Biography

Rigmor Hoejland Jensen was born in Denmark in 1954. Studied Medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and graduated 1981, qualified as neurologist and as Associate Professor at The University of Copenhagen in 1997. Became full professor in headache and neurological pain at The University of Copenhagen in 2009.
Defended her Doctoral Thesis in 1999 at the University of Copenhagen.
Co-founder of The Danish Headache Center in 2001 and became the director hereof in 2011. The center was awarded as Global Excellence in Health.
Published more than 500 scientific papers and supervised 28 PhD students and more than 50 pre-and postgraduate Master projects.
Prior president of The European Headache Federation, a trustee in The International Headache Society, director in EHMTIC and at present director in Lifting The Global Burden of Headache.
Present areas of research: Management of headache, CSF-physiology, Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and preclinical models, Medication overuse headache and Cluster headache.
Initiated in 2016 an International Academic Master Education in Headache Disorders at University of Copenhagen (www.mhd.ku.dk) together with ass. Professor Henrik Schytz. This 2-year education programme has been very successful, 72 new headache specialists from 30 different countries are already graduated and at present 22 post graduate students, mostly neurologists, are attending our MHD 4.