sunday 23 sEpTEMbEr - ehmtic 2012

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EHMTIC20I2
European Headache and Migraine Trust International Congress
InvIted sPeaker BIograPHIes
contInued
Dalhousie University, the Achievement Award from the
Department of Medicine at Dalhousie in 2003, and
Excellence in Clinical Practice Award from Dalhousie
Medical School in 2004. Recently he received
the 2011 Chandler Award from the Department of
Medicine at Dalhousie for Lifetime Achievement in
Medical Education.
He co-authored the Canadian Guidelines for the
Management of Migraine in Clinical Practice, in the
CMAJ in 1997/1998. He is involved in clinical trial
research in migraine and has several papers and
publications. He is co-editor of Advanced Therapy
of Headache with the second edition in 2005 and
coauthor of Headache Pocket Clinician 2010 from
Cambridge University Press. He is the 2005 recipient
of the Arnold P. Friedman Distinguished Clinician
Research Award from the American Headache Society
for outstanding contribution to the field of headache,
and the 2007 Life Time Achievement Award from the
Headache Cooperative of New England. He has been
named one of the Best Doctors in Canada in 2008.
He was elected Secretary of the American Headache
Society in 2010 and elected a Fellow of the American
Headache Society in 2010. He is the current Treasurer
of the American Headache Society.
Dr Marcela Romero-Reyes DDS,
PhD
USA
Dr. Marcela Romero-Reyes is an
Assistant Professor and the Director
of the NYU Orofacial and Head Pain Program and the
Director of the Advanced Program for International
Dentists in Oral Medicine & Orofacial Pain.
She is the first recipient of the 2009 AHS/ Migraine
Research Foundation Thomas E. Heftler Migraine
Research Award.
Dr. Romero-Reyes is a graduate from the School
of Dentistry of the National University of Mexico
(UNAM). She obtained her PhD and Orofacial Pain
residency at UCLA and her postdoctoral training at the
UCLA Headache Research and Treatment Program.
Dr. Romero-Reyes interests are pain neuro-immuno
mechanisms and translational models for the study
of pain and headache.
Dr Nathalie Roussel
Belgium
Nathalie Roussel (PhD, MSc, PT) is
head of the division of Musculoskeletal
Physiotherapy at the University College
of Antwerp, Belgium and post-doctoral researcher
at the University of Antwerp and Vrije Universiteit
Brussel. Her research interests include evaluation and
treatment of patients with chronic musculoskeletal
disorders, such as chronic low back pain, chronic
whiplash associated disorders and chronic pelvic pain.
Her special interests goes to the relationship between
pain and movement. She has published in several peerreviewed
journals and was invited at many international
congresses.
Dr Guus Schoonman
Netherlands
Dr. Guus Schoonman is working at the neurology
department of the Leiden University Medical Centre. He
obtained his MD in 2000 and his PhD in 2008 for the
study of trigger factors in migraine. His main research
focus is the pathophysiology of migraine in relation
to the exposure of trigger factors. Since 2001 he has
served on the trainees and residents subcommittee
of the IHS and since 2010 he is chairman of the
education subcommittee and board member of the IHS.
Dr Till Sprenger
Switzerland
Dr. Sprenger trained as a Neurologist in
Munich/Germany. He has been involved
in headache and pain research since
2002 and completed a research fellowship in pain
management in Munich and later another research
fellowship in headache in San Francisco. He currently
holds a research professorship in Basel/Switzerland and
is Co-Director of the Neurological Outpatient Services
at the University Hospital in Basel. His research
interests include functional neuroimaging in headache
(fMRI and PET) as well as quantitative sensory testing
(QST) and human experimental models of primary
headache disorders.
Professor Christina Tassorelli
Italy
MD, PhD, Cristina Tassorelli is an
Aggregate Professor in Neurology at the
Department of Neurological Sciences
of the University of Pavia (I) and co-director of the
Headache Science Center of the “National Neurological
Institute C. Mondino” Foundation, Pavia (I).
She has studied several aspects of headache, spanning
from basic studies in animal models of pain to clinical
investigations for understanding pathophysiological