Dr. Teshamae Monteith graduated from medical school at the University of Miami in 2004. While training, she developed an appreciation for the brain and an enthusiasm for the potential of clinical advances to reduce suffering. She went on to complete her neurology residency at the New York University School of Medicine in 2008. During her subsequent fellowship at the Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson Headache Center, she developed a comprehensive approach to headache management. Dr. Monteith pursued a second fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, from 2009 to 2011, where she was involved in research studies involving migraine and other headache disorders. Currently, she is an associate professor of clinical neurology, chief of the Headache Division, and the headache medicine fellowship director at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. As a result of her passion for training the next generation of specialist, Dr. Monteith became the founding chair of the New Investigator and Trainee Section of the American Headache Society.

Dr. Monteith has served as a peer reviewer for several journals and grants, and she has also given regional, national, and international lectures in migraine and other headache disorders. She is on the editorial board for the American Migraine Foundation and the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) Brain and Life Magazine. She is also on the editorial board for the Neurology Journal and is a senior host for the Neurology Podcast and the Neurology Minute. Dr. Monteith is the Associate Editor of the Continuum Audio podcast. She has been a guest editor for the New England Journal of Medicine Group and was featured in the Lancet Neurology’s Lifeline.