William Renthal, MD, PhD

John R. Graham Headache Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Dr. William Renthal is the Director of Research at the John R. Graham Headache Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He completed his MD, PhD and neurology residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, headache medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and postdoctoral research training at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Renthal treats patients with refractory headache and facial pain and directs a research laboratory that studies the genomic and epigenomic mechanisms that contribute to chronic headache and pain. He also directs the Harvard PRECISION Pain Center, a collaborative network of pain clinicians and scientists who procure phenotyped human pain-related tissues and characterize their cell types and states using single-cell multi-omic technologies. For this work he has received the Career Award in Medical Sciences from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the Harold Wolff-John Graham Pain Research Award from the American Academy of Neurology, the Rita Allen Scholar Award in Pain, and the Director’s Pioneer and Trailblazer Awards from the National Institutes of Health.