Grace Forde, MD
Director of Neurological Services, North American Partners in Pain Management
Dr. Grace Forde is Director of Neurological Services at North American Partners in Pain Management, Lake Success, New York. Previously, she was Director of the Headache Clinic at North Shore University Hospital, Syosset, New York. As part of her research, she has conducted multiple clinical trials assessing the safety and efficacy of medications for the treatment of headache and various neuropathic pain syndromes.
In 1995, Dr. Forde was honored with The Golden Neuron Award, which was presented to the best resident teacher by students in the neuroscience department of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She continues to teach and is involved in several different programs dedicated to teaching other physicians about the management of chronic neuropathic pain and migraines. She has published articles on neuropathic pain, myofascial pain syndrome and migraines. She has also written and coauthored articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects, including the treatment of migraines, trigeminal neuralgia, post-herpetic neuralgia, myofascial pain syndrome, and the diagnosis of low-back pain.
Dr. Forde is the current Secretary of the New York State Pain Society, and a member of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Pain Society, the International Association for the Study of Pain, the Long Island Headache Society, the American Association for the Study of Headache, and the International Headache Society.
Dr. Forde is board certified in neurology and pain management. She received her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, and completed a residency in neurology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and a fellowship in pain management and headaches at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.