Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas is a Professor of Neurology at the Aeginition Hospital, School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece, head of the Headache Outpatient Department and Ward A of Emergency Neurology and Stroke. He is a member of the Management Group of the Headache Scientific Group and a member of the Coordinating Committee for Functional Neurological Disorder at the European Academy of Neurology. He serves as President of the Hellenic Headache Society. He is former President of the Executive Board of the European Headache Federation.

His clinical and experimental work focuses on headaches, placebo/nocebo, and multiple sclerosis (MS), and he has lectured nationally and internationally on these topics. He is involved in several clinical trials for headaches and MS. He has authored more than 220 peer-reviewed papers with more than 25,000 citations (h-index 56) and served as editor/co-editor of eight textbooks. He currently works as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Headache and Pain and Frontiers in Neurology, and is a Reviewer and/or Member of the Advisory Boards of several international peer-reviewed medical journals. He is also a member of several national and international societies.

Prof. Mitsikostas graduated from the School of Medicine of Aristotle’s University, Thessaloniki, Greece and obtained his PhD in experimental neuropharmacology from NKUA, Greece. Certified in Neurology at Aeginition Hospital, NKUA, Greece. His postdoctoral studies focused on experimental molecular pharmacology of cephalic pain at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA and at the Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK. Before moving to NKUA, he served as head of the Neurology Department of the Athens Naval Hospital, in the Hellenic Navy.