Gudrun Gossrau, MD

Professor of Neurology, Headache and Pain Specialist
Technische Universität Dresden TUD

Gudrun Gossrau, MD, is a professor at the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden and consultant neurologist at its University Hospital, where she directs the Headache Center and serves as vice head of the Interdisciplinary University Pain Center.

She studied medicine at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the University of Ottawa, the University of Western Ontario, and TU Dresden. Since 2014, she has built and led the Headache Center Dresden, establishing it as a leading institution for translational headache research and patient care. Her research focuses on sensory mechanisms in migraine, olfactory influences on pain perception, sex differences in headache disorders, and pediatric headache. For children and adolescents, she founded a pioneering interdisciplinary, multimodal headache therapy program.

Professor Gossrau has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles on headache and pain. She is general secretary of the German Migraine and Headache Society, member of the Annual Program Committee of the German Pain Congress, and serves on the Steering Committee of the German Headache Registry. Her innovative contributions to headache therapy have earned her several distinctions, including the Brand Prize for Innovative Headache Therapy and the MSD Health Award Germany 2024.