sunday 23 sEpTEMbEr - ehmtic 2012

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EHMTIC20I2
European Headache and Migraine Trust International Congress
InvIted sPeaker BIograPHIes
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Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Professor Jensen is the Director of The Danish
Headache Centre in Glostrup, which she co-founded
in 2001 together with Professor Jes Olesen. In 2010,
The Danish Headache Center was awarded with Global
Excellence in Health. Rigmor Højland Jensen is a
clinical Professor at the University of Copenhagen,
where she first trained in medicine and neurology.
Rigmor Højland Jensen is at present, President Elect
of the European Headache Federation, Director in
Lifting the Global Burden of Headache and EHMTIC
and has been the President of the Danish Headache
Society. Professor Jensen’s research interests include
epidemiology of headache, pathophysiology of tensiontype
headache, stroke, medication overuse headache,
and chronic pain, cluster headache, idiopathic
intracranial hypertension and CSF regulation.
Dr Kay Kennis
UK
Kay is a part-time salaried GP. She
qualified from Oxford and undertook
postgraduate training in medicine at
Plymouth where she obtained the MRCP, and then at
The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery,
London. She opted for a career in Primary Care and
was appointed to the GP rotation in Bradford where
she was awarded the MRCGP, DRCOG and DFFP. She
joined her current practice in Bradford in 2006.
In partnership with colleagues from the Neurology
Department at Bradford she established a Primary
Care headache service which she manages and which
receives referrals from the PCT and surrounding
NHS trusts. In 2010 she was appointed to the NICE
Guideline Development Group on Headache.
Dr Tobias Kurth
France
Dr. Kurth is a Director of Research
at the French National Institute of
Health and Medical Research (Inserm)
Unit 708 – Neuroepidemiology and the University
of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. He is an Adjunct
Associated Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard
School of Public Health and a member of the Board
of Trustees of the International Headache Society.
Dr. Kurth received his M.D. from the University of
Tübingen in Germany and a doctorate in epidemiology
from Harvard. His research on migraine focuses
on the interrelationships with vascular factors and
cardiovascular disease, genetic determinants, and
consequences on brain structure and function. Dr.
Kurth has published >200 research articles and book
chapters and he is Associate Editor of Cephalalgia and
Consulting Clinical Epidemiology Editor at the BMJ.
Professor Anne MacGregor
UK
Anne MacGregor is a specialist in
headaches and women’s health. She
is Honorary Professor, Centre for
Neuroscience & Trauma, Blizard Institute of Cell and
Molecular Science at Barts and the London School
of Medicine and Dentistry. In addition to her work in
headache, she works at Barts Sexual Health Centre,
St Bartholomew’s Hospital and is the CRQ convener
for the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.
Her research crosses the fields of neurology and
reproductive healthcare, with her MD thesis exploring
the role of oestrogen in migraine. She has published
over 150 research papers and book chapters, five
single author books, four co-authored books and two
co-edited books.
Prof Karl Messlinger
Germany
Dr med. Karl Messlinger is a Professor
of Physiology at the Institute of
Physiology & Pathophysiology of
the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He
graduated from the University of Würzburg in Biology
(1981) and Medicine (1985), received a doctoral
degree with a study on auditory brainstem responses
and spent his postdoctoral period in the distinguished
pain research group of Robert F. Schmidt.
In 1993 he received the Habilitation degree after
an extended scientific work about the structure and
function of nociceptive afferent endings in joint
tissues. Then he turned to neurohistological and
neurophysiological studies on meningeal nociception
in animals with the translational view on the generation
of headaches. The methods used in his laboratory
comprise immunohistochemistry, neuronal tracing,
neuropeptide measurements, extracellular recordings
from primary afferents and central neurons in vivo
and in vitro, blood flow measurements and functional
imaging.
Professor Messlinger was a research fellow at the
Dental School of the University of Toronto in 1990
and a researcher and visiting professor at the Research
Institute of Environmental Medicine at the University of
Nagoya, Japan, during several periods between 1995