Messoud Ashina

Professor Messoud Ashina is Professor of Neurology and Director of the Human Migraine Research Unit at the Department of Neurology & Danish Headache Center, Rigshospitalet Glostrup, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently President of the International Headache Society (2019–present) and is past General Secretary of the European Headache Federation. Prof. Ashina is a Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology. In addition, he is an Associate Editor of Cephalalgia and an Associate Editor of The Journal of Headache and Pain. Prof. Ashina’s research interests include the pathophysiology of migraine and mechanisms of action of antimigraine medications, as well as experimental migraine models, functional neuroimaging, and novel antimigraine drug targets. He has authored over 500 papers, abstracts and book chapters on the topic of headache, including migraine and cluster headache. Having obtained his MD from the Azerbaijan Medical University, Prof. Ashina went on to compl