Professor Julio Pascual Gómez MD, PhD

Julio Pascual is currently Director of the University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain. He received his medical degree from the University of Salamanca, Spain. He completed a residency in neurology at the University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla in Santander, Spain, where he was also Staff Neurologist from 1987 to 2005. During this time, he was also Associate Professor of Neurology in the University of Cantabria, Spain. From 2006 to 2009, he was the Chairman of Neurology at the University Hospital of Salamanca and from 2010 and 2015 Director of Neuroscience Department and Professor of Neurology at the University Hospital Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

Professor Pascual has been President of the Headache Group in the Spanish Society of Neurology, Headache Chair of the European Federation of Neurological Societies, Deputy Editor of Neurología and Editor-in-Chief of Revista de Neurología. He is currently Associate Editor of Headache, Headache Currents and the Journal of Headache and Pain. His publications include 13 books, 142 book chapters, 354 original papers and more than 400 congress communications, most of them on headache, his main area of interest. He has received several scientific prizes and awards, such as the Enrico Greppi and the Harry Kaplan.