Swedish Hospital affiliated headache specialist and West Seattle resident Dr. Sheena Aurora recently received the prestigious Harold G. Wolff Lecture Award at the American Headache Society's 49th-annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago.

The award is given annually to that person who contributes the best original paper on headache, head or face pain, or on the nature of pain itself. The title of her award-winning paper was "Brainstem and Cortical Dysfunction in Chronic Migraine; Evidenced by Neurophysiological and Positron Emission Tomography."

Dr. Aurora is now a three-time recipient of this award. She received it in 1999 and in 2001.

Dr. Aurora, who is board certified in neurology, is a practitioner with the Swedish Pain and Headache Center. She attended medical school at Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, India and did her residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.