Jérôme Mawet, MD

Neurologist & Headache Specialist
Emergency Headache Center, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris

Jérôme Mawet is a neurologist at the Emergency Headache Center in Lariboisière, Paris. He is also known as doc.migraine on Instagram, where he aims to increase knowledge and awareness on migraine and headache for patients and those around them.

He became a board-certified neurologist in Liege, Belgium, in 2008 and obtained the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) European master in stroke medicine at the Donau University, Krems, Austria in 2009. He obtained a French inter-university diploma in 2013 specializing in migraine and headache and is now part of its teaching team.

In 2012, after a clinical fellowship in stroke in Lariboisière, Paris, he joined the team at the Emergency Headache Center, which each year receives around 10,000 admissions of patients with acute headache of various causes. In 2013-2014, he completed a one-year research fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston on the interaction between headache and stroke.

Because of his dual training in stroke and headache, he has special interest in vascular headache, migraine, and the interaction between migraine and stroke.