Biography

Mi Ji (Miji) Lee, MD, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Sungkyunkwan University in Korea. She has been working as a headache specialist in the Neurology department of Samsung Medical Center and actively performing research on headache disorders.

Dr. Lee obtained her MD, summa sum laude, at the Sungkyunkwan University. She completed the Neurology residency and 3-year fellowship in the field of stroke and headache in Samsung Medical Center.
She is an associate academic director of Korean Headache Society. She has served as a Juniors Group member of International Headache Society.

She received several research awards and grants. She received Hyangseol young investigator award for the distinguished research performance in neurology and LG future medical investigator award for having highest research performance in the whole medical field in Korea. She has been selected as a rising researcher by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, which nominates investigators having outstanding research performance in the whole science field. She got research grants from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea and the Korean Society of Neurosonology.

She authored more than 100 papers, abstracts, and book chapters on the topic of headache and stroke. Her research interests include migraine, cluster headache, RCVS, pressure-related headache, and other primary and secondary headaches. In addition to several investigator-initiated studies completed or ongoing, she acted as a site PI of phase III trials of anti-CGRP monoclonal antibodies. She is working on several international collaborative projects on migraine, cluster headache, and RCVS.

Disclosures

Employment: Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine Society Leadership/Board position: Assistant Academic Director, Korean Headache Society Professional membership: Korean Neurological Association, Korean Stroke Society, Korean Headache Society, Korean Neurocritical Care Society, Korean Society of Neurosonology Personal fees: Honoraria–Lilly, GSK, Sanofi-Aventis, YuYu Pharma Research support: Yuhan Company, Nueyne Co. (all to institution) Advisory Board: Eli Lilly Clinical trials involvement: Yuhan Company Relationship with scientific journals: Editorial board–Cephalalgia, Frontiers in Neurology