...finding the balance
About Dr. Kitaj:
| • | Dr. Kitaj was born in Troy, NY, grew up in Ohio, completed Barnard College of Columbia University earning her undergraduate degree in biology. |
| • | She obtained a second degree, in computer science, from Hunter College. |
| • | She completed Mt. Sinai Medical School, primary care internship at Yale, then neurology residency and chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She is Board Certified in neurology. |
| • | She frequently lectures to primary care physicians, internists, obstetrician/gynecologists and neurologists on how to treat headaches with a combination of traditional medicine and alternative medicine, discussing the scientific evidence both pro and con on traditional vs. alternative styles of treatments for headaches. |
| • | She has presented her research at American Headache Society and American Academy of Neurology and has been published in the journal Headache. |
| • | She speaks on treating all kinds of difficult headache patients: preteens and teenagers with headaches, hormonal migraines, pregnant migraineurs, sinus headaches, and post-traumatic headaches. |
| • | Because so many of the patients with headaches also have attention deficit disorder, Dr. Kitaj also treats ADD/ADHD in children age 8 and up to adults. She is interested in why so many headache patients also have ADD/ADHD. |
| • | She has practiced in Connecticut since 1997, opened her headache center in 2002, and opened a second office in Westchester County, New York in Yorktown Heights, in 2005 and has now moved this office to Croton-on-Hudson. |
