Eric Kaiser, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Eric Kaiser is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. He received both his MD and PhD at the University of Iowa. With his PhD advisor, Dr. Andrew Russo, he helped develop a mouse of migraine, using CGRP to evoke light aversion. Dr. Kaiser then did his neurology training at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kaiser completed his Headache Medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MassGeneral Hospital. Dr. Kaiser’s current translational research program examines how trigeminal and light signals interact, leading to light sensitivity in humans and mice.