Video message from Emeritus Professor David Dodick MD, Patron, Australian Institute of Migraine

David W Dodick, MD, FRCP (C), FACP, is Professor of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and a consultant in neurology at the Mayo Clinic, in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is the Director of the Headache Program and the Sports Neurology and Concussion Program at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. Dr Dodick is board certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). He also holds United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties certification in headache medicine and ABPN certification in vascular neurology.

Dr Dodick has authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications and authored/edited 10 books. He is the Chair of the Sports Concussion Conference Workgroup and the AAN Annual Sports Concussion Conference of the American Academy of Neurology and a member of the AAN’s Annual Meeting Committee. He is a member of the scientific committee of the International Migraine Trust. He is Chair of the International Headache Academy. He is on the editorial board of several journals including Lancet Neurology, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Postgraduate Medicine, Headache, and Cephalalgia.

He is Past-President of the International Headache Society, Past President of the American Headache Society, Chair of the American Migraine Foundation, Director of the US Academic Headache Consortium, and past-Editor-in-Chief of Cephalalgia.

He is a strong support of Prof Tissa Wijeratne, Founder,AIM for well over a decade with annual Lance-Goadsby Symspoium ( fifth year in 2022) and many other academic activities. He co-chair the World Brain Day campaign with Prof Tissa Wijeratne at present.