B. Lee Peterlin, DO, FAHS
Founder & Medical Director
Dr. Lee Peterlin is a headache fellowship trained, board-certified neurologist who specializes in headache medicine and is headache medicine certified by the United Council of Neurological Subspecialties (UCNS). She has been dedicated to treating those with headache disorders and advancing headache research since 2004 and is committed to providing each patient with unparalleled level of care, offering diagnostic and treatment services that are focused on the individual patient for the best possible outcomes.
Dr. Peterlin received her medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed a neurology residency at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and a fellowship in headache medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She is a United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS) certified headache specialist.
Prior to founding the Pennsylvania Headache Center in 2021, Dr. Peterlin was the Director of the Headache Center at Penn-Medicine Lancaster General Health (2017-2021) and the Director of Headache Research at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010-2017) where she conducted National Institute of Health, pharmaceutical, and foundation-funded headache research, in addition to seeing patients. She has published over 95 articles in the scientific literature, authored several book chapters, and co-edited a handbook on migraine. She received the National Headache Foundation lectureship award for her work on the relationship between migraine and obesity, and is on the editorial board for the journal Headache.
Dr. Peterlin has lectured at multiple international and national medical conferences on topics related to headache. Additionally, she has been interviewed for articles in several magazines including Cosmopolitan, Prevention, Shape, Weight Watchers, Reader's Digest, and Women's Day, as well as for multiple television, radio and online medical and news outlets.
When Dr. Peterlin is not treating patients or doing educational talks on headache disorders, she enjoys the outdoors. Dr. Peterlin believes in balance and finds her own by gardening, exercising, and surrounding herself by friends and loved ones.
“I’ve been a migraine sufferer for 25 years and patient of Dr. Peterlin’s for five years. After seeing a number of medical specialists over the years who didn’t really offer solutions, I really appreciate how special Dr. Peterlin is. She takes the time to listen, she offers good advice, and she’s very knowledgeable about a wide variety of treatment options. She has been right beside me on my journey to find relief. I used to have headaches more days than not in any given month before I started seeing Dr. Peterlin. Now I have months when I have no headaches, and on the months when I do have a headache, I know how to treat them.”
- Barbara Z.