But for the most part, this is really a disease that primary care can embrace and do an excellent job.

This is not one that should be an automatic referral to neurology.

Welcome to the Curve Siders, an internal medicine podcast where we deconstruct topics in medicine to provide you the listener with clinical pearls and practice changing knowledge.

I'm Dr. Matthew Wato, here with my co-host, Dr. Tony Sideri and Dr. Stewart Brigham.

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On this episode of the Curve Siders, we speak with Dr. Glenn D. Solomon, professor and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Wright State University.

He also serves as the professor and interim chair of neurology at Wright State University since 2013.

Having published more than 100 articles on the topic of headache medicine, Dr. Solomon is a renowned expert known for his expertise in headache medicine and has been a pioneer in this field.

He has served as a director of the headache medicine clinic and fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic.

Notwithstanding, he is board certified in both internal medicine and headache medicine.

He has a graduate of Rush University and the Wright Patterson Internal Medicine Residency.

On the personal level, he has been a mentor of mine and I am proud to have served under him as a resident.

Dr. Solomon, it is a pleasure and an honor to speak with you today.

Thank you so much for coming in to talk with us.

Thanks for having me. It's my pleasure to be here.

So, how did you end up getting to where you are now?

To be honest, I've been very blessed and I've worked very hard to get where I am today.

I did my residency in the Air Force. I was at Wright Patterson Air Force Base when the program was in its infancy.

I was actually six months into when they created the residency.

I was off cycle and joined the residency program.

And towards the end of my internship, I had the opportunity to do a neurology rotation and see a number of young people who have strokes.

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