Mario Peres
MD, PhD, FACP
Medicine
Neurology
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mario Peres is a neurologist, who for the past 20 years has been dedicated to headache research, clinical practice, academic training, and public awareness. He is currently President of ABRACES, a Brazilian headache advocacy association, Secretary of the Brazilian Headache Society, a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Headache Society, and a Professor at the Psychiatry Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Dr Peres has authored and/or co-authored more than 130 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and a book for headache patients. He has been dedicated the past 15 years full-time to the headache field, in clinical practice, academic training, public awareness, and research. Developed a headache medicine E-learning program for health professionals, a headache diary app, and internet content with more than 10 million individual page views in the past years.
He has served as a member of several committees at the International Headache Society and Brazilian Headache Society, currently part of the Ethics Committee, Cluster Headache Study Group, and Headache Classification working group, and is a member of the IHS-GPAC Core Team.