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Mark Sollars

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EDUCATION

M.S. 2010, Psychological Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.

M.S. 2002, Rehabilitation Counseling, Montana State University, Billings, Montana.

B.S. 1994, Business Administration, Montana State University, Billings, Montana.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York,

April 2011-present.

Writer/Editor/Research Coordinator - Neurology Department, Headache Center

Copyedit and proofread manuscripts, abstracts, slide decks, and clinical study documents

to ensure correct grammar, punctuation, and consistency of style

Coordinate the initiation and implementation of research projects

Co-author book chapters, research articles, and scientific abstracts

Ensure that comments and edits from multiple authors are accurately incorporated into

manuscripts and technical documents

Ensure successful manuscript development by coordinating among numerous authors,

statisticians, and other contributors

Obtain permissions for use of published materials (e.g., tables, graphs, etc.)

Fact-check manuscripts for accuracy

Write article summaries

Create reference sections and annotations

Involved with the following studies:

American Migraine Prevalence & Prevention Study

Sponsor: National Headache Foundation

Identifying the Factors Underlying Discontinuation of Triptans

Sponsor: American Headache Society

Noninvasive Neurostimulation of the Vagus Nerve with the GammaCore Device for the

Relief of Symptoms Associated with Migraine

Sponsor: ElectroCore, LLC

An Open-Label, Multicenter Study of the Long-Term Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of

BOTOX (onabotulinumtoxinA) for the Prohylaxis of Headaches in Adult Patients with

Chronic Migraine

Sponsor: Allergan

Nocturnal Migraine and Sleep: Patient Questionnaire and Recruitment Study

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Sponsor: Novartis

Nerve Block Database Registry Study

Sponsor: American Headache Society

Noninvasive Neurostimulation of the Vagus Nerve with the GammaCore Device for the

Prevention of Chronic Migraine

Sponsor: ElectroCore, LLC

Noninvasive Neurostimulation of the Vagus Nerve with the GammaCore Device for the

Acute Treatment of Cluster Headache

Sponsor: ElectroCore, LLC

OPTIMISE Study: Occipital Nerve Stimulation for Migraine

Sponsor: Boston Scientific

Efficacy and Safety of Acetaminophen and Aspirin Versus Placebo in the Acute

Treatment of Migraine

Sponsor: Novartis

University of Oregon-Center on Teaching & Learning, Portland, OR, Oct. 2010-Feb. 2011.

Data Collector

Montana State University-Psychology Department, Bozeman, MT, January 2009-August 2010.

Manager-Persuasion and Affect Laboratory

University of Montana-Psychology Department, Missoula, MT, 2008, Spring

Undergraduate Research Assistant-Political Cognition Laboratory

PUBLICATIONS

Buse, D.C., Sollars, C.M., Steiner, T.J., Jensen, R.H., Al Jumah, M.A., & Lipton, R.B.

Why HURT? A Review of Clinical Instruments for Headache Management. Current Pain and

Headache Reports 16:237-254, June 2012.

Andrasik, F., Sollars, C.M., Walch, S.E., & Buse, D.C. Headaches. In A.M. Nezu,

C.M. Nezu, & P.A. Geller (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology, Volume 9: Health Psychology

(2nd ed.) 247-270, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2013.

Buse, D.C., Andrasik, F., & Sollars, C.M. (in press). Headaches. In Andrasik, F., Goodie, J.,

Peterson, A. (Eds.), Biopsychosocial Assessment in Clinical Health Psychology: A Handbook

New York: NY Guilford Press.

Mullin, K., Buse, D.C., Sollars, C.M., Lipton, R.B. Epidemiology of the psychiatric

comorbidities of headache. In Green, M. & Muskin, P. (Eds.), The Neuropsychiatry of

Headache, 1-8, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Lipton, R.B., Sollars, C.M., & Buse, D.C. Epidemiology, progression, prognosis, and

comorbidity of migraine. In Robbins, M.S., Grosberg, B.M. & Lipton, R.B. (Eds.), Neurology

In Practice: Headache, 64-88, London: Wiley Blackwell, 2013.

