Assistant Professor, Neurology
School of Medicine

Women's health and headache, underserved populations in headache

Future of Headache Medicine Award, 2022
Frontiers in Headache Research Award, 2021
Special Recognition for Scholarly Activity, 2021
Teaching Star Commendation, 2021
Outstanding Leadership and Community Service Award, 2015

Dr. Crystal Jicha is a board-certified headache specialist and neurologist. Her practice is centered on headache and facial pain disorders including migraine, cluster headache, occipital neuralgia, low- and high-pressure headaches, trigeminal neuralgia and more. She performs headache-related procedures including Botox, nerve blocks, trigger point injections, and sphenopalatine ganglion blocks.

Dr. Jicha received her medical degree at the University of Kentucky and completed an adult neurology residency at Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, NY where she served as chief resident. She stayed at Montefiore Medical Center to complete her fellowship in Headache Medicine.

Jicha, C.J., Saxon, D., Lofwall, M.R., and Fanucchi, L.C. 2019, Substance use disorder assessment, diagnosis, and management for patients hospitalized with severe infections due to injection drug use, J. Addict. Med. 13(1): 69-74.

Jicha, C.J., Lofwall, M.R., Nuzzo, P.A., Babalonis, S., Elayi, S.C., and Walsh, S.L., 2015. Safety of oral dronabinol during opioid withdrawal in humans, Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 157: 179-183.

American Headache Society

American Academy of Neurology

Headache Cooperative of the Pacific

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Last updated
01/04/2023