Lars Jacob Stovner, MD

President
Norwegian Migraine Society

Dr. Lars Jacob Stovner is someone that us been advocating on our behalf for decades through his work with the World Health Organisation and many other prestigious commissions such as Director of the international NGO “Lifting the Burden: The global campaign against headache”. He was also a partner in the EU project “Eurolight” from 2006 to 2010. Currently he is the Professor of Neurology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Head of the Norwegian National Headache Centre.

He has also been the President of the Norwegian Migraine Society, Co-editor of The Journal of Headache and Pain and Faculty member of the European Brain Council. It is difficult to overstate our guest’s contribution to the field of headache and migraine. He has 236 scientific publications registered in PubMed, 23 Book chapters and has been cited over 16,000 times.