society and is Co-Chair of the Scientific Program for the International Headache Society in Boston in 2013.

He has received Excellence in Teaching Awards from his University on numerous occasions. He is the 2005 recipient of the Arnold P. Friedman Distinguished Clinician Research Award from the American Headache Society for outstanding contribution to the field of headache, and the 2007 Life Time Achievement Award from the Headache Cooperative of New England. He was elected a Fellow of the American Headache Society in 2010 and is the current Treasurer of the American Headache Society.
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