Jean Schoenen
Jean Schoenen (MD, PhD, Board-certified Neurologist) is Honorary Professor at the University of Liège, Belgium, where he gained his medical degree in 1972. He is married and father of 4 children.
He was for 2 years an International Fogarty Fellow in the departments of Neurology and Neuropathology of the Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School where he obtained certificates in Clinical Neurophysiology and Neuropathology.
He also trained in the 1st Anatomy Department of Semmelweiss University-Budapest-Hungary.
He is board-certified neurologist since 1979 and holds doctoral and post-doctoral degrees from Liège University. He was Research Director at the National Fund for Scientific Research-Belgium and Clinical Professor in Neurology before taking over Full Professorship at Liège University in 1998. He is former chairman of the Department of Biomedical and Preclinical Sciences at the Faculty of Medicine – Liège University.
His research has focused on headache and spinal cord anatomy and pathology. He is founder and director the Headache Research Unit at the University Dept of Neurology (Citadelle Hospital).
He has 1035 publications among which 495 peer-reviewed articles, 435 abstracts, 101 book chapters, 4 books and he owns one patent (H index: 95; citations 35,117; i10 index: 361).
He was Associate Editor of Cephalalgia and Editor-in-Chief of Acta Neurologica Belgica. He is a former President of the International Headache Society, the European Headache Federation, the Belgian Neurological Society and the Belgian Headache Society. He is Founding Past President of the Belgian Brain Council.
He is Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology and has received 21 international or National Prizes/Awards.
