Medical Director & Founder
Pennsylvania Headache Center
Dr. Lee Peterlin received her medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, completed a neurology residency at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and a headache fellowship at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. After her headache fellowship, Dr. Peterlin served as the Director of Headache Research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine before founding the Pennsylvania Headache Center (PHC) in 2021. In addition to her role as the Medical Director at PHC, she serves as an adjunct professor at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Dr. Peterlin has conducted NIH, foundational and pharmaceutical-sponsored headache research. She has published over 100 articles in the scientific literature, authored several book chapters, and co-edited a handbook on migraine. She received the NHF lectureship award for her work on the relationship between migraine and obesity and has served on the editorial boards for the journals Neurology and Headache.