Christoph Schankin is working as attending physician for the headache outpatient clinic, the emergency department and the neurological consult service at the Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern in Switzerland. He has published more than 40 original papers and is further involved in several local and international clinical research studies on headache, visual disturbances in migraine as well as emergency neurology.