Nada Hindiyeh, MD is a board-certified neurologist and headache specialist who spent nine years on the faculty of Stanford University's Department of Neurology, where she directed clinical research for the Division of Headache Medicine and served as principal investigator on numerous migraine trials. She earned her medical degree from the University of Toledo College of Medicine, completed her neurology residency at UC Irvine (serving as chief resident), and finished a headache and facial pain fellowship at Stanford.

Dr. Hindiyeh co-chairs the American Headache Society's Electronic Media Committee, was named an AHS Emerging Leader, and serves as Executive Vice President of the World Headache Society. Her clinical focus spans migraine pathophysiology, neuromodulation, and diagnostic advances in chronic headache care.

Dr. Hindiyeh shares her own experience with migraine, both as a patient and as a specialist, and discusses treating a colleague's chronic migraine with non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation.

"What got me interested in the vagus nerve is... I'm very interested in the nervous system as a whole, and the one I think is most interesting is the vagus nerve, because that connects the brain to the gut — and those are two very important vital areas, not only for migraine but overall brain health. The vagus nerve plays a big role in pain modulation and in inflammation."