Biography
Dr Jan Hoffmann is a Clinical Reader at King's College London and a Honorary Consultant in Neurology at King's College Hospital. He qualified at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany) where he also obtained his doctoral degree. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Francisco he worked at the Headache Center at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf before he relocated to London to his current position.
Dr Hoffmann is an internationally recognised specialist in Headache and Facial Pain Disorders. He has published extensively in the field including the European Headache Federation treatment guidelines for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH). Currently he serves as an Associate Editor for Cephalalgia, the Journal of Oral & Facial Pain and Headache, as well as for Frontiers in Pain Research. Dr Hoffmann is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Headache Society (IHS). Within the International Headache Society he also serves as a member of the Science and Research Committee and the Emerging Therapies Special Interest Group. He also serves as Council Member and Treasurer of the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH).