Biography

Sait Ashina, MD is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. He is a Director of the Comprehensive Headache Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is board-certified in Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and in Headache Medicine by United Council for Neurological Subspecialties. Dr. Ashina  is a member of the Education Committee of the International Headache Society. Dr. Ashina also served as a member of the International Headache Society headache classification subcommittee for the latest edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders. He serves on Advisory Board for the Journal of Headache and Pain  and is an Associated Editor of and BMC Neurology, Frontiers of Neurology, and Neurology Reviews. He is training, mentoring, and educating students, residents, and fellows at Harvard Medical School. He is the recipient of the Enrico Greppi Award for excellence in headache research. Dr. Ashina is is currently engaged in several research projects at Harvard Medical School. His research interests include the epidemiology of headache and chronic pain, quantitative sensory testing, human pain models, brain imaging and structural brain lesions in migraine, migraine, and vestibular dysfunction, the implication of photophobia in pathophysiology, and treatment of migraine. He is an investigator of clinical trials in migraine, including clinical trials involving novel treatments in migraine.

Disclosures

Professional membership: American Headache Society (involved in SIGs–Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Post-traumatic Headache, TMD, Cervical Spine & Orofacial Pain); International Association for the Study of Pain; Headache Cooperative of New England American Academy of Neurology; Danish Headache Society

Personal fees: Honoraria for consulting for Abbvie/Allergan, Eli Lilly, Linpharma, Lundbeck, Teva, Theranica, Percept, Pfizer, Impel NeuroPharma

Research support: Unrestricted research grants to institution from Teva, Eli Lilly

Clinical trials involvement: Site principal investigator for NCT04686136, NCT05216263

Relationship with scientific journals: Editorial Board Journal of Headache and Pain; Harvard Health Blog Contributing Editor; Associate Editor BMC Neurology, Neurology Reviews, Frontiers in Neurology (Headache and Neurogenic Pain)

Commercial interests: None