Event Highlights and General Q&A

Speaker: Prof Tissa Wijeratne

Professor Tissa Wijeratne (OAM, MD, PhD, FRACP, FRSM, FAAN, FAHA, FRCP) serves as the Chair of the Department of Neurology at Western Health, Melbourne, Australia. He is the Co-Founder and Chair of World Brain Day, an initiative that has successfully brought brain health into global focus, making it a household name. His work significantly contributed to the World Health Organization’s definition of brain health and its prioritization of brain health and prevention worldwide.
Prof. Wijeratne is Australia’s most cited practicing headache specialist, with a citation index of 125,000 and an h-index of 80, based on his 356 publications. These achievements are particularly noteworthy given his background as a specialist neurologist from a culturally and linguistically diverse community. He currently supervises 12 PhD students, further advancing research in neurology.

He is also the President of the Asian Regional Consortium of Headache and the Global Chair for Migraine and Headache Disorders at the World Federation for Neurorehabilitation (WFNR).

Speaker: Anniek Grundy

Anniek is the Grants Program Manager & Digital Lead at the Brain Foundation and Migraine & Headache Australia. Since joining the team four years ago, she has written a wide range of articles for our websites and newsletters about brain health, migraine, and other brain disorders. She also looks after the administrative side of our research grants program.

Anniek has been increasingly involved in Migraine & Headache Awareness Week over the years, and has also hosted several webinars for Brain Awareness Week (which takes place in March). She is passionate about the education, advocacy, and support these events provide to the patient community.

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