Continuing its education outreach, IHS funded Visiting Professors to present at meetings in Kyrgyzstan and Iran in autumn 2019.

Visiting Professors is an IHS education initiative which has been running since 2012 with the aim to send headache specialists as representatives of IHS to attend regional meetings, or teach at a headache centre, in countries that might need or want increased headache education and motivation and where, without financial support, attendance of an international specialist would not be possible.

The local organisers of the meetings report.

The IHS 2019 Headache Trainee was Khatia Gvantseladze from Tbilisi, Georgia, who spent almost 3 months with Messoud Ashina and the team at the Danish Headache Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark. During her stay she also attended the IHC in Dublin, Ireland, in September.

Khatia's report is attached

The Headache Trainee programme encourage physicians from countries listed as World Bank Low-, Lower-Middle- and Upper-Middle-Income countries to visit a specialised headache institution abroad and actively increase knowledge on headache disorders and specialised headache management. It is also intended to spread this knowledge to their home countries without headache infrastructure or expertise. After a clinical training period of up to 12 weeks at a headache centre abroad the award holder is encouraged to return to his/her country of origin in order to apply the acquired knowledge, thus contributing to the advance of patient management locally. Within a supporting phase of 12 weeks the fellow is afterwards asked to present or discuss cases from their home c

Following many months of planning, the Latin America Master School Class took place in October 2019 in Bogota, Colombia. There were over 100 young participants. Four international faculty members joined 9 Latin American headache experts to teach over 3 days.

Course organiser Dr Michel Volcy reports on the event

Short-stay scholarships, Headache Trainee programme, and Visiting Professor grants now available for 2020.

Importantly, for the Short-stay Scholarships and Trainee programme we have extended the eligibile countries and now base this on the World Bank listing of Lower, Lower-middle and Upper-middle countries.

For more information see the Awards section of the website.

A selection of posters presented during IHC in September are now uploaded in the IHS Poster Library.

If you would like your poster to be included please email to Carol Taylor

Application is now open for the 3rd Master in Headache Disorders (MHD) at the University of Copenhagen. This is a 2-year part time program on all headache disorders following which you will receive an Academic Master Degree.

In MHD1 from 2016-2018 17 Masters graduated with excellence and at present 23 MHD2 students will graduate in June 2020. They come from 17 different countries from The Philippines, Pakistan, Iran, Europe and USA. The students background qualifications in MHD2 are a great interest and experience in clinical management of pain and headache. The group consists of 16 neurologists, 1 GP, 4 nurses, 1 physiotherapist and 1 osteopath.

In a world with limited resources education is the key, especially within the headache field, where there is a significant unmet need for academic education.

For more information please click HERE

Three young clinicians and researchers, two from India one from Serbia, attended iHEAD, IHC and then spent up to 6 weeks in headache centres in Dublin. Read about their experiences below.

If you are a young doctor from a developing country, and would like to apply for the 2020 Short-stay scholar programme, please visit the IHS website later in the year when the application process will open. Or join IHS today as an Associate Member to make sure you receive notification!

The IHC 2019 late-breaking abstracts are now published in Cephalagia and available on the IHS website in the Congress section

We are pleased to publish translations of the ICHD-3 in Bulgarian and Romanian - click here to visit the ICHD-3 section of the website.

ICHD-3 is also available in Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.

Thanks to the dedicated work of members of the local Affiliate Member Societies who undertake this task on behalf of IHS.

Juniors Headache Science Excellence Tournament

Basic science: Zachariah Bertels - Differential effects of mu and delta opioid receptor agonists in models of chronic migraine-associated pain and aura

Clinical: Mohammad A.-M. Al-Karagholi - Opening of ATP sensitive potassium channels causes migraine attacks: a new target for the treatment of migraine

Posters

Best poster (selected by the Juniors Group): James Mitchell - Detailed intra-cranial pressure monitoring in idiopathic intracranial hypertension probes diurnal and postural variability,

Best poster (selected by the Delegates): Hashmat Ghanizada - PACAP27 induces migraine-like attacks in migraine patients,

Other top posters

Raeburn Forbes - What proportion of anti-CGRP antibody therapy for migraine is contextual (placebo) effect?

Ditte Zhang - Blood glucose levels increase during spontaneous attacks of migraine with and without aura

Lawrence Robbins - CGRP monoclonal antibodies: first year results, controversies, and management Issues

The Pakistan Neurology Awareness & Research Foundation (NARF) organised countrywide activities to mark the 5th Annual World Brain Day on migraine. Abdul Malik reports.