Susan Hutchinson MD

Susan Hutchinson, MD, is board-certified in Family Medicine and has a subspecialty in Headache. She is Director and Founder of the Orange County Migraine & Headache Center, Irvine, California. She is also on the Volunteer Faculty Department in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California (UC)-Irvine Medical Center. She concentrates on the management of migraine and mood disorders with a special interest in the relationship between both conditions and hormones.

Dr. Hutchinson is a national speaker on both migraines and depression and was awarded the National Headache Foundation Lectureship Award in February 2003 in recognition of her contribution to headache education. She served as Chair of the Women’s Issues Section of the American Headache Society (AHS) from 2005 to 2010 and is the Immediate Past-President of the Headache Cooperative of the Pacific (HCOP). In recent years, she has co-authored numerous journal articles and chapters on the subject of migraine. In 2013, Dr. Hutchinson wrote and published her first book to be used as a resource for female migraine sufferers. In 2022, she helped create a CME Program on Treating Migraine throughout a Woman’s Life in conjunction with the American Headache Society (AHS).