No increase in headache after previous intracranial infections: a historical cohort study (The Nord-Trøndelag Health Survey)

Abstract

Professor Martelletti is a world-renowned expert clinician and has been a researcher in the field of headache disorders for four decades. His studies have primarily focused on the neuroimmunology of headache disorders, the multifaceted aspects of advances in therapeutics and, more recently, the application of personalised medicine to headache. Professor Martelletti is co-founder and chairman of the World Health Organization (WHO) global campaign against headache, Lifting the Burden, and is European expert for the European Medicines Agency. Between 2014 and 2015 he was president of the Italian Society for the Study of Headache (SISC). He has been, and is currently, an editorial board member for multiple medical journals and has authored close to 200 indexed publications and contributed to over 200 book chapters on topics ranging from headache, rheumatology, pain and internal medicine.