Societal Impact of Headache

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Timothy Steiner is Professor of Medicine (Headache and Global Public Health) in the Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, and Honorary Consultant Physician (headache medicine) at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK. An academic physician, he has worked in headache medicine for over 35 years and is a past-President of the European Headache Federation and past-General Secretary of the International Headache Society. Pursuing his principal research interests in public-health aspects of headache, and working with the World Health Organization, he is the architect and Director of the Global Campaign against Headache.Lars Jacob Stovner has been professor of Neurology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) since 1995, leader of the Norwegian Headache Society from 1996-1999, head of the department of Neurology at Trondheim University Hospital from 1999-2001, head of the Norwegian AdvisoryUnit on Headaches from it was established in 2000, deputy leader of the Department of Neuroscience (from 2017 Department of Neromedicine and Movement Science) at NTNU 2007-2009, and leader of the department from 2009 till 2016. He has been a director of the charitable non-governmental organization Lifting The Burden which has official relations to the World Health Organisation. From 2007 till 2014 he was co-editor of The Journal of Headache and Pain, which is the official journal of the European Headache Federation.

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