Harvard Catalyst Profiles

University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark	MD	06/2002	Medicine
Bispebjerg Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark		2005	Internship, Medicine and Surgery
Hospital of Saint Raphael, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA		2006	Internship, Medicine
Montefiore Headache Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA		2007	Fellowship, Headache Research and Clinical Fellowship
Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA		2010	Residency, Neurology

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 affiliated with Harvard Medical School. 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 graduated from the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences. He completed a residency in neurology at Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a clinical and research fellowship in Headache Medicine at Montefiore Headache Center and at Danish Headache Center. He is Board Trustee of the International Headache Society and 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 Cephalalgia, Frontiers in Neurology, Neurology Reviews and BMC Neurology. 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 actively involved in research and has numerous publications. He 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 trigeminal neuralgia and migraine, including clinical trials involving novel treatments in migraine.

• Migraine
• Headache
• Tension-type headache
• Cluster headache
• Epidemiology
• Trigeminal Neuralgia