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Addendum
Curriculum Vitae
Judith Pijpers was born on September 27th 1989 in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands. She attended the Groene Hart Lyceum in Alphen aan den Rijn for pre-university education, and graduated cum laude in 2007. She had always felt the ambition to study Medicine, but her feeling for research was encouraged during a pre-university summer research internship on Multiple Sclerosis in the Weizmann institute in Israel in 2007.
She started her medical studies in the same year at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC). During her studies, she received a grant from the LUMC to initiate PhD research during the bachelor, participating in the field of medication overuse headache and related psychiatric comorbidity. After graduating, she extended her PhD research, studying the clinical course and pathophysiology of chronic migraine under supervision of prof. Gisela Terwindt and prof. Michel Ferrari. Her research focuses on risk factors for migraine chronification, such as medication overuse, and involves different modalities to study chronification pathophysiology. Another important focus is the treatment of chronic migraine, for which she combined her PhD research with a clinical position in the LUMC headache clinic.
Whilst finalizing her thesis, she worked as a medical doctor in the Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis, Delft (January 2018 – September 2018) and HagaZiekenhuis, The Hague (October 2018 – September 2019) on the neurology department. She continued to work as a medical doctor in the LUMC, and started her training to become a clinical neurologist in 2020.