The potential for mindfulness to benefit migraine sufferers is the theme of the annual Lawrence and Nancy Golden Lectureship in Mind Body Medicine on Sept. 28 at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB.

Free and open to the public, it is the 21st annual Golden Lecture, an annual talk geared to medical students and the wider community that focuses on mind-body-spirit connections. Lawrence Golden was a successful cardiologist who, with his wife, Nancy, a family therapist, established the lectureship in order to enrich the education of future doctors.

Guest speaker Rebecca Erwin Wells, professor of neurology at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, will discuss “Does Mindfulness Help Migraine? My Journey to Understanding this Question” at noon in Room 2120 A & B in the Jacobs School.

Wells sees patients at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, where she founded and directs the Comprehensive Headache Program. A graduate of East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, she did her neurology residency at the University of Virginia.

She obtained her master’s in public health from Harvard, where she also completed fellowships in integrative medicine and headache medicine.