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Media Appearances

  • Dr. Bernstein is interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio by Joy Cardin on Tuesday, Sept. 16 Click here

Other Media About The Migraine Brain

  • Dr. Bernstein was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air on Nov. 4, 2008. Click Here
  • Newsweek talks to Dr. Bernstein about migraines. Click Here
  • MSNBC.com features The Migraine Brain. Click Here
  • Dr. Bernstein is interviewed on KMOX radio in St. Louis about The Migraine Brain Click Here
  • Boston Magazine talks to Dr. Bernstein about The Migraine BrainClick Here
  • Dr. Bernstein talks about The Migraine Brain in The Newton TabClick Here
  • Elaine talks about Dr. Bernstein and The Migraine Brain in the Melrose Free PressClick Here
  • EmpowHer talks to Dr. Bernstein about finding the right migraine doctor. Click Here
  • KUNI public radio in Iowa talks to Dr. Bernstein about The Migraine Brain. Click Here

Contact Information

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Carolyn Bernstein, M.D.

Carolyn Bernstein, M.D., is an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, where she has taught neurology for more than 15 years. In 2006, Dr. Bernstein won the Harvard Medical School Faculty Prize for Teaching Excellence, as chosen by the Harvard Medical School students. In 2007, she was named the recipient of the Leonard Tow Award for Humanism in Medicine, given by Harvard Medical School and the Arnold Gold Foundation.

In 2007, Dr. Bernstein was chosen by the National Headache Foundation for its Headache Healthcare Provider of the Year award.

In 2006, Dr. Bernstein opened her own headache clinic for women, the Women’s Headache Center at Cambridge Health Alliance, designed by her and a team of her patients to address the needs of headache patients.

Dr. Bernstein is a staff neurologist at Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more than 17 years, she has treated migraine and other headache patients, using a patient-centered approach in which she and her patients work together to find the best treatment for their unique health needs. She is a board-certified neurologist and belongs to the American Academy of Neurology.

A graduate of Brown University, she speaks fluent Spanish.

Elaine McArdle

Elaine McArdle, J.D., has been a journalist for more than 20 years, writing on the widest range of issues for a variety of magazines and newspapers including the Boston Globe, the Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Magazine, Harvard Law Bulletin, and many others.

A series of articles she wrote about systemic problems in the Massachusetts court system, “Disorder in the Courts,” won awards from the American Bar Association, the New England Newspaper Association, and garnered the Massachusetts Bar Association’s first-ever “Excellence in Law-Related Journalism Award.”

Elaine is a graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School and Centenary College of Louisiana. She has taught media law in law school and to practicing lawyers.

She teaches writing and interviewing at Grub Street, Boston’s premier writers’ workshop.