Frederick Gerald Freitag

Background

Freitag, Frederick Gerald was born on February 12, 1952 in Milwaukee. Son of Frederick August and Shirley June (Siewert) Freitag.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1974; Doctor of Osteopathy, Chicago College Osteopathic Medicine, 1979.

Career

Intern, Brentwood Hospital, Warrensville Heights, Ohio., 1979-1980; resident in family practice, Brentwood Hospital, Warrensville Heights, Ohio., 1980-1981; director, physician, Twinsburg (Ohio) Family Clinic, 1981-1983; associate professor family medicine, College Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio U., Warrensville Heights, 1982-1983; staff, Diamond Headache Clinic, Chicago, 1983-1986; associate director, Diamond Headache Clinic, Chicago, since 1986; attending staff member, Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 1983-1993; attending staff, Columbus Hospital, since 1993. Member Janssen Research Council. Secretary Diamond Headache Research and Education Foundation.

Visiting lecturer department family medicine Chicago College Osteopathic Medicine, since 1985. Clinical associate department medicine Pritzker School Medicine University of Chicago, 1989-1993. Member editorial board Headache Quarterly, since 1991.

Chairman institutional review board Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital, 1991-1993. Member Evidence Based Headache Outcomes Research Group. Member migraine advisory county Abbott, since 1995, member primary care advisory county, since 1997.

Member of advisory group Glaxo Wellcome, since 1996. Member migraine advisory county Zeneca, since 1996. American Osteopathic Association representative to National Consortium on Studies of Care of Migraine, since 1998.

Member National Consortium for Studies of Care for Migraine, since 1998.

Achievements

• Frederick Gerald Freitag has been listed as a noteworthy Osteopathic physician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board of directors National Headache Foundation, liaison standards of care commission to Am.Acad. Neurology. Fellow American Association for Study of Headache. Member American Medical Association, American College General Practioners in Osteopathic Medicine, American Osteopathic Association, American Society Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (vice chairman headache section 1995-1996), Illinois Assn.Osteo.

Physicians and Surgeons, Illinois Medical Society, International Association Study Pain, American Pain Society, National Headache Foundation, Chicago Medical Society (speakers bureau), German Wine Society (past president Chicago chapter), University of Wisconsin Alumni Association.

Interests

• Avocations: German oenophile, gardening, model railroading, home carpentry.

Connections

Married Lynn Nadene Stegner, September 10, 1977. Children: Crescentia Adella, Abigail Amadea, Genevieve Angelica.

Father:

Frederick August Freitag

Mother:

Shirley June (Siewert) Freitag

Spouse:

Lynn Nadene Stegner

child:

Abigail Amadea Freitag

child:

Crescentia Adella Freitag

child:

Genevieve Angelica Freitag