Collaborators

Governing Board

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Dr. Rami Burstein, Co-Founder 

  • John Hedley-Whyte, Professor of Anesthesia and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School
  • Vice Chairman of Neuroscience in the Department of Anesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • President of the International Headache Society
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Mr. Russ Richards, Co-Founder

  • Principal Consultant at Torii Gate Ventures
  • Co-chair of Duke University's Annual Fund Advisory Board
  • Chair of Northern Shield Resources Inc. (TSXV: NRN)
  • President of The Lovett School's Alumni Executive Board
  • Emeritus-chair of Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Board
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Mr. Will Keller

  • SVP Nigeria Country Operations, Chemonics
  • Previously CFO and Corporate Secretary of Chemonics
  • CPA who has held several finance and management positions delivering aid and resources to developing host countries

Medical Board

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Dr. Aynur Ozge (Turkey)

  • Professor of Neurology, Algology, and Clinical Neurophysiology, Mersin University School of Medicine, Mersin, Turkey
  • Board Member of International Headache Society
  • Leader of the headache chapter in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa (MENA) organization
  • President of Global Migraine and Pain Summit
  • President of Alzheimer Society Mersin Branch and Dementia Special Care Center, Mersin, Turkey
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Dr. Cory Macalintal (The Philippines)

  • Head, Headache Clinic Asian Brain Institute Asian Hospital & Medical Center Muntinlupa City, Philippines
  • Head, Outreach program Department of Neuroscience Asian Hospital & Medical Center Muntinlupa City, Philippines
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Mr. Edwin Wara (Kenya)

  • Clinical Officer, Addis Clinic
  • Registered Anesthetist
  • HIV/AIDS Program Manager
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Dr. Maria Karina Velez Jimenez (Mexico)

  • Board Member of the International Headache Society
  • Founding President of the Mexican Association of Headache and Migraine (AMCEMIG)
  • Founding coordinator of the headache group of the Mexican Academy of Neurology
  • Treasurer and Secretary of the Mexican Academy of Neurology and Secretary of the Latin American Headache Society
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Dr. Mario F. P. Perez (Brazil)

  • Founder of the São Paulo Headache Center and Program Director of the Headache Medicine training for the Neurology Residency Program at Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Senior Researcher and Professor of Postgraduation at Albert Einstein Hospital and at Psychiatry Institute, São Paulo State University Medical School
  • The President-Elect of the International Headache Society.
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Dr. Messoud Ashina (Denmark)

  • Professor of Neurology and Director of the Human Migraine Research Unit at the Department of Neurology & Danish Headache Center, Rigshospitalet, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Past President of the International Headache Society / Past General Secretary of the European Headache Federation
  • Associate Editor of Cephalalgia, The Journal of Headache and Pain, and Brain
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Dr. Paul Hart (Canada)

  • Retired Family Physician

  • Participated in numerous medical missions supporting physicians, clinical officers and nurses in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and  Ethiopia, teaching medical students in Cambodia, treating civil wars refugees in Africa, adults and children in the Amazon, girls in monasteries in Nepal, typhoon victims in the Philippines, and most recently, victims of civil wars in the Middle East, Africa and Afghanistan at the Moria Refugee Camp in Greece.

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Dr. Rami Burstein (USA)

  • Co-founder of Global Migraine Aid, Inc.
  • John Hedley-Whyte, Professor of Anesthesia and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School
  • Vice Chairman of Neuroscience in the Department of Anesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • President of the International Headache Society
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Dr. Shuu-Jiun Wang (Taiwan)

  • Director, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Vice Dean, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Chair Professor and Director, Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University School
  • Chair of the Asian Regional Consortium of Headache, Past-President of the Taiwan Neurological Society, Founding President of the Taiwan Headache Society

Advisory Board

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Mr. Daniel Schwartz

  • CEO of Dynamica
  • Co-Chair of the Atria Health Collaborative
  • Founding Board Member, The Commons Project
  • Member of Council of Foreign Relations & International Institute of Strategic Studies, and Director of The Chief Executives Organization
  • Former Board Chair, GAVI Campaign
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Dr. Ken Stein

  • Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at the Atria Academy of Science & Medicine
  • Co-Founder of Crutches 4 Kids
  • Co-Founder and Chairman of the International Concussion Society
  • Founder and Chairman of the Cortex Group, LLC
  • Board of Advisors, Hospital for Special Surgery