MD & PhD in Medicine from the University of Barcelona, specialist in Neurology from the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona.
- Head of Section of the Neurology Department, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital
- Director of the Migraine Adaptive Brain Center, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital
- Group Leader of the Headache and Neurological Pain Research Laboratory at the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR)
- Coordinator of the eCORE “Brain, Mind & Behaviour”, VHIR
- Vicepresident of the Internal Scientific Committee, VHIR
- Associate Professor at Department of Medicine, University of Vic
- Associate Clinical Professor at Department of Medicine, University Autonoma of Barcelona
- Honorary Secretary of the International Headache Society
- Co-Chair of the Headache Pannel European Academy of Neurology (EAN)
Past member of the European Headache Federation Council, past Coordinator of the Spanish Headache Study Group of the Spanish Neurological Society (cefaleas.sen.es).
Belongs to the IHS (International Headache Society), the AHS (American Headache Society), the International Headache Genetics Consortium (IHGC) and the Headache Study Group of the Spanish Neurological Society (SEN) and Catalan Neurological Society (SCN).
Specialized in the field of headache in the United States and in London in the clinic and laboratories of Professor Silberstein (Thomas Jefferson University) and Professor Goadsby (University of California at San Francisco and University College London), with the help of the Scholarships of “la Caixa Foundation”, AHS (American Headache Society), EFNS (European Federation Neurological Societies), Rio Hortega, GECSEN (Headache Study Group of the Spanish Neurological Society).
Editor
Associate Editor of Cephalalgia and Neurologia.
Former Editor of Headache, The Journal of Headache and Pain, Frontiers in Neurology (Headache Medicine). Editor for Headache for Revista de Neurologia
Publications
- 230 papers with h-index of 45
- 30 book chapters
- 1 book
- 9 Guidelines of Spanish Neurological Society and Catalan Neurological Society
Awards
- “Scientfic Prize for Headache Research” from the Spanish Neurological Society for the years 2019 and 2023
- «Cephalalgia Award» 2021-2023
- “Social Prize for Headache” in 2020 for the website she founded midolordecabeza.org
- “Artur I Granes Prize” in 2021 for the Migraine Adaptive Brain Center
- Best-in-Class prize in 2022 and 2024 for having the “best” Headache Center in Spain
Research Grants
la Caixa Foundation, European FP7, Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (ISCIII), ERANet Neuron, PERIS grant, FP7, FEDER RIS3CAT, la Marató TV3 Foundation, AGAUR, Mutual Medica, International Headache Society and, the Migraine Research Foundation
Principal investigator of more than 110 clinical trials in phases II, III and IV.
She has directed PhD students and is a PhD student professor, and teaches residents, medical students and other neurologists and doctors.
Her personal leit motiv is to better understand the brain and headache disorders, improve the quality of life of headache sufferers and socially educate professionals, patients and society on how the brain works and interacts with the environment. In order to do this she has promoted and developes a patient/clinician web site (www.midolordecabeza.org) which currently has more than 9,750 registered users and 25,000 facebook followers.