Medical Director, Headache Center of Excellence
VA Connecticut Healthcare System
Emmanuelle Schindler, MD, PhD is Medical Director of the Headache Center of Excellence at Veterans Affairs (VA) Connecticut Healthcare System and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Yale School of Medicine. Among her efforts to optimize headache diagnosis and management, she has worked to expand headache care to Veterans and educate practitioners nationally within VA. She has also developed and executed the first controlled trials investigating the effects of psilocybin in headache disorders. Previously, Dr. Schindler studied the neuropharmacology of psychedelics and other serotonergic compounds in the context of receptor binding and intracellular signaling. Her neuropharmacology background frames her endeavor to investigate the potential for psychedelics to serve as safe and effective headache medicines.