Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Eric Kaiser is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a native of Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin for his bachelor’s degree. He did his MD/PhD at the University of Iowa. With his PhD advisor, Andrew Russo, he helped develop a mouse of migraine, using CGRP to evoke light aversion. Then Dr. Kaiser did his neurology training at the University of Pennsylvania, where he stayed as an NIH-funded R25 research fellow, mentored by Geoffrey Aguirre. Their subsequent work on the photoreceptor basis of migraine-associated photophobia was published in PNAS and Neurology. Dr. Kaiser completed his Headache Medicine fellowship at Mass General Brigham. Dr. Kaiser’s current translational research program examines how trigeminal and light signals interact, leading to light sensitivity in humans and mice. He currently chairs the LGBTQIA+ special interest section of the American Headache Society.