- 08.30-09:00
- Registration and Refreshments
- 09:00-09:15
- Introduction and Overview
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- Dr Paul Shanahan
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- Assessment of Headaches - When to worry?
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- Chair: Dr Manjit Matharu
- 09:15-09:35
- History taking in headache
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- Dr Michael McKenzie
- 09:35-10:10
- Secondary causes of headache
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- Dr Alok Tyagi
- 10:10-10:30
- Investigation of headaches: Who and when?
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- Dr David Watson
- 10:30-11:00
- Refreshments
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- Common Headaches – Migraine and Tension-type Headache
- Chair: Dr Michael McKenzie
- 11:00-11:30
- Diagnosis and pathophysiology of migraine and tension-type headache
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- Dr Brendan Davies
- 11:30-11:50
- Abortive treatments of migraine and tension-type headache
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- Dr Paul Shanahan
- 11:50-12:30
- Preventive treatments of migraine and tension-type headache
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- Dr Manjit Matharu
- 12:30-13:30
- LUNCH
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- Complicating factors and Chronic Daily Headache
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- Chair: Dr David Watson
- 13:30-14:00
- Medication overuse and chronic daily headache: diagnosis and management
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- Dr Brendan Davies
- 14:00-14:40
- Hormonal issues in migraine
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- Dr Giles Elrington
- Patient Groups Presentations
- 14:40-14:45
- Migraine Action
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- Lee Tomkins
- 14:45-14:50
- Migraine Trust
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- Wendy Thomas
- 14:50-14:55
- Organisation for the Understanding of Cluster Headaches (UK)
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- Les Charlton
- 14:55-15:00
- Trigeminal Neuralgia Association (UK)
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- Jillie Abbott
- 15:00-15:30
- Refreshments
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- Less Common Headache Disorders
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- Chair: Dr Brendan Davies
- 15:30-16:00
- Cluster headache and other trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias
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- Dr Manjit Matharu
- 16:00-16:20
- Rare headache syndromes
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- Dr Tim Young
- 16:20-17:15
- Case histories and interactive discussions
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- All Speakers