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Learning & Teaching Headache!
I joined the IHS in 1991 to attend the Congress in Washington. That was a time of great excitement in headache medicine, with the advent of the triptan class for the treatment of migraine. Since 1978 I had been practising as a neurologist and seeing numerous patients with headache and migraine disorders. This new therapy and those that followed significantly changed the way we think about the neurobiology and treatment of migraine, in particular.
My main interest in IHS over the years has been in teaching and education; I have been trying to help IHS create and foster better medical education around migraine related disorders. I have been able to attend the congresses over that time and many times contributed to the clinical teaching courses. My major interest has been in case-based learning, recognizing that physicians learn best in the context of cases, allowing them to understand the evidence upon which medical therapy is predicated. I have been on the IHS Education Committee for several years, and currently I am a Trustee of the Society, in my second term. I've been involved in online case learning, as well as the recent development of the Master School for headache education in Brazil. Next year I will be involved in development of the second Master School in Japan. Finally, I am an Associate Editor of Cephalalgia, and weekly see many clinical case reports for potential publication.
So if you're interested in headache medicine in our organization then get involved, meet many interesting people around the world, and learn more about headache and migraine to help your patients.
R Allan Purdy
Division of Neurology, Dalhousie University/QEII
Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Canada.
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Headache in Asia
I have been honoured to be one of the members of the IHS Board of Trustees since 2011. Let me tell a story about headache clinical practice, research and myself. After graduation from medical university I started my clinical career as a neurologist, as well as a researcher on headache. My interest has been the innervation of the cerebral and dural vessels, particularly on the parasympathetic and trigeminal innervation. My tutors in the research and clinical fields have been Dr Michael A. Moskowitz at Harvard Medical School and Dr Fumihiko Sakai at Kitasato University. These two teachers gave me a lot of knowledge and spirits for the research and taking care of patients suffering from severe headache pain.
The activity of research for headache in clinical or basic science in Asia has grown enormously over the past 10 years. Several countries such as China, India, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, and Taiwan have established Headache Societies with great activities and they founded the Asian Linguistic group of IHS. In 2010 they established the ‘Asian Regional Congress for Headache (ARCH)'. Since then, ARCH has been held in Japan 2010, in China 2011, and will be held in Taiwan this year. I aim to continue such activities for headache research in Asia and inform more people of the work of IHS. In light of this, I would like to mention the ‘Headache Master School 2013', which will be held in March 2013 in Tokyo. This is the second IHS Master School, which is one of the most important educational activities of IHS. I look forward to getting together many clinicians who are interested in learning or brushing up their skills in headache diagnosis and treatment, not only from Asia, but from all over the world.
Norihiro Suzuki
Department of Neurology, Keio University School of
Medicine, Japan.
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