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resident of Kuwait Neurology Society, Consultant at Neurology Department, Ibn Sina Hospital, MOH, Kuwait
It gives me an immense pleasure to invite you all to our Second Kuwait Headache Day Conference to be held on 15th February 2025 at Four-season Hotel Kuwait. Kuwait Headache Day is a comprehensive CME-accredited event aiming to discuss the most up-to-date scientific discoveries & practices in the field of Headaches and Migraines. Kuwait Headache Day will bring together regional senior medical professionals, distinguished scholars, government, and private sector medical professionals from the State of Kuwait, the Gulf Co-operation Council region, and the Arabian countries who are involved in the field of Headache Management.
We request all of you to participate in this conference and make it a great success We look forward to welcoming you all again to the KHD Conference.
Please mark your calendar for above dates and I wish you all a very successful Conference.
Yours Sincerely,
Prof. Jasem Al-Hashel Consultant Neurologist and Headache Specialist Professor of Neurology at Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine in Kuwait Board certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) and had also American fellowship in Headache Medicine (FAHS) and a Canadian fellowship in Headache Medicine from McGill University Chair of the faculty of Neurology in Kuwait and the President of the Kuwait Neurological Society and the Vice President of the Pan Arab Union of Neuroscience (PAUNS) Has more than 70 publications in the field of Neurology and author of a chapter on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in an International Neurology book, Second edition.
Simona Sacco is professor of Neurology at the University of L’Aquila in Italy and Director of the local Clinical Neurology and Stroke Unit. Dr. Sacco is author of more than 270 publications in the field of stroke and headache. She is the president elect of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) and second vice-president of the European Headache Federation (EHF). She has extensive editorial activity; starting from January 2024 she will be the Editor-in-Chief of Cephalalgia; she is assistant editor for Stroke, member of the editorial board of Neurology, European Stroke Journal and International Journal of Stroke. She has chaired the EHF Guideline on the use of monoclonal antibodies targeting the CGRP for migraine prevention, the EHF consensus on resistant and refractory migraine and the EHF consensus on triptan non-responders.
Senior specialist at Jaber Al Ahmad hospital
Kuwaiti board of neurology
Canadian headache fellowship
Dr. Saja Abualbanat
Senior Neurologist at Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital.
Clinical tutor of adult neurology and internal medicine, KIMS.
Doctor of medicine (MD), Kuwait University.
Kuwaiti board of Neurology, KNB.
MRCP Neurology.
Graduate of the college of Medicine, Kuwait University
Fourth yeat neurology resident in the Kuwait Neurology Board (KNB)
MBBS from University of East Anglia
MSc in Clinical Neuroscience from Kings College London
Current Neurology Residency at Kuwait Neurology program
Currently Registrar at Neurology department (PGY-4 at KNB)
MD, graduate of College of Medicine, Kuwait University.
Kuwait Neurology board resident, PGY3
Saturday, 15th Feb 2025
11:00AM - 12:00PM
12:00PM - 12:05PM
12:05PM - 12:30PM
Prof. Simona Sacco 
12:30PM - 12:55PM
Dr. Khalifa Al Shaiji 
12:55PM - 01:15PM
Prof. Jasem Al Hashel
Sponsored by Pfizer
01:15PM - 01:40PM
Dr. Saja Abualbanat
01:40PM - 02:00PM
60 minutes
03:00PM - 03:25PM
Prof. Simona Sacco
03:25PM - 03:45PM
Prof. Naji J Riachi 
Sponsored by AbbVie
03:45PM - 04:10PM
Prof. Simona Sacco
05:05PM - 05:25PM
Prof. Jasem Al-Hashel
Sponsored by Lundbeck
04:30PM - 04:50PM
15 minutes
05:05PM - 05:30PM
Dr Faye AlAbdulghafour
Dr. Ohood Almutairi
Dr. Ayat H. Al-Duwaikhi
05:30PM - 06:10PM
Prof. Jasem Al Hashel
15 minutes
