Andrea Harriott MD PhD

Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Harriott has dual subspecialty training in vascular neurology and headache medicine, completing two fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital and The John R. Graham Headache Center. Dr. Harriott’s clinical research interests center on the association between migraine and vascular disease in young women. Dr. Harriott’s basic science research uses an optogenetic technique to elicit the electrical events responsible for migraine aura in rodents as a noninvasive model of episodic and chronic migraine aura to discover sex and gonadal hormone mechanisms of migraine pain and the role of the hypothalamus in mediating sex differences in migraine pathobiology

Dr. Harriott serves on the board of the American Headache Society, the American Migraine Foundation, and the Headache Cooperative of New England. She also serves on various committees of the American Academy of Neurology.