Journal of Pain & Relief
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Biography

Jean Schoenen, MD, PhD, after graduating from high school “Collège Patronné” in Eupen, has gained his medical degree in 1972 from Liège University. He was for 2 years an International Fogarty Fellow in the departments of Neurology and Neuropathology of the Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School where he obtained certificates in Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuropathology. He is board-certified neurologist since 1979 and holds doctoral and post-doctoral degrees from Liège University. He was Research Director of the National Fund for Scientific Research-Belgium and Clinical Professor in Neurology before taking over Full Professorship at Liège University in 1998. He is acting chairman of the Department of Biomedical and Preclinical Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine – Ulg. His Research work is focused on headache and spinal cord anatomy and pathology. He is leading the Headache Research Unit and Headache Clinic at Liège University. He has 910 publications among which 401 peer-reviewed articles (H index: 56 after 1996), 92 book chapters and 4 books. He is Associate Editor of Cephalalgia and Editor-in-chief of Acta Neurologica Belgica. He is a former President of the International Headache Society and of the Belgian Neurological Society. He is founding past president of the Belgian Brain Council.

Research Interest

Headache
Neuromodulation
Spinal cord anatomy and pathology

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