Annika Ehrlich

Annika Ehrlich is a nurse practitioner who cares for patients with headache disorders. With a special interest in holistic care, she strives to provide patient-specific options in addition to medications, including lifestyle modifications, guidance on mindfulness and meditation, exercise plans, strategies for establishing healthy eating habits, aromatherapy, light therapy and cold therapy.

In her research, Ehrlich studies treatments for migraine and other types of headaches. She specifically investigates inpatient infusions (drugs administered intravenously in the hospital over several days) for difficult-to-treat headache patterns.

Ehrlich earned her doctorate in nursing practice at UCSF. She is certified in neuroscience nursing and earned a certification in headache medicine from the National Headache Foundation.

Ehrlich enjoys teaching nurse practitioner students, neurology residents and neurology fellows, and is a volunteer assistant clinical professor in the UCSF Department of Family Health Care Nursing. She serves on the boards of several headache organizations. A champion for her patients, she has helped organize Headache on the Hill, an annual event of the Alliance for Headache Disorders Advocacy in Washington, DC that brings together patients, health care providers and policymakers to raise awareness of these conditions and increase funding for treatment and research.