Dr. Kenneth Holroyd, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Psychology at Ohio University, received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Headache Society.
Dr. Kenneth Holroyd
Holroyd was a member of the clinical psychology and clinical health psychology faculties for 35 years and co-director of the Headache Treatment & Research Clinic with sites at Ohio University and in Westerville and Columbus, OH. At Ohio University he taught graduate courses in Health Psychology, Clinical Interventions in Health
Psychology, Group Therapy and Psychopharmacology, as well as supervised students in the Clinical Health Psychology Interventions practicum which focuses on clinical health psychology in primary care. In 2002, he was elected to receive the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor Award, which is the highest distinction for faculty members at Ohio University.
Holroyd has conducted both laboratory research and clinical research examining chronic headache. The laboratory research examined the psychophysiology of chronic headache disorders and related pain disorders, attempting tounderstand the psychobiological processes that lead commonly occurring pain problems to become chronic paindisorders. The clinical research has focused on the role of psychological factors in headache disorders and on the evaluation of psychological interventions. Holroyd has been the PI on NIH (NINDS) sponsored clinical trials evaluating the separate and combined effects of psychological and drug therapies for chronic tension-type headache and for severe disabling migraine.
Holroyd has co-edited two books, authored or co-authored over 50 book chapters, well over 100 journal articles, and numerous reports, book reviews, technical reports, as well as two sets of patient learning materials designed for minimal contact treatment of recurrent headache disorders. He has served on panels for international (WHO), US Government (e.g., Agency for Health Care Quality & Research, NIH study sections), non-profits (e.g., Center for Health Policy Research & Education, Robert Wood Johnson), and commercial (e.g., Pharmaceutical Company) organizations as well as on the Boards of a number of national organizations including the American Headache Society®.
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