Deanna
Duggan,
DNP, CPNP-PC, PMHS, AQH
Assistant Professor/Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital
Dr. Deanna Duggan, DNP is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and Headache Specialist with 19 years of experience in child neurology at Texas Children's Hospital. Dr. Duggan completed her baccalaureate nursing degree at McNeese State University in 1998 and graduate pediatric nursing studies at Wright State University in 2002. She earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice in 2019 at Texas Woman's University. Dr. Duggan is an active member in several national professional headache organizations and currently serves as Secretary with the Association of Child Neurology Nurses. ACNN awarded her the NP Excellence Award in 2024.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
More individuals complain about headaches than any other condition. Headaches are disorders without a biological marker; the diagnosis is based on history and symptoms. Migraine is the third most prevalent disorder affecting 15% of Americans. As the most stigmatized neurological disease, society and media view it as just a bad headache, instead of a debilitating and disabling disease. Therefore, migraine is often underdiagnosed and undertreated. Similarly, cluster headache, aka suicide headache, remains widely underdiagnosed due to insufficient awareness among physicians frequently causing…