Celebrating 25 years of the Children’s Headache Clinic at GOSH: Scientific Meeting

Event Notes:

The clinic is the first dedicated children’s headache clinic in England, opened by the Late Dr Sarah Benton alongside Professor Peter Goadsby in 1999. From serving 20 children a year, the clinic now serves 200 and includes sub-specialist clinics for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Chiari Malformation, Trigeminal Neuralgia and Facial Pain, Neuromodulation including Greater Occipital Nerve Blocks and a transition clinic with Kings-GSTT.

Scientific meeting:

In this meeting, GOSH colleagues past and present will explore the latest advances in the treatment of children with headaches and migraines. Professor Goadsby will open the occasion with the 1^st Dr Sarah Benton Memorial Lecture on Childhood Headaches, with a keynote on Understanding Migraine and Its New Therapies. Other sessions include Recent advances in Visual Snow Syndrome, Lessons from the IIH/Neuro-ophthalmology Clinic, Psychological care in headaches, Chiari Malformation and Headaches in Children and more. For those able to attend in person, a celebratory occasion will take place during the lunchtime for meeting attendees, young people and their families, and GOSH colleagues who have contributed to the service over the years.

Learning objectives:

• To explore the latest advances in the specialism
• To gain an understanding of the unique multidisciplinary model of the clinic, and the effectiveness of the MDT approach in headache care

Who should attend?

• Doctors, nurses and the MDT who specialise in (or have an interest in) paediatric neurology