The East Bay Headache Support Group (EBHSG) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a forum for headache sufferers.
The EBHSG meets four times a year at John Muir Medical Center - Walnut Creek Campus in Walnut Creek, CA, and is open to all headache sufferers and their families. At each meeting, a speaker from the medical field provides a presentation that relates to headache suffering, and a question/answer session that follows. Although the meetings are free, donations are accepted to help cover costs for printing, postage and maintaining the Web site.
To view the upcoming meeting schedule, click here.
For those of you who do not live in the area and cannot attend the support group meetings, notes taken of the EBHSG's featured speakers' presentations are posted on this Web site.
The EBHSG also publishes a bimonthly newsletter called Headlines, which provides a variety of information surrounding headaches. Copies of past and current newsletters are posted on the web site as well.
The EBHSG is one of 23 active supports groups across the country operating under the auspices of the American Council for Headache Education (ACHE).
We are enthusiastic about sharing the EBHSG with headache sufferers world-wide, and hope you enjoy exploring our Web site.
East Bay Headache Support Group Planning Committee:
Interested in statistics?
Since 1996, the East Bay Headache Support Group has held 93 consecutive meetings (as of February, 2007). We met monthly from January 1996 through December 1999, then bimonthly through 2006, and now 4 times per year, Average attendance is 29.
Dr. Michael Stein, co-founder and medical advisor for the group, was speaker or discussion facilitator for 22 meetings, and 54 guest speakers have presented information on many different topics, but all related to living with, preventing or treating headaches.
Also, 26 Personal Profiles have been submitted by headache sufferers for publication in our newsletter.