Assistant Professor
MGB/Harvard Medical School
Hsinlin Thomas Cheng, MD PhD, is the Director of Headache and Neuropathic Pain Unit, Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He specializes in both adult Neurology and Pain Medicine. Dr. Cheng treats patients suffered from headache to other neuropathic pain syndromes. Dr. Cheng completed his doctoral program of Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. He received his residency training in the Department of Neurology at Wayne State University before taking on a clinical fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a research fellowship at the Weill Medical College at Cornell University. Dr. Cheng joined the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital in July, 2013.
Dr. Cheng is a member of American Pain Society, and American Academy of Neurology. He is a fellow of American Neurological Association. He received a NIH KO8 award. Previously, he was a recipient of a Fellowship Training Grant from the National Cancer Institute from 2004-06. He was awarded Wolfe Research Prize by the American Neurological Association in 2010, and Freeman Pain Award from 2014-17.
Dr. Cheng is devoted to research, clinical practice, and education to improve the current knowledge and management of headache and neuropathic pain. He researches the molecular mechanisms of headache and neuropathic pain in both laboratory and clinical settings.