Biography

Professor Aynur Özge is Professor of Neurology, Algology and Clinical Neurophysiology at Mersin University School of Medicine Department of Neurology in Turkey, an international lecturer, writer, and president of Global Migraine and Pain Summit together with MENA Organisation.

 She is Co-Editor of three international books, two of them about childhood headaches, the other about peripheral interventions in headache medicine.

She has been an active member of IHS since 2004, and has actively served in the Child and Adolescent and Classification committees. She was elected to serve as a Co-opted Board member of the Society for the 2019–2021 term.

Professor Özge has served as the Organising Committee Chair of the 7th International Child-Adolescent Headache Congress held in Istanbul in 2008. She is the Organising Committee Chair of the 4th MENA and 2nd Turkish-African Migraine-Pain Congress, which was held in Antalya in 2020. She is the President of the Global Migraine Pain Summit, established in 2019 to raise social awareness about migraine and painful syndromes.

 Professor Özge's H index score, is 26. She is the author of two public information books which are on sale to benefit various NGOs.

Disclosures

Employment: Mersin University School of Medicine, Mersin, Turkey

Society Leadership/Board position: President Global Migraine and Pain Summit; President Alzheimer Society Mersin Branch and Dementia Special Care Center

Professional membership: Turkish Neurology Society; Turkish Algology Society

Personal fees: Abbvie; Pfizer; Lilly; Nestle Nurtition; İlko Pharmacy; Abdi İbrahim Pharmacy

Royalties/Licences: Springer Nature

Relationship with scientific journals: Cephalalgia; Journal of Headache and Pain; Frontiers in Neurology; MDPI Group; Brain Development; Headache

Commercial interests: None