UA Dinoff Lecture to Focus on Headaches

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. Frank Andrasik, senior research scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and professor of psychology at the University of West Florida, will be the guest speaker for the annual Michael Dinoff Memorial Lecture at The University of Alabama on Friday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. in 208 Gordon Palmer Hall.

The Michael Dinoff Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the UA department of psychology in memory of Dr. Michael Dinoff, who was a professor of psychology and director of UA’s Psychological Clinic from 1963 until his death in 1982.

For the Dinoff Lecture, Andrasik will discuss “Uncommon Cures for the Common Headache.” The lecture is open to the public.

Andrasik received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Ohio University in 1979. He then joined the psychology faculty of the State University of New York at Albany where he established and directed a clinical research unit investigating both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches to varied stress and pain problems.

He joined the faculty of West Florida in 1987, where he has focused his research primarily in the area of assessment and treatment of the chronic headache. He has been the recipient of several federal and foundation research grants including a Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Neurological Communicative Disorders and Stroke. Andrasik has also served on numerous editorial review boards including Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback and Behavior Therapy.

Andrasik has served as a consultant to a number of human service agencies in the areas of mental health, forensics, mental retardation, cerebral palsy and developmental disabilities; he has published some 170 articles and chapters on the topics of pain, stress, biofeedback and organizational behavior management.