Dr. Burish received his MD PhD from Vanderbilt University. He completed his neurology residency at the University of California at San Francisco.  He completed his fellowship in interventional pain management in the department of Anesthesiology at UCSF, and later obtained headache certification as an attending through the UCNS practice track.  Dr. Burish’ cluster headache research surrounds epidemiology as well as basic science circadian mechanisms.