DR. FRANCIS is a Chief consultant, Headache and Neuroophthalmology services at Teresa eye and migraine Centre, Cherthala Aleppey Kerala South India.
CLINICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- 30 years. PERIORBITAL HEADACHES, MIGRAINE, PEDIATRIC MIGRAINE, VISUAL AURAS, TAC, NEUROIMAGING and NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY.
- Fellowship training in headache by European headache Federation and British Headache Society at Trinity, Cambridge in 2001
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INTERNATIONAL AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
7 international travel awards - American headache society presidents travel award (2001) / International headache society travel award (2002) / International Ophthalmology Congress award / Bursary award by British Headache Society / IASP Travel award (San Diego, USA)
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One of the four core committee members and faculty in the first and second I H S Headache master school in INDIA (2014) to train Indian neurologists
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Modified pediatric migraine diagnostic criteria in London in 2002 (Platform presentation - Migraine Trust International Symposium).
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Presented 8 abstracts (3 platform and 5 posters) in 2004 in the International pediatric headache congress in Vienna. Proposed a new definition of pediatric migraine in Brisbane in 2012 and in Boston IHC in 2013.
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Chair of the special interest group on pediatric headache in the Brisbane Child neurology congress in 2012. Neuroophthalmology expert panel member of All India ophthalmological society and reviewer of free papers and instruction courses in Neuroophthalmology in the National and Asia pacific Ophthal congresses.
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5 abstracts each in the International headache congresses in Philadelphia and Boston. Only research presentation (3 abstracts) from India in the 4th ARCH in Taiwan in 2012.
- Proposed a new definition of migraine without aura (abstract in Cephalalgia and full text article in Journal of headache and pain management)
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EDITOR / REVIEWEREditor Journal of headache and pain management and Journal of anesthesia and pain medicine. Reviewer Annals of Indian academy of Neurology.Chief Editor of the NEWS LETTER - LIFTING THE BURDEN OF HEADACHE
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CHAIR/FACULTYMore than 250 state and national scientific congresses updates and symposiums
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ORGANIZING SECRETARYFour one day headache updates in Kerala, South India
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TEXT BOOK / AUTHOR
- 4 Text book chapters on migraine and Neuroimaging including the most recent one in 2018 - in the text book of Neurology by Indian academy of Neurology
- Author of the book - Neuroimaging in headache disorders – a case based approach (Medilinks Mumbai/ Amazon).