Professor Rami Burstein, Ph.D. is the John Hedley-Whyte Professor of Anaesthesia and Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School, and Vice Chairman of Neuroscience in the Department of Anaesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  

Professor Burstein is an appointed member of the Scientific Program Committee for the International Headache Conference meeting in 2021 and is a current member of the Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC). He was a member of the Board of Directors of both the American and International Headache Society and the European Headache Federation Meeting in 2018.  

Throughout the years, Professor Burstein has received numerous awards. These include the prestigious Javits Neuroscience Merit Award (National Advisory Neurological Disorder and Stroke Council), the Harold Wolff Awards in 2003 and 2005 (American Headache Society), the Cephalalgia Awards in 2013 and 2015 (International Headache Society), the Seymour Diamond Lectureship Award in 2012 and 2015, and the 2010 Alan Edwards Center for Research on Pain Award (McGill University).

Among Professor Burstein’s accomplishments are the discoveries of the spinohypothalamic tract, the roles of peripheral and central sensitisation in migraine pathophysiology and treatment, the mechanisms of action of several anti-migraine drugs, the neurobiology of photophobia and, most recently, the role of the glymphatic system in migraine.