Deena E. Kuruvilla, M.D. Bio
Deena E. Kuruvilla, M.D., is a board certified neurologist, headache specialist and Director of the Westport Headache Institute. She has served as assistant professor and associate program director for the Headache fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine.
Dr. Kuruvilla has conducted research studies on medical devices, complementary and integrative medicine and procedural approaches for the treatment of headache and pain. She is the former chair of the complementary and integrative medicine section and current chair of the women’s health section of the American Headache society. She has also been an invited reviewer and author for many peer-reviewed publications including Headache, Cephalalgia, JAMA, and the British Medical Journal.
Dr. Kuruvilla’s research and clinical work has been widely featured in the press, including Prevention Magazine, Neurology Today, the Hartford Courant, and the Wall Street Journal.