The 6th Annual International Headache Symposium in Israel

July 6, 2022

The 6th Annual International Headache Symposium in Israel will be held at Daniel Hotel, Herzliya (8 miles from Tel Aviv), on October 27, 2022. THe symposium is organized by the President of the Israeli Headache Association, Dr. Oved Daniel and by Dr. Arieh Kuritzky.

I am honored to have been invited to speak alongside the President of the International Headache Society Dr. Messoud Ashina, Dr. Rami Burstein of the Harvard Medical School, and other leading headache experts. The topic of my presentation will be “What to do when nothing works”. Other topics to be discussed include, Molecular signaling pathway in migraine: update, (Messoud Ashina), Connecting the line between dizziness, occipital headache, muscle tenderness and the cerebellum (Sait Ashina), Open-label studies: do they have any value? (Cristina Tassorelli), and others.

You can see the full program and registration information on this website.

Written by
Alexander Mauskop, MD
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