IHS is receiving applications for the positions of Classification and Education Committee Chairs.

The Classification Chair will assume the role in September 2019. The Education Chair will Co-Chair the Committee with Professor Allan Purdy from September 2019.

For more information please see the attached documents.

The deadline for applications is 1 May 2019.

The Migraine Research Foundation (MRF) and the Association of Migraine Disorders (AMD) announce the opening of a joint Request for Proposals for migraine research grants. MRF is committed to discovering the causes of migraine disease and improving its treatments, and AMD has a particular interest in better understanding migraine variants. We are looking for projects that will help sufferers by advancing our ability to understand and treat migraine. As a result, we provide seed money grants for basic and clinical projects that will lead to better treatment and quality of life for sufferers of migraine disorders.

More information in the attachment!

Deadline for applications: 2 August 2019

* Application deadline approaching *

IHS is accepting research applications for scientific projects (any kind of research acceptable) that further the mission and goals of the Society.

Funding up to € 150,000 will be allocated to support between one and three research projects.

Preference will be given to projects that involve collaborations amongst investigators from multiple institutions and countries.

See the document below for more information.

Deadline for applications: 30 April 2019

Guidelines for controlled trials of preventive treatment of migraine in children and adolescents, 1st edition, is now published in Cephalalgia and freely available

The 3rd headache conference of the Middle EASt and North Africa (MENA) region was held in October 2018 in Cairo, Egypt. The conference was also named the second African headache conference and the first Egyptian Headache conference, to encourage local and regional events in the headache field. The conference was under the auspices of the International Headache Society. Professor Ramez Reda Moustafa reports,

Headache Update 2018 was held in Mumbai in December 2018 with the aim to update Indian headache specialists and neurologists on the recent advances in headache medicine. Faculty included key international headache specialists and IHS leaders. Dr K.Ravishankar was the Course Director and reports on the meeting.

The IHS Guidelines for controlled trials of acute treatment of migraine attacks in adults, 4th edition is now published in Cephalagia - online first doi.org/10.1177/0333102419828967

See the publication and all IHS Guidelines and the ICHD in the Guidelines section of the website

A collaborative group of clinicians and researchers from the IWK Health Centre and Dalhousie University are testing two free online programs designed to help individuals better understand and cope with headaches! They are seeking participants with headaches or migraines, who are 14 to 40 years of age, and who have a smartphone. Participants can take part from home or on the go, they are recruiting worldwide, and participants will be compensated for time and effort in the study. Please visit https://mywhi.ca for more information and share this information with your young patients.

It is with great sadness I inform you Jim Lance passed away peacefully on 20 February 2019 surrounded by his family. His contribution to headache medicine in particular is a legacy of his great life, experienced to the full. The Western Health- University of Melbourne- Latrobe University Annual Lance Goadsby Symposium and Oration named in his honour since 2018 ( http://www.westernhealth.org.au/AboutUs/News/Pages/Migraine_Annual_Symposium_2018.aspx) will continue to remind us of his great joy encouraging young people into research and headache medicine .
Professor James Waldo (Jim) Lance was born in Wollongong in 1926. He completed his medical degree at the University of Sydney in 1950 and began his clinical work as a resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (1950-51). Cutting his residency short, Professor Lance took up a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) fellowship at the University of Sydney (1952-53) to work towards his Doctor of Medicine (MD, awarded 1955). In 1954 he travelled to London, England to train as a neurologist and accepted a position as assistant house physician at the National Hospital in Queen Square. Upon his return to Australia Professor Lance combined teaching and clinical practice with appointments as tutor at St Paul’s College (1956-60), visiting lecturer at the University of Sydney (1956-62), superintendent at the Northcott Neurological Centre (1956-57) and honorary assistant physician at Sydney Hospital (1956-61) and St Luke’s Hospital (1957-61).
In 1960 Professor Lance once again left Australia to follow his passion for research work at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He returned to Australia as the founder of the Department of Neurology in the newly established medical school at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He remained at UNSW throughout his professional career starting as senior lecturer (1961-63), then Associate Professor (1964-74), Professor of Neurology – Personal Chair (1975-92) and most recently as Emeritus Professor. Concurrent with his research, Professor Lance continued his clinical practice at the Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals where he was Chairman of the Department of Neurology (1961-92) and foundation Director of the Institute of Neurological Sciences (INS, 1990-91)
He was former President of the Australian Association of Neurologists and the International Headache Society (1987-1989), and in 2015 was awarded an IHS Special Recognition Award.
His funeral will be held at St Michaels Church Vaucluse on Monday 25 February at 2.00pm
Professor Tissa Wijeratne
Course Director
Annual Lance-Goadsby Symposium and Oration

The Spanish translation of the ICHD-3 is now available in the Guidelines section of the website.

Headache Update 2018 was held in Mumbai, India, in December.

The Objective of the Meeting was to cover the recent advances in ‘Headache Medicine’. The event was largely case-based and included a special session on ‘Controversies in Headache’. Local and international faculty including IHS present and past leaders presented a variety of topics to the 300 attending delegates.

Dr Ravishankar's report including photos from the meeting can be found below.

The 4th Annual International Headache Symposium in Israel will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel, on 9 January 2019

The symposium will run under the auspices of IHS - for more information see the IHSI website