Amaal J. Starling MD, FAHS, FAAN

Dr. Amaal J. Starling is an Associate Professor of Neurology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. She joined Mayo in 2012 and is currently a board-certified Consultant within the Department of Neurology. She is presently the Program Director for the Headache Medicine Fellowship and is Program Director for the Transitional Year Residency Program in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science – Arizona Campus.

Dr. Starling received her M.D. degree from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. She completed a Transitional Year Residency, a Neurology Residency, and a Headache Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was also the External Chief Resident for the Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Arizona.

Starling is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the American Headache Society (AHS). She is an active member of the American Medical Association and the American Pain Society. Dr. Starling serves on the advisory boards of Alder, AMGEN, Eli Lilly and Company, the International Concussion Society (ICS), NeurologyLive, the NDPH Research Foundation, and the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. In addition, she has served as the Co-Chair of the American Headache and Migraine Association, Chair of the New Investigator and Trainee Special Interest Section of the AHS. She has been an invited speaker to many international, national, and regional meetings and has been a perennial speaker at the AHS Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Dr. Starling has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and abstracts related to her fields of interest, which include migraine, concussion, posttraumatic headache, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, secondary headaches, telemedicine and teleconcussion, neurology resident education, and professionalism and clinical ethics. She is an active participant and member of many educational and departmental committees within Mayo Clinic.