Faces Of Tbi

Join host Amy Zellmer as she speaks with Dr. Alison Alford. I was born and raised in Lancaster, PA.  I attended undergraduate at University of Miami obtaining a BS in Psychobiology.  I then attend Jefferson Medical College back in Philadelphia, PA.  Once I graduated, I did my residency and fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2012 I became a board-certified Child Neurologist.  I had a strong interest in headaches and studied to obtain my second board in Headache Medicine in 2013.  I have become the only board-certified Pediatric Headache Medicine Specialist in Virginia.  I would see a fair amount of post-concussion syndromes for their headache management.  However, in 2016 one of our concussion clinics lost their primary physician.  I, personally was not a fan of the way other clinics were run, so I decided to start managing more of the concussion symptoms myself.  I pride myself and my clinic on bringing the relationship back into medicine and I felt that needed to happen with concussion/TBI