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Schwartz, D.P., Sollars, C.M., & Grosberg, B.M. Epidemiology of headaches. Principles and

Practice of Pain Medicine, New York, New York: McGraw-Hill Education (in press).

Grosberg, B.M., Sollars, C.M. Retinal migraine. Headache Syndromes, Oxford: Oxford

University Press (in press).

POSTERS/ABSTRACTS

Lipton, R.B., Buse, D.C., Serrano, D., Sollars, C.M., Pavlovic, J.M., Grosberg, B.M., Reed,

M.L. Defining the Border-Zone Between Episodic Migraine and Chronic Migraine:

Sociodemographics and Headache-Related Disability in the US Population. Presented at the

American Academy of Neurology Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 16-23, 2013.

Buse, D.C., Serrano, D., Reed, M.L., Pavlovic, J.M., Sollars, C.M., Issa, S.I., Lipton, R.B.

Defining the Border-Zone Between Episodic Migraine and Chronic Migraine: Psychiatric

Comorbidities and Chronic Pain in the US Population. Presented at the American Academy

of Neurology Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 16-23, 2013.

Serrano, D., Buse, D.C., Reed, M.L., Pavlovic, J.M., Vollbracht, S.E., Sollars, C.M., Lipton,

R.B. Defining the Border-Zone Between Episodic Migraine and Chronic Migraine: Medical

Comorbidities in the US Population. Presented at the American Academy of Neurology

Meeting, San Diego, CA, March 16-23, 2013.

Nicholson, R.A., Buse, D.C., Andrasik, F., Sollars, C.M., & Lipton, R.B. Knowledge, Attitudes,

and Beliefs about Behavioral Treatments for Migraine: A Survey of AHS members. Poster

presented at the 54th annual scientific meeting of the American Headache Society, Los

Angeles, CA, 2012.

Handley, I. M, Sollars, C. M., Rasinski, H. M., Fowler, S. L., Geers, A. L., & Helfer, S. G. (Feb.

2011). Bias-Correction against Provided Expectations can Reverse Placebo Effects.

Poster presented at the 12th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social

Psychology, San Antonio, TX.

Sollars, C. M., Handley, I. M., Rasinski, H. M., Fowler, S. L., Geers, A. L. & Helfer, S. G. (June

2010). Beliefs about the Influence of Expectations can Eliminate Analgesic Placebo

Effects. Poster presented at the 3rd biennial National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical

Research Excellence, Bethesda, Maryland.

Handley, I. M., Runnion, B. M., Sollars, C. M., Cichosz, L., & Twamley, J. (Feb. 2010).

Evidence that Unconscious Thinking Influences Persuasion Based on Argument Quality.

Poster presented at the 11th annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social

Psychology, Las Vegas, NV.

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PRESENTATIONS

Psychology Department, Montana State University, Departmental Brown Bag, The Effect of

Action and Inaction Goals on the Use of Cognitive Heuristics, Nov., 2009.

Psychology Department, Montana State University, Departmental Brown Bag, Establishing the

Effects of Positive-Emotion Maintenance Goals, March, 2009.

Psychology Department, Montana State University, Psychology of Prejudice (415) Guest-

Lecturer, Stereotype Activation, Spring, 2009.

Psychology Department, Montana State University, Social Cognition (463) Guest-Lecturer,

Attribution Theory, Spring, 2010.

AWARDS

Outstanding Second Year Graduate Student Award, Psychology Department, Montana

State University, Spring 2010.

Award for Travel, Montana State University (Summer, 2010; $700.00). Funding to attend the

2010 conference of the National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence.

Award for Travel, Montana State University (Spring 2010; $700.00). Funding to attend the 2010

conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

REFERENCES

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