Professor Rami Burstein, PhD is the John Hedley-Whyte Professor of Anaesthesia and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, and Vice Chairman of Neuroscience in the Department of Anaesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Professor Burstein is the President-Elect of the International Headache Society. Previously, he was a member of the Board of Directors of both the American and International Headache Societies. Throughout the years, Professor Burstein has received numerous awards. These include the prestigious Javits Neuroscience Merit Award (NIH), the Harold Wolff Awards in 2003 and 2005 (AHS), the Cephalalgia Awards in 2013 and 2015 (IHS), the 2010 Alan Edwards Research on Pain Award (McGill), and the 2022 John J. Bonica Lectureship Award. Among his accomplishments are the discoveries of the spinohypothalamic tract, roles of peripheral and central sensitisation in migraine pathophysiology, mechanisms of action of several anti-migraine drugs, neurobiology of photophobia and, most recently, glymphatic system role in migraine.

Peter Goadsby FRS is Director, NIHR King’s Clinical Research Facility, Professor of Neurology, King’s College London, an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at King’s College Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond St, London, UK; and a National Institute for Health and Social Care Research Senior Investigator. He is Professor emeritus of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles. His major research interests are in the basic mechanisms of primary headache disorders, such as migraine and cluster headache, in both experimental and clinical settings, and translating these insights into better management